S.E.O

Search Engine Friendly Domain

07.10.2006. 01:30

Finding the right domain name can either make you or break you. Think of all that type in traffic that is generated every day. Type in traffic is when someone types a work in the url space of your browser. This is then sent, most often than not, it is directly redirected to a .com domain.

Finding expired domain names might also be of interest to users that are looking for allready existing traffic. But beware, most often than not, these expired domain names will have been expired for such a long time that they will not generate any traffic at all.

When you first start an Internet business one of the first items on the list, after you've written your business model, is getting a domain name. In years past it wasn't as difficult to find a decent name for your site. Today, however, it's not as easy to get your dot com name. The process of registering a name has improved substantially but the availability for descriptive names is far more difficult. Why is this a problem you may ask? It's more of a problem for small and home business sites than it is for larger companies. The reason is simple and I can sum it up in one word: money.

Larger companies, especially public companies, have the funding to advertise their new sites; therefore, they don't really need to have names that reflect the type of business they are in. I can cite a perfect example, Go Daddy.com, has absolutely nothing to do with the type of business Go Daddy is in. But being the largest register of domain names, GoDaddy can advertise on all media levels to get business, including buying advertising time on the Super Bowl! If you are starting a home based business on the Internet, I'll bet that you won't be buying time on television not to mention next year's Super Bowl.

Okay, where am I going with all of this? You are on a limited budget when you start your business and you must rely on free traffic to your site, because without traffic you have no business. This is what I described in my article on organic traffic a few weeks ago. In order to get substantial traffic to your site, you'll need to have an optimized site. This all has to do with keywords and something called keyword density. You achieve this by having your most important keywords dispersed throughout your website and your domain name. (See, I did come to the point of this article.)

Most SEO, search engine optimization, programs first look at the domain name and your major keywords. They look to see if your domain name and site title have any commonality. If they do, your site receives extra points in the SEO algorithm (a logical step-by-step procedure for solving a mathematical problem in a finite number of steps, often involving repetition of the same basic operation). I hope that I haven't lost you here because all of this is very important, especially to home based Internet business owners.

Most SEO programs will constantly refer back to the domain name and those words that match the dominant keyword phrases that you have chosen. When your site is optimized, search engines will pick up your scent, so to speak; and you will have great placement and positioning on searches that have your keywords. All of this amounts to substantial traffic.

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