ByYesterday I had a conversation with Jauhari about choosing domain name. The domain I pursued is already bought by other and will be expired in 2010 🙁 . Therefore I have to find other domain that is meet with my requirements.
SEOMoz has 12 rules to choose the right domain name for your brand new website, here is for the resume:
- Brainstorm 5 Top Keywords
- Make the Domain Unique
- Only Choose Dot-Com Available Domains
- Make it Easy to Type
- Make it Easy to Remember
- Keep the Name as Short as Possible
- Create and Fulfill Expectations
- Avoid Copyright Infringement
- Set Yourself Apart with a Brand
- Reject Hyphens and Numbers
- Don’t Follow the Latest Trends
- Use an Ajax Domain Selection Tool
In the other side Problogger writes about choosing brandable domain name or keyword rich domain name.
Because I do not have much money to pay advertising to promote my brand to get traffics, I decide to use keyword rich domain name to get visitors referred by search engine. The web is still under development. I will do a research after the domain and the website available on the net and share the result with you.
Meanwhile, would you please share your reason on choosing domain name? It will be a nice topic.
Thanks.
I pretty much have all these down except for ‘.com’ and rejecting hyphens. But honestly, ‘juicyflawless.com’ just doesn’t look as nice as ‘juicy-flawless.org’ :d
nice post thanks
There are so many reason for people on choosing domain. I had an experience dealing with domain.com and domain.net. Domain.com is owned by competitor while domain.net is mine. So it will be disaster if my customer send inquiry to: [email protected] instead of [email protected]. When I asked why he sent to [email protected], he said “I think your domain is .com”
And yes, it was a disaster 😀
great stuff. thanks for sharing 🙂
Nice Post!
I also wrote a post on the same topic, covering 18 Tips for choosing a good domain name. You can find it at the following location.
http://www.webspear.com/domain-names/18-tips-for-choosing-a-good-domain-name/
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thanks for the information.Nice post. 🙂
12 nice suggestions. I’ve got one more: Make it easy to spell. A URL like “supercalifragilistic.com” — magic as it sounds — would be more trouble than it’s worth. This is related to the URL being easy to transcribe from spoken word to spelled word. Like, if someone hears the URL, will they know it’s “yore.com” and not “your.com” or “youre.com”?
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Good post.
For our domain, we picked TheBrewClub Can you guess what my site is? We review beers.
The better names are often taken already, and a lot of times you can do “pretty good” with a domain name, not perfect. Certainly, it’s a lot easier to get ahead if the tips above are followed, but if not, all is not lost!
salam kenal bos.. lagi belajar mengenal blog nih .
makasih banyak info nya ya bos.. terima kasih.