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that you can grow your visibility on the net and your business with a small
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tip #2
If you do not have a domain name
consider purchasing one that has been in existence for a few years.
Buying an expired domain name is
fast growing in popularity as a strategy used to increase web traffic as well
as online profits. An expired domain is one whose previous owner has not
renewed ownership of it due to various reasons. These domains are then re-cast
into the market online for sale. Buying an expired domain name, you can
gain immediate page rank and "link popularity". In other words,
you can capitalize on what the previous site accomplished. In this way,
expired domain names may help you start out closer to the top of serch engine
results pags rather than spending time and money clawing your way from the
bottom.
Approval of
Google®
Did the
previous site stay on Google's good side? If it violated any of Google's strict
guidelines -- including those against reciprocal linking or serial spamming --
it could be difficult (if not impossible) for you to get indexed on the search
engine's results pages. Even emails linked to your domain will be
blocked.
You can
check domain names in the Google cache, a public, online tool that allows you
to see what version of a page is currently in its index. Simply enter
"cache:domainname.com" in the Google search box and you'll see a
snapshot of the site taken by Google the last time it crawled the Web. This
version of the site was used to generate the index results – if you can't find
it, there could be a problem.
Most importantly you should have a
name that has the keywords that your potential customer would most likely be
using.
What about the name
stlouisweddingcakes.com This name is not in use
What about the names denvercondos.com
This name is not in use
**remember you cannot use the word
realtor in your web name!
What about luxuryhomesinDenver.com
this name is in use
The name luxuryhomesincolorado.com is
being used
One of the sites you can find expired
names or names being offered for sale is namejet.com an example of a name found
available today was "loanspoorcredit.com which is a pretty good name
for someone in the loan business. This name has no value as it was never
used. There are 12 people bidding for the name and the high bid is $70.
The name will be available today. I also found oceanfrontrental.biz with
one bidder at $69 which is available today. This name would do you no benefit
as it is not a site that has ever been used.
Many times people purchase domain
names only to resell them and you gain nothing except the name, which might have
some keyword value but will not help with gaining any links or page rank.
This is not an easy process to get a
good domain name that will immediately be found by the search engines such as
Google.
I made the mistake
of taking the names SaintLouisPainting.com while Saint, Louis, and
Painting are my good keywords; I failed to realize at the time that most people
use the abbreviation St instead of using the full word Saint. I have
overcome the mistake I explain how I solved this in the advance tip at the
bottom of this blog.
You have an idea
for a name! Go to http://www.whois.com and enter
the name.
For example my
website is www.saintlouispainting.com an press enter. The offer available similar names. Names no in
use. For more data click whois. You will see that I am the registrant and
that I am hosted on godaddy.com. Again by going to godaddy.com and
entering my domain name they will show you some suggestions.
Summary today!
It is very
important to choose a domain name with the keywords which relate to your
business.
If you purchase an
expired or name supposedly used before chck it out to make sure that it truly
has value with possible page rank and established links.
For those of you
more advanced
I use St Louis in my title, my meta title, and my meta keywords