An essential part of every website is the domain, thinking of a good name to register and name your website is probably the hardest part of the process, luckily there are many domain name suggestion tools out there online. The domain name generator that i have used the most over the years is Nameboy.com and I have also had success with DomainsBot.com but since they only suggest the domain names that is all I use the website for since they tend to be more expensive than other services online. The steps in registering a domain are listed as follows.
- Choosing the domain name and checking availability, I use namecheap.com to register all my domains as i like their user panel and interface.
- The next process is registering a domain is selecting how many you want to register, if your site becomes popular, people will register similar domains to yours and try and cash in on your sites popularity. Larger sites register every domain that you could think of
- Next step in the process is to choose how many years you want to register the domain for, usually i only register the domain for one yar s if the site doesn’t take of i haven’t wasted any money, you can always renew the domain if does become popular
- When you go to pay for the domain on namecheap.com include the voucher for January 2009 “happy2009″ will entitle you to a domain at the price of $8.81
- Next step is to setup your hosting, you need to get the name servers for your webs host and once you have registered your domain on namecheap there is a link at the side panel to manage the name servers, you need to change these from the default namecheap servers to your own.
That should be your domain will resolve to your web host, it may take a couple of hours for the servers round the world to refresh. I will update this post with some links to cheap domain registrars when i get them
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When i was working in adult and targeting many different search terms i used sub domains! I was usually building sites to forget about, what i mean i would spend a couple of hours developing a website or setting up a blog with some posts then go of and promote the site, that would be it, i would never update.
This is a technique employed by a lot of people making their income online, but a lot of these guys go and buy and endless amount of domains, i buy one, host it on a shared hosting account with unlimited sub domains. I then would do the same on a different shared hosting account elsewhere which then let me build back links between similar sites.
Heres how I discovered keywords and targeted the search terms.
- To start with i would go brainstorm the keywords i was targeting- webmaster
- To help with this i used a tool overture but i cant seem to find it any more but google luckily enough has its own version which is similar- Google keyword tool
- I then would use this tool to check which keyword or search term got the most terms.
- Taking this information i would google it and see what the competition was like, if there was none, great! But if the search results where overloaded with pages targeted to this search term it would make it difficult but i would quit.
- I would create my sub domain and then get to work.
- If i was going to blog on this site i would upload wordpress and place the search term in the page title and create the categories with the search term in them-
Say skydiving was my search term
- The domain would read something like http://skydiving.follor.com
- The categories that my posts on the blog fell into would be skydiving pics, skydiving stories, skydiving videos, skydiving info and so on
- Also i would include all this in the title “Skydiving pics, info, videos and stories”
- The title of each post would have skydiving in it, an example would be “Skydiving in Ireland” which would fit into all categories
- The final trick is to make sure you have permalinks enable in the wordpress settings to include the name in the URL
Thats it for today, hopefully i have inspired you to how to target keywords and search terms cheaply without having to buy a lot of domains, and by the way i have no interest in skydiving, the term was the first thing that popped into my head while writing this post.
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