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Buying Domain Name The Right Way
ď When it comes to making your online presence
professional buying domain name is one of the best
things you can do for your online business. With so
many free options available online, many people
mistakenly think that they will be just as successful
(and save money) by going the free route, but there are
a few problems with that line of thought.
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Buying Domain Name The Right Way
ď For one thing, when you are relying on a free blog, no
matter which platform you are using, you don't own a
thing. If the service that provides the blog, say
WordPress, decides that they don't like something
about your blog, they can shut it down and they don't
have to let you know they are doing it or why they are
doing it.
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ď Another problem using the free methods is that you
can't get a good domain name. You want your own
unique domain name not a hybrid name tacked on to
the end of the free service you're using, it just looks
more professional to have your own name.
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Buying Domain Name The Right Way
ď Domain names are inexpensive and easy to buy so
there's really no reason to not buy your own. With
sites like GoDaddy.com and DomainCheapsters.com
plus many more, you can get a domain name for as
cheap as $10 a year or if you buy many at once you can
get the price down to less than $7 a piece per year.
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Buying Domain Name The Right Way
ď Besides establishing your online presence and creating
a professional look, when you buy your own domain
name you can actually flip your website and sell it. It's
the same concept as when someone buys a house, fixes
it up and sells it for a profit. There are sites online that
will allow you to place your site up for sale, Flippa.com
is one of those sites.
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ď Just buy a good domain name, put up a site, get some
traffic (and hopefully some sales) than list it on Flippa
and make some money. Think about it, if you only
paid $10 for a domain name and a little bit for hosting,
and then you sold the site for only $200 that would be
a pretty nice profit for such a quick and easy sale.
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Buying Domain Name The Right Way
ď When it comes time to picking out your domain name
there is a few simple things to keep in mind:
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ď 1. Do keyword research to find a list of keywords
associated with your niche that get a lot of traffic every
month. Then try to get one of those keywords, exactly,
as your domain name. For example, in the niche for
cat toys let's say I found a great keyword that gets a lot
of monthly searches without too much competition:
cheap cat toys. Than I would want to use that as my
domain: CheapCatToys.com. That way my domain
name is a highly searched for keyword which will
guarantee quite a bit of free, highly targeted, traffic.
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ď 2. If all of your marketing efforts are going to be online
I wouldn't worry too much about the extension. I've
had equally good luck using a .com, .net, or .org. All
my marketing efforts are with PPC or article marketing
so no one needs to type in my domain name, they just
click on a link which is why I don't think the
extensions matter too much. If you are going to be
marketing in such a way that people would have to
actually type in the domain name to find your site, it
may make more of a difference.
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Buying Domain Name The Right Way
ď Treat your online business like a business and establish
your online presence and professionalism by buying
domain name. The cheap route can work in a pinch
but as soon as you can afford $10 or so, buy your own
name.