| This is how to choose a domain name to help you | | | | out if these keywords have low numbers of results. |
| with making money from your blog or website. | | | | 8. As mentioned before, the AdWords keyword tool |
| First, and most importantly, you need to choose a | | | | will show you what people are bidding on pay per |
| topic for your website. Pick a niche you know | | | | click advertising for these keywords. Ideally, your |
| something about, and you won't mind working a few | | | | new site will have a balance of high and low cost |
| hours a week on indefinitely. Most websites fail | | | | keywords. The high cost keywords will be used for |
| because people simply lose interest and stop working | | | | pages you will monetize with AdSense. The low cost |
| on them. | | | | keywords you can use for your own PPC advertising. |
| There are two good ways to find domain names. | | | | These low-cost keywords will be especially useful for |
| First, the most effective, requires paid tools. This | | | | landing pages should you promote an affiliate product |
| article, however, will outline free tools you can use to | | | | from Clickbank, if you create your own products to |
| find a great domain. | | | | sell, or if you want to have an advertising campaign |
| Choosing a Domain Name: A Free Method | | | | to get people to sign up for your newsletter. |
| 1. Go to the Google AdWords external keyword tool. | | | | 9. The next thing to consider before registering a |
| You can simply search Google for "keyword" and it | | | | domain name is how exactly you will monetize your |
| comes right up in the search results. | | | | site. Selling your own products is always the best |
| 2. Search for a keyword you are interested in building | | | | way to go, but you can make plenty of money |
| a site about. | | | | without your own products. Look on ClickBank for |
| 3. Under 'columns' add the estimated cost per click, | | | | products related to your niche that have high gravity, |
| so you can see what people are paying for their ads | | | | nice sales pages, and newsletter opt-ins. Also look on |
| to appear for different keywords. Instead of viewing | | | | eBay and Amazon for physical products that are |
| results by 'relevancy' you can also choose to see | | | | available. Search the web for additional affiliate |
| keywords listed based on global search volume. | | | | programs. If there are multi-tier affiliate programs |
| 4. Open another tab in your browser and search | | | | available with repeating commissions for memberships |
| Google for the keywords that interest you. Look for | | | | or repeated sales, you are even more likely to turn a |
| keywords that have under a million results. Under half | | | | profit from your new site. |
| a million, even better. Under 100,000, super. But again, | | | | 10. Now go for it, register your domain name on your |
| you want to make sure there will be enough | | | | registrar of choice. |
| searches that will bring traffic to your site, otherwise | | | | Why Register Exact Keyword Domains? |
| you will make no money. | | | | By registering domain names that match keyword |
| 5. There are a number of browser addons you can | | | | searches exactly, you will get a boost in the search |
| use, especially in Firefox, to see the Google | | | | engines from the very start - your site might even |
| PageRank and Alexa score of sites that appear in the | | | | rank somewhere on pages 1-3 before you begin |
| search results. If all of the listings on pages one and | | | | building content. This is not the case when you |
| two have high PageRank and low Alexa score, you | | | | pluralize the keyword, add a word like "best" or other |
| will be better off picking a different keyword to | | | | one-off words in the domain name. Whenever |
| target. If, however, you see listings for articles on | | | | possible, register the exact keywords, nothing more |
| sites like EzineArticles.com, Buzzle.com, or on blogs at | | | | and nothing less, in your domain name. |
| WordPress.com, blogger.com, lenses on Squidoo or | | | | But What About Used Domains? |
| HubPages, you can likely compete for that keyword. | | | | If you have a domain name already that has valid |
| 6. Once you have a list of possible keywords, go to | | | | PageRank, and is at least somewhat related to your |
| a free domain name suggestion tool. There are | | | | new site's topic, you could use this instead of |
| several such sites that you will find with a web | | | | registering a new domain name. |
| search. Search for available domain names using your | | | | But for best results I suggest that you go ahead and |
| keywords. Ideally you want a domain name with the | | | | register a domain name with your exact keywords in |
| exact keywords, without hyphenation, and only | | | | it, then redirect your domain or domains with |
| with.com,.org, or.net top level domain extensions. | | | | PageRank to your new site. That way you will send |
| 7. By now you have narrowed your list of possibilities | | | | the PR to the new site, and the keyword domain will |
| for your new domain name. Go back to the | | | | increase your site's relevancy in Google results. |
| AdWords keyword tool and search for more long-tail | | | | Follow these methods for how to choose a domain |
| keywords related to your main keyword. These will | | | | name, and you are well on your way to making |
| be the topics of pages and categories in your | | | | money with your blog! |
| website or blog. Again, use a Google search to find | | | | |