What else you can done with your site? What can you learn about monetizing…or just hang aroundthere and socialize and monetize..
The internet has evolved dramatically over the last decade in terms of how people end up at your site. Still, your domain name remains a vital cog in your marketing strategy. Here are 8 tips for choosing the right domain name in today’s online world.
- Use Killer Keywords: Think about it – GoDaddy would never choose GoDaddy if they started today! Who would search for “godaddy” hoping to find a domain name purchasing site, if they hadn’t already heard of GoDaddy? Think through the key words or phrases related to what you have to offer, and then put them together in memorable combinations and begin searching for available domain names. The exception to the rule is that if you have millions of dollars to invest in advertising your domain name, then choose whatever the heck you want!
- Go with “.com” or Forget it: Maybe in five years this principle will change, but for now, .com’s still rule. People hear the domain name and fuzz out on the “dot part”, since it remains ingrained that everything worth remembering is a .com. If you are using a .org or .net, you are losing tons of traffic to the .com name you are mimicking. Better a good .com domain name than what you think is a great dot-anything else. This rule holds until further notice.
- Make it Memorable: When you’re driving along, listening to the radio, you may hear the name of a website you want to check out from a commercial or talk show. You think, “oh yeah, I’ll remember that…no need to write it down.” An hour later it is gone from the memory banks because it wasn’t deposited there with enough memory force. Memory force is vital. Choose a domain name that uses a keyword in a memorable way: HostGator, TiresWorld, JobsFinder, LoanToday, etc.
- KISS your Domain Name: You know what that stands for – Keep it Simple…! The shorter it is, the more memorable. The shorter it is, the less likely misspellings will occur. And speaking of misspellings, spend a few extra bucks and purchase domain name misspellings that might commonly occur: Googel.com is exhibit “A.” Otherwise, you’ll lose traffic passively to folks who can’t spell well, or actively to someone trying to steal traffic intended for you.
- Grab your Business Name.Com: Whether this serves as your main URL or as a redirect URL may depend on how well your business name is known, or how descriptive it is of your products and services. But as people get to know you by your business name, it will be vital that you own and use it. Purchase domain names related to individual products or services, too, for creating sub-domains or mini-sites.
- Let People Know What to Expect: Choose a domain name that clearly defines what you do, so people know what to expect. What would you expect from WebVet.com or FindCars.com? Yep, that’s what you’ll get. This builds brand ID and enhances memory force.
- Avoid Numbers and Hyphens: While numbers may work okay visually, it’s been demonstrated that hyphens do not. And both numbers (spelled out or used numerically) and hyphens create confusion when they are simply heard.
- Buy and Keep all the Extensions: While the dot-com domain name is best, eliminate competition by purchasing the .info, .org, .net, .biz, and now, the .mobi. The .mobi will be a growing necessity in a mobile world, and you’ll soon be glad you have it.
In today’s crowded, competitive web marketplace every advantage must be pursued, and the selection of a quality domain name is essential. To find a domain name that is descriptive and at the same time catchy or memorable is part science, part art, to be sure. Do some research, brainstorm with colleagues and partners, pick the consensus favorite as your main URL and buy all of the good alternatives you can afford.
The author, James Adams, writes for Cartridge Save, a leading provider of HP 364 ink and other supplies.
Domain names can make or break a successful online presence, so finding the right ones is important. On the Internet every day, hundreds of thousands of domain names expire while even more are produced. If you’re looking to get that perfect domain for your website the opportunity to get it can come and go without you even realizing it. This is why monitoring is so important to any domain management program. You also need to monitor your current domains so that you don’t let any of them expire and slip away from your control without you knowing it. Here are 8 applications and tools that you can use for domain monitoring and management.
- Bust A Name: an online Web resource that is useful for finding available domains that match your requirements and to monitor domain names for status changes. To help you find domains that you can use, BustaName will enhance searches by prepending and appending letters and even alternate spellings (such as omitting vowels). You can create a custom tracking table filled with potential domain candidates that you can rank by quality and potential as part of your monitoring program.
- Domain Punch: an application that installs on your Windows computer to track business assets such as domain names on the Internet. With special solutions geared toward large and small business customers, you can get a program with the features you need to track your domains and to find new ones as well.
- DNZoom: helps you manage your registrar accounts, parked domains, and domain security. Using DNZoom, users can secure domains with “Bank-Level” security, giving you the peace of mind knowing that your domain names won’t be taken away from you right under your nose. With DNZoom, you can reclaim hours of productive time that you’ve been spending on domain monitoring. It even has the capability of tracking the earnings you are generating from parked domains. DNZoom is an essential tool for effective domain monetization.
- Domainer: a Mac OS X app that gives you lookups for domain data such as page ranking information, back links, Diggs, and more. This powerful research helps you identify what domains are worth buying and at what price. Domainer will sync with iCal to keep track of domain expirations. You can also use Domainer to export and import Smart Groups and lists.
- iWantMyName: a Web-based application that will help you manage and register international domain names. The service also facilitates connecting your domain with other online services and apps.
- Domain Portfolio Manager: a PHP/MySQL browser based application that is designed to give you powerful but easy to use domain tracking and management. This package allows you to categorize domains, sort domain lists, find SEO safe URLs, automatically obtain domain creation and expiration dates, and conveniently update WhoIs data.
- DomainTyper: a search engine styled application that will search domains based on your input. The system will report back to you whether or not you can implement your idea. This website also has a dynamic random domain creator that can help give you new and creative ideas for naming your domain.
- DNScoop: a website that attempts to value online property. It bases its calculations on the number of links headed for a domain, how long the domain has been established. DNScoop also looks at historic traffic data, overall popularity, and page rank when determining how much a domain is worth.
By taking advantage of the powerful Web-based and computer-based tools on the internet, you can transform domain monitoring and domain management from laborious time-intensive tasks to informative and exciting simple tasks. The apps listed here are a good starting point for automating your domain tasks.
Tom Walker is a writer and designer who works with an online ecommerce store based in the UK who specialise in printer ink. He is an editor and contributor to their design blog where he posts about vintage advertising, modern art and print media.
One of the most asked questions is CVCV domains? Seems many people hold 4 letters domains, but not many of them is brand able or catchy names.
During my research for CVCV domains, I come across very interesting explanation of why you should invest in those domains, and what they actually represent.
This explanation was posted on forum and here it is..I hope it will help to everyone who want to know how this CVCV translates into your investments..
What is CVCV?
C = consonant (a consonant is “a basic speech sound in which the breath is at least partly obstructed”)
V = vowel (a vowel is “a speech sound which is produced by comparatively open configuration of the vocal tract, with vibration of the vocal cords but without audible friction”"
Note: definitions from the New Oxford Dictionary of English, 1998
In the Latin alphabet, the Vowel letters are A, E, I, O, U.
The letter Y can be used to represent different sounds in different words, and can therefore fit either definition (Consonant or Vowel) The letter Y is probably more often used as a vowel, but in this role is often interchangeable with the letter I
By general concensus, there are 13 letters from the 21 Consonant are called Premium Consonant Letters, they are:
B, C, D, F, G, H, L, M, N, P, R, S, T.
The 8 left (J, K, Q, V, W, X, Y, Z) are called non-premium letters
A CVCV Domain is a Domain consisted by 4 letters in CVCV sequence, for example, bade, beco….
Why CVCV Domains?
There are Lots of investors seek words that can be pronounced, CVCV domains often have a catchy sound to them and are quite brandable. They are short, easy to spell, easy to pronounce, and rhymes with itself.
There available CVCV Domains are limitted.
All CVCV.COM are gone, and more than 90% CVCV.NET taken already. Even for the latesr released .MOBI, 40% CVCV.Mobis are registed already (Most still available CVCV.Mobis are with non-premium letters)
Note:
There are total 15,000 CVCV domains only
(21 consonants, and 6 vowels . Letter Y acts as both consonant and vowel = 21x6x21x6 =15876, then remove the combinations with “YY” included, final number is 15,000)
If look the CVCV Domains with Premiun Consonants only, there are 6084 (= 13*6*13*6) Premium CVCV Domains only for each TLD!!
If you can’t afford to invest in generic dictionary dot coms, then invest in CVCV Domains
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In modern society, everyone is seeking ways to make money. In a sense, affiliate programs can be regarded as one of those times. If you are a site that receives a high volume of traffic, you may be able to make money with affiliate
programs, with little work or not. Let’s see how.
Despite the possibility of making money with little effort, can think about putting some effort. There are some relatively easy ways you can go about increasing your commissions.
If you’re in an affiliate program, you probably know exactly what the affiliate program of the Commission. If this is the first time you join an affiliate program, you may want to learn more. Commissions affiliate program is exactly like the fees that many stores offer their employees or make large sales. If and when you enroll in an affiliate program, you will be notified of their rates of commission in advance. Say, this rate is five percent.
All sales that help to generate, receive fifty percent of sales commissions. Many times all you need do is place a link or banner on your site. This is why affiliate programs are often considered the easiest ways to make money online legitimate.
One of the easiest ways to increase the amount of commissions you make with affiliate programs to choose your programs wisely. When it comes to affiliate programs commissions various subsidiaries offer different commission. In general, a joint commission rate is forty to fifty percent.
There are a number of affiliate programs that have ten or even fifteen percent commission rate for affiliates. Joining an affiliate program that has a relatively high percentage of the Commission is one of the easiest ways you can increase the amount of money you earn.
Another of the many ways you can go about increasing your Commission is successful. While it is often easier said than done, can be very useful. Most affiliate programs reward the top of its affiliates from the scene.
For example, when you reach a high level of income, like a thousand dollars in sales, be brought to a high level of the Commission. Many affiliate programs do so as a way to motivate their members. If you can make sales, you may see an increase in the amount of commission you make.
Besides choosing their affiliate programs wisely and performance, can also increase your commissions by experimentation. There are many different ways you can go about increasing your affiliate program commissions. The only thing is that all these methods work for all. The best thing to do is experience.
You have to take time to see what works for you and what does not. During the experiment, you may want to try writing affiliate product reviews or recommendations, sending monthly newsletters, optimizing your site to search engines or submit articles to article directories.
It is also important that you give it time. Increasing your affiliate commissions is not something that will happen overnight. The only way they can increase their commission from the beginning register is an affiliate program very rewarding. However, even with these programs, you are guaranteed to make any sale now.
If you are interested in using search engine optimization of your site, sending newsletters, or submitting to article directories, you have to these working methods. Although you may want to see the results immediately, no matter if it helps here a week or two months from now, at least you’ll be able to see an increase in their commissions.
Keeping these points in mind, you should be able to see an increase in the amount of money you make with affiliate programs. After a while, may well end up making a full time income with affiliate programs only.
After many brainstorming, and years of experience in almost 4 different field ; logistics, consulting & coaching , PC repair and domain industry.
I finally decided to develop domain and offer various of services for many of individuals who contacted me through social networking. I help many of them to reach their goals, and now I’m ready to open the door to the public.
The most of my business experience comes from business management background, and as well Freight Brokering ( Logistics) . I spend 6 months behind the door to create training program for that field. It was very successful, but with the time I moved on with different opportunities, and as well focus more on internet based work. During the last 15-20 years ( omg..I’m getting old ) , most of the time I find myself helping others find the information, giving idea, creating marketing materials, and coach and guide them ” How to” or ” Where” or “What” to do.
To make long story short. Protycoon is very successful domain name blog ,and will remain publish the news. Today I take the pride to announce InternetReaserachExpert.com services.
Thank you guys for reading today post…
It was a while since my last post. I’m getting more and more social with other domainers, developers, and as well my next clients.
Domain industry gets floated with live auctions, newsletter selling domains to subscribers, but we missing the place to get social. Is it enough to have twitter, facebook , linkedin ? I’d say NO. I have all of this and more, but still love to hang out with other domainers, and there is simple reason WHY? We are sharing our knowledge, and learn as we go. The great place to get social with domainers is SocialDomainers.com
SocialDomainers.com is where domainers get together! Interested in meeting local domainers near you? Want to organize local events or join local groups to discuss anything and everything related to domains? Well, you’ve come to the right place. We are the premier meeting place of domain name owners, developers, investors and entrepreneurs.
See you there !!!!
This is pretty unusual that PETA ask for donation of domain name SEX.COM
DOM Partners is hoping to take home a hefty sum by auctioning off the domain name “sex.com” on Thursday, but instead of selling the domain to the highest bidder, we’re asking the company to charitably donate the domain to PETA.
Televisions, news and all media again talking about sex.com . It’s long history behind this domain.
What’s going to happened?
Good friend of my received fraud e-mail, but this time is purchase of the art.
Here is the e-mail that’s arrived- look very legit
From: Linda
Subject: Venus
To: XXXX@xxxx
Hello,I appreciate your works and I would like to have the one titled:Venus .Please get back to me and lets arrange the purchase,Thanks.
Linda.
Looks like good legit offer. Does it? Receiver respond with terms of sale, and shipping cost.
Look at the copy of senders e-mail after TOS was send out;
From: Linda
Subject: Thanks.
To: XXXX@XXXXX
XXXXX,
Good to hear back from you.Yes,I will definitely like to proceed with the purchase of the work.I think it is a lovely work that will add a lot of colors to our wall.
I am presently away in London for my twin sister’s wedding even though it comes at a time when we are preparing for a big move and also expecting a baby but my presence here means so much to her,I guess you know how intimate identical twins are?she was also in the states when I was getting married to Terry in December 2001.Also,I would like to have my baby girl delivered here and i am buying this artwork for her nursery.
Please let me have your address,phone number and the name that would be written on the certified check so that I can inform my husband that is still shuttling between our home in Alabama and Cape Town, South Africa on whom to make the payment payable to.He has just been transferred to head the Mechanical section of their head Office in Cape town.He would be quite busy though,but I know he would find a time to send your payment asap.He loves artworks too.
About the shipping arrangement?I would have to forward your contact info to the local cartage company that is moving all our properties from Alabama to S.Africa,so that they would get in touch with you to arrange shipping details.They will arrange pick up of the artwork from your studio.(i.e there would be no shipping cost on the price of the artwork).They are handling all our movement arrangement and we would not like to move in pieces.
I hope you understand the arrangement?Please feel free to ask further questions.I saw your works while searching for artwork that would be used to beautify our new girl’s wall and your work caught my attention.I cant wait to have it on the wall!!!
I will look forward to hearing from you so I can know how best to proceed.
Cheers.
Best Regards,
Linda.
So, what are you guys thing? Looks pretty legit does it?
Be very cautions and careful when you are selling your products on the internet.
