How to select a domain name?
November 29th, 2006 by admin
1) TLD .com is the commercial TLD and most widely used TLD. Even a newbie can understand what .coms stands for. If some one wants to go to some site then naturally type in the site name and .com extension after it. What happened if .com is not available? I would suggest to go with .net or if you are website giving information you may considering .info as well.
2) Keyword Itself The keyword means the domain itself. If it is basketball or sports then great. If it is greatestsports then it is weaker compared to the sport or sports. Keywords used for the domain name itself are very helpful to establish a brand and market it easily.
3) OVT The overture data shows the number of searches performed on that particular keyword. So it gives a basic idea that what kind of traffic to be expected if we build a site on this kind of domain name. Overture Keyword Selector Tool is commonly used by webmasters to find the keywords that has been searching in the particular months.
4) Length Of Domain The shorter the better, still using a good key word that is. Something like www .jkpq.com is hard to remember, and won’t do squat for search engines, because nobody searches “jkpq” unless they’re looking that domain name for fun. Shorter domain names are harder to come across on your own, because a lot of them have been taken up. A longer one won’t hurt you, but you don’t want www. visitmywesitebecauseitsgivesknowledgethatyoudontknowbefore.com.
5) Dictionary If it is a dictionary word then it is good, because normally dictionary word have amazing results in search engines.
6) Pronounceable If the domain is pronounceable then it will be easy for the users to memorize it and so more and more users can return to your site without going and searching it every time. This also helps establishing a brand name in the market.
7) Brand able Now if the domain is not even pronounceable and doesn’t have any major TLD then it will be very hard to brand it. The best example as I mentioned above can be google.com Because google didn’t had any meaning some years ago. But now every one knows what google means. Some examples for brandable domains can be like juhy.com, vhuv.com etc.
8) Singular or Plural Now if the domain name is a singular one then it will get more price then the plural version of that particular domain name. Like reddot.com is better then reddots.com Some times there is an exception in this kind of domains also. EX: LatestGadgets.com is better then LatestGadget.com Because the End user wants to see gadgets not a single gadget.
9) Google results Some people also see google results for a given name. Now this also doesn’t has any relation with the domain name google will just show you the results of the pages which contains that particular word. This can be helpful to do some SEO afterwards though.
Johan Ng