| If you want to learn how to buy domain names and | | | | so get both. Buy a domain name with your business |
| make money, look no further. Here are some tips. | | | | and buy one with your product name in it. Believe |
| I think the first question you should ask yourself is if | | | | me, you won't regret it. |
| this is for business or pleasure? Fun or profit? And if | | | | What about hyphens (or dashes) in a website domain |
| your answer is both, it might as well be business! For | | | | name? Although many don't care for the look of a |
| if you want to make a profit, it's business. | | | | hyphenated website name, it has been my |
| Whether your aim is to set up your own domain, buy | | | | experience in some small-scale testing that |
| a domain name to resell, or set up a website to flip, | | | | hyphenated domain names were indexed a little |
| the next questions to answer is what is the product | | | | faster by the search engines. As I said earlier, since |
| or service you are selling? | | | | domain names are so inexpensive, I would buy both |
| Your domain should include the name of your product | | | | if you can. You can redirect one to the other and |
| or service. You may have a great business name, | | | | avoid losing any traffic. You can use the whatever |
| and if you're lucky it is also your product or service | | | | version of the domain name you prefer as your |
| name. If the two aren't the same, go for the product | | | | primary website address. If you use the |
| or service name. | | | | non-hyphenated name, I would capitalize the first |
| Search engine optimization (SEO) experts will tell you | | | | letter of each word to aid readability. |
| that most search engines will favor a website that | | | | Which domain should I use? .com .org .net .info .biz |
| includes the keyword or search term in the domain | | | | something else? A country domain? |
| name. Frequently the keyword or search is highlighted | | | | Well the gold standard is a .com domain, but some |
| on the results page which draws attention to your | | | | people have made clever use of other domains. For |
| website name if it includes the keyword or search | | | | example, del.icio.us used the United States .us country |
| term. | | | | domain to make a word. Delicious eh? Some radio |
| So if you must have a website domain name with | | | | stations are using .fm which is the country code for |
| your business name, that's fine. But go ahead and | | | | Federated States of Micronesia. .tv is the country |
| have a website domain name with your product in it | | | | code for Tuvalu which as you might imagine is useful |
| as well. You can buy domain names relatively cheap, | | | | for TV or video-related websites. |