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Jul '09

What a Good Domain Is?

After you know the benefit of get your site hosted in some web server. That paying the hosting is better than using a free service. Now, more about our site we should take care of is about the domain name and also hosting service. Both of the domain name and the hosting service must be a good choice to fulfill what you need. But at this post I will only write about how to choose a good domain name for your site, because that case alone will lead this post to become a long bad words arrangement. So, here is the point you should think :

1. The Name Itself

The first thing you should take care is the name it self. A domain, that become a name of a site is should be not too long. Some people said that no more that 7 letters if possible. Take a short name is one of an essential things, because it will make all of your site reader easier to remember it. Everyone will feel free to re-enter our domain name when they need something in our site, they won’t get any trouble because our domain name is short and easy to be stored at their brain.

2. Keyword Rich Name

As far as we can, when we make a decision to make a site, there must be a plan about what the content of our site. We should be focused at things we know, so that our site content can become a high quality posts. One example is when our site will take care about Adobe Photoshop, about effect tutorial and retouching process maybe. Our site keyword on the lately day when you has build your site is photoshop, effect, tutorial and retouching maybe. It will be a good try to you to use a domain name that using that keywords like photoshopeffecttutorial.com or photoshopretoucingtutorial.com or some others you preffer.

It looks like very different with what I said at the first point, this looks too long. But it works I tell you. That name is better because when someone want to find a site about Adobe Photoshop effect tutorial and insert the entire term to the search engine box’s, your site will have a bigger chance to stay on top even your content is still not become the bigger on the web. Your keyword at your domain will make you one step ahead to be success.

3. Use Your Name

Using your name as your domain is also a good deal, it will increase the sense of owning. This method is much more needed to be used at a company, public figure, organization, artist or maybe an official site of a movie. It will lead more visitor to come to the right site, because when they want to ask about one product, then search it using google, the first site on the list is the site company of the product itself. Despite of it also fulfill the second point I note, include the keyword at the domain name.

Other benefit of using your name or institution name is about giving you closer stance of building your image in front of search engines. Having an image or trademark related to you will be more useful to take SEO easier.

4. Using .com at first

Try to check wether a .com domain for the name that you want is available also become and issue here. Why? Just because .com is the first TLD [Top Level Domain] ever created by human. So if there is a possibility of your reader forget your site extension the first thing they guess is .com. Not .net, .org or even more.info. But you must compromise it with your budget to :D Because as long as I know .com is a little more expensive than .info and some other specific country TLD. But you should remember about the difference of that extension too. Every extension showing it’s own purpose.

5. Using hymen.

Some people said that using hymen at full keyword domain name I write at the second point also useful for SEO. It will be more identified as keywords by search engine spider’s. Even it also still become a big debate cause some webmaster said that to much keyword and hymen at your domain name can indicate that it was a spammer site. Beside it will increase the risk of getting error to remember it.

6. The last, ask people around you.

When you get some names at your pocket it will be a good idea to ask people around you about which one looks like the best name. Because the will feel that name as what your reader will feel it.

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