Choosing the best domain name for your niche is important but maybe not as important as some would lead you to believe. A good domain name will bring you organic (search engine) traffic simply because the name matches the keyword search but the days of finding a domain name with high levels of search volume are long gone.
A quick note for those new to the craft: Keywords can be defined as the specific terms used by person to search for something on the net. For example, to find this page, you may have searched for “domain names” or “best domain names”.
A good domain name will contain one or two keywords related to the niche you have chosen. The shorter the keyword the better but is become increasingly hard to find good two word names and a one word name is nearly impossible. You can however increase your odds by adding your name (or something you make up to the keywords. For example,the keyword combination “guitar lessons” gets a lot of searches, 28,000 per month at the time of this righting. This domain name is taken but by making it dougsguitarlessons.com you will still get a boost in the search engine rankings from the keywords “guitar lessons”
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Almost everyone will tell you that choosing a niche is a very difficult process. I heartily disagree. If you are thinking about internet marketing I believe it is best if you start with a simple blog and pick a subject you have a passion for. The lessons learned while creating, providing content and driving traffic to your blog are lessons you will need learn in order to make money online.
Make a list of the topics you have a real interest in and you think you would enjoy writing about. Your goal when creating a blog is to become an authority on the topic chosen. You want people to believe that you know what you are talking about. This is much easier if it is a subject you are familiar with.
Sound too easy? Where’s the catch? The catch is that the blog you so carefully created may not generate much if any income. I could go into how to choose a money making niche here but I won’t because I believe it is more important to learn all that is involved in creating an authority site. Once you have that mastered you can create a blog a month (if your not working a day job) that will provide varying levels of income.
I am sure that if you are reading this you have seen all the impossible promises. You know, buy this program and you can quit your day job or make $1000′s of dollars every week working 2 hours a day. Anybody that is in internet marketing will tell you, if they are honest, that internet marketing is work and if your not willing to work at it you will not succeed.
You see, the problem is no one can put everything you need to know into one of these books you see advertised. And the sad truth is almost any system or method you find will work if you stick to it but very few actually stick with it.
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