For Beginners: How To Pick And Decides What Is The Right Domain Name For Your Newly Created Website or Blog

It is 2012 and still sharing some techniques I have learned for the past two years of my career on the internet and now I am going to reach my third year career online. So it is a good start to me for sharing some different ways to explore domain names and to find brainwave for new domain names to register. The method we research domain names will be highlighted to a large coverage by the intended use for the domain name, example is it being registered for a new or existing site, for making money or extra income online use or to keep an established company brand or organization trademark.

1. Ok, if you're looking for a domain name for a new website. Always remember to put the name that are related to your site and start by noting down what your site is all about, in a
paragraph or two. Then compress this description into a minimum of two sentences. Just take down the most relevant words on those sentences and take your short description. Underline all the "key" words that describe your site best. Let's take a specific example:

"My blog/website will be the primary source of information on domain name and web hosting, providing domain name registration and reliable web hosting ideas, an introduction to online web hosting, and a guide to selecting the right domain names for your blog/website, and a site for people who want an advice about web hosting and domain naming."

Now try to come up with a domain name that either addresses the one basic concept of the site, or that marries two or more key ideas in a single name.

In our example:

• domainnameregistration.com,
  
• domainnamesandwebhostings.com,
  
• domainnamepatterns.com,
  
• domainnamingworld.com,
• webhostingworld.com, etc.

Once you've drawn up a short-list of domain names to "test" for availability, it's time to look up our domain name search program. If you're having difficulty coming up with useful domain name combinations from your keywords, try a single keyword and add prefixes or suffixes. Not all prefixes and suffixes are appropriate in all situations - use your judgment when deciding which to add.

Common Prefixes and Common Suffixes

e, e-, my, i, i-, the, online, net, web, internet, hot, cool, our, your world, links, site, web, net, resource, business, company, corp, inc, shop, store, mall, search, directory, guide.

Naming a new website or blog are crucial, because if you have the most fit name on your site,
it is not just only gain a good ranking on search engines, it will also help you to get the most visitor coming to your site.

2. Note as many keywords and key phrases on your notepad (you can use the Free Google Keyword Tools for this matter). These are what searcher will use to find your blog or website. Keyword phrases are usually better, much better than single word alone. Right now, you can register domain names up to 67 characters that are loaded with rich keywords and radically raise your ranking on search engines.

Search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing care for domain names that illustrate well the site and are full with keywords and high quality content.

For example,
1234-domain-name-reviews.com. You can use the "1234-" part to get better placement by those search engines who sort alphabetically. Also notice that the words "domain name", and
"reviews" are keywords that have been established and proven to be the most widely used in our business.

3. How about if you are looking for a domain name for an existing website. In the case that you're looking to buy a domain name for a website that is already up and running, your options will be more limited than if you're starting from scratch.

First, have you already been operating the site under a clearly-recognizable "name" or "title"? Even if your site is hosted on inexpensive space at an ISP, or on a free host (not recommended), you may have given it a short title in huge letters (or in a logo). This is the obvious place to start when looking for a domain name. If your site's name (as given in its title) is very common, you may well come across one (or many) other sites previously were using it -and the corresponding domain name (s) long since gone. In that case, you have to decide
whether you will make a bid to buy the domain name you want, but for my opinion, you should look for an alternative extension (such as .org or .net) or use the brainstorming ideas mentioned earlier.

4. The new policy for 67 character domain names. This could present a great opportunity in
more ways than one. Because the rules have changed, you can register names up to 67 characters long. This is including the .com or .net or .org. The old rule limited you to 23 characters only.

What does this mean to us bloggers and webmasters?

For bloggers and webmasters this is a big break to make some big money in a very short period of time with a little investment.

Why? Because you can register names today in hopes of selling them for big earnings tomorrow. You have probably heard of this before, well now it's happening again. For example, business.com has been sold for 7.5 million dollars! Do some brainstorming and register these names while you still can.

Here are some of the reasons:

You can register domain names that abound with your keywords and really improve ranking on the search engines. Search engines just love names that describe the web site and have lots of keywords.

Not very many surfers know this but the search engines actually prefer names with hyphens.
Most people prefer names without hyphens but nowadays everyone just searches and clicks, you don't generally have to type in the name.

Conclusion:

If you want your site to be more crawled by the search engines make sure you use hyphens and
if you want to appeal to the average person surfing the World Wide Web do not use hyphens. But do you know what the easiest way to assure success is? Register both! There is no better way to ensure that you are getting as many visitors more possible than by registering the URL with hyphens and the same URL without. You can register a name that is better than what you have now. Maybe your present domain name ends with a .net or .org. You can get a .com name which will be better for your blog or website business. If achievable, by all means
register first the .com name, follow by .net and/or .org. If you now have a .net or .org, you are losing visitors and losing business.

Almost everybody remembers .com before .net or .org and that's a fact. Even most browsers will default to .com if the extension is not entered. A good .com name will always prevail and pay for itself time and time again. Even if you ask any of the webmaster and blogger experts on domain name and webhosting.