Deciding about what your going to blog about and most importantly picking a domain name for your blog is the most important part of starting your blog. The reason i say this is because you want a domain name that is going to match the content of your blog and also a domain name that is keyword friendly, even better is if you choose a domain name that will have your main keyword within your domain name, this will help the optimisation of your blog and also help with your search engine rankings.
What i do is, first i research the keywords that have less competition for the niche im going to blog about and also has a good amount of monthly searches. I use Googles free keyword tool:
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
Simply enter in a keyword related to your niche as below, for this example i will target a niche blog on “LCD TVs”:
Then you will receive the results, on the match type field select Phrase as i’ve done below. This will put quotes around the keyword and give more accurate results.
Now what you want to do is go to Google.com and see what competition there is for this keyword. What you want to do is find a keyword that has less then 50,000 competing websites because the less competition for that keyword the more likely you will rank on page 1 for that keyword.
For example go to Google and do the following with your chosen keyword (The keyword I chose from my list was “best flat screen tv” which has a monthly search volume of 9,900) making sure to put the quote marks around your keyword as I’ve done below:
Now once you have chosen the keyword you want to target, next is to search online to see if there is a domain available that has your main keyword within the domain name.
The ideal domain extensions you want are
- First option for .com if its available
- 2nd option if .com is taken is .org
- 3rd option if both .com and .org are taken then get .net
If all 3 extensions are taken then what you can do is add something to the end of the domain for example:
www.bestflatscreentvonline.com
etc..
Make sure you don’t have any dashes (-) in your domain name and make sure your keyword starts at the beginning.
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Written by Andrew Fitzgerald - Make Money Blogging
