Archive for the 'Domain Names' Category
So you’ve just bought an old domain, what should you do take the most of it? Rebecca of SeoMoz has a great post listing the pros and cons of the top three courses of actions she recommends you take. According to her what you can do with an old domain is to:
301 redirect the old domain to an existing one;
create a microsite that links to an existing domain; or
overhaul the old domain and operate it independently.
Obviously your course of action will depend on your current circumstance with the first two options possible only for those that are already currently ...
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Decision of domain names are generally by the domain name system or the DNS that states all the rules and regulations according to which different domain and sub domain names are formed. A domain name comes to use for identifying the host. Doing domain check finds the availability of domain names for a particular extension. There are a number of domain check websites available on the internet that allows you to do the same.
Domain names follow a hierarchy beginning with the topmost level that consists of the generic and the country code top-level ...
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We ended with the example of del.icio.us in the last post. This kind of domain name takes advantage of the existing extensions. Is this a good way to create a domain name? I think that it could be – if you can come up with a word (or words) that makes sense and that is (are) related to your blog content. Some of the more popular domain names making use of this technique:
sear.ch
b.uy
tel.ly
beach.es
justcurio.us
designm.ag
podca.st
foot.ie
Why not challenge yourself to see if you can come up with a suitable domain name?
Another way ...
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In the previous post, we talked about how you can find the perfect domain name for your blog. However, we only really focused on the benefits that using keywords could bring in terms of search engines. There are actually other things that you can consider in order to grab the most suitable domain name for your blog. One important aspect is
how brandable your domain name is.
What exactly do I mean by brandable? (I don’t think you will find that word in the dictionary, by the way). I think ...
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In the previous post, we talked about how serious bloggers prefer to get their own domain over using the default domain that free blogging platforms provide. If you are ready to buy your own domain, you should think long and hard as to what domain name to use. You can always choose any name that suits your fancy without thinking about the consequences in terms of SEO, that is true. However, I am assuming that since you are serious enough to spend money – albeit a small sum – on a domain, ...
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Blogs are all over the Internet these days. I still remember when blogs first began to get big. I resisted. My rationale was that I keep my thoughts to myself, I do not like people finding out what I think – why should I create a blog? Then the nature of blogs changed. I changed. My way of thinking changed. I now blog – A LOT.
There are many different blog platforms today and many of them are free. I do not see any “bad” thing about using ...
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Why www.blog-news.com (hyphenated) and not www.blognews.com (non-hyphenated)?
The current main search engine (Google) doesn't recognize the individual words from the above non-hyphenated domain names, so they would not help future optimization plans. The hyphenated domain http://www.blog-news.com is seen by
Google as-
www blog news com since Google treats . (dots) and - (hyphens) as a space. We say "google can parse those keywords out of the domain name".
Note a domain with a single keyword (i.e www.keyword.tld) will have the single keyword recognized since Google sees the two dots (in the example above) as spaces. So when choosing ...
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As mentioned in the last post the SEOmoz Page Strength is a very wholistic way of determining your blog's ability to attract traffic. This is because it takes several very important factors into consideration. As a matter of fact it actually takes into factor the top determinants of a blog's traffic. So just what are the factors that contributes to your page strength?
The factors are:
1. The number of links pointing to your full URL.
2. The number of links pointing to your domain.
3. Your position at Google for the first four words of title tag on ...
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We bought a domain mid
June 2006, it was originally registered October 2002, it was not indexed in Google (was redirected to another site) and so had no links to it. It had been indexed in the past (years ago), but the domain was reported as
PR0 home page after the redirect was lifted. Basically this site was equivalent to a newly registered domain in all aspects except it's original registration date.
We added a large site to this domain and enough links to make a few
PR4 pages at the next PR update. As I ...
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