How To Pick Up The Best Domain Name

Publishing your website and picking up the domain name

Before going online with your new website. Make sure you have the right name for it. Right domain name is a crucial part of search engine optimizations, and with these simple tips you can't go wrong:

Good domain name is a keyword rich

Domain name should contain at least few keywords related to your website/product/business. Just make sure that the keywords and the domain name makes sense. My blog has two keywords: Money and SEO + It also contains a sentence that someone would type in to Google "Money with SEO". It's short, it's simple, and makes whole lotta sense. Very effective. Of course the word "with" itself is not a very effective, but try "money with" or "with SEO" and your possibilities are endless. Some keywords get a higher value when used in sentence.

Make it easy to remember

Very long website name can be descriptive, but also going to be very painful to remember. If you do offline marketing, you want to keep your domain name short, simple and easy to remember. If you are doing your business mostly on Internet (no offline marking at all), and most of your visitors come from search engines. You can keep the domain name little longer. Good rule with everything is "K.I.S.S" (Keep It Simple, Stupid).

What domain name extension?

I would go with .com if the site is International (English), if you are doing local business (foreign countries), use country extension like .co.uk, fr, fi....etc. You are getting much more attention from search engines that way. Also remember to use a meta language tag to get better local visibility.

Doman Registration Time

How long registration period you would choose? I'd say at least 2 years. Some search engines give more value to domains that will be around for a longer period of time. It's also cheaper to buy domain & hosting for a longer time. Saving money and time is always a good thing.

Before going online with your new website

Very important last questions: Would you click your own website address?

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5 Good Reasons To Edit Old Blog Posts SEO Wise

Good Reasons why editing old blog posts is good for Search Engine Optimizations

Many times people stop blogging, because their blog didn’t get much of attention in first place. Reason of this is simple: Search Engines doesn’t rank your first posts too high, and sometimes Google and other search engines misses your posts entirely. It’s a shame, because most of the bloggers has put most effort on their first posts.

Just keep writing and you will get rewarded, here are some tips that will improve your ranking by editing your older topics.

Let's start with the list shall we...

1. Keep your posts updated:

Don’t forget to update your old blog posts. Some of the topics (technology) might get old fairly quickly, and using just few minutes of your time, you can make them new again. Usually you don’t have to edit the whole post, just need to add couple of additional lines, and that’s it! Fresh content with just a fraction of time you used on the original article!

2. Add Pictures

Pictures can make a huge difference. Not only they add extra coolness, they make Facebook links much more interesting (You gain much more viewers when you have a picture on your blog post). You also get more viewers via Image search (Google etc.), just remember to add “alt attributes” to your photos.

3. Link to your old posts

Remember to link to your older posts everytime you get a change. Just don’t over do it, or your posts starts look spammy. Linking to older posts can help Google to index them better, and better indexing is crucial to SEO.

4. Keywords and Labels

If your older posts don’t have any labels –> add them now! Some people say that Google ignores these, but I have found that your labels are indexed faster than your entire blog post. If you blog about “hot topics”, you want to add labels/keywords. With hot topics you need to act fast, and adding labels is something you don't want to miss.

5. Spelling

Correct all the spelling errors you can find. There are tons of spell checkers out there. Windows Mail software has built in spell checker, or you could use free office software like OpenOffice or LibreOffice. I doubt many people will link to your posts if they are filled with spelling errors.


Let me know your tips! :)

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Follow up: 5 More ways to use your old blog posts

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SEO: How To.... or How Not To? Black Hat SEO

Black Hat SEO and Google

Google has attacked strongly against Black Hat Search Engine Optimizations (SEO) lately, and latest "bust" has been J.C. Penney:

The company bested millions of sites — and not just in searches for dresses, bedding and area rugs. For months, it was consistently at or near the top in searches for “skinny jeans,” “home decor,” “comforter sets,” “furniture” and dozens of other words and phrases, from the blandly generic (“tablecloths”) to the strangely specific (“grommet top curtains”).

Read rest of the story at: The New York Times - The Dirty Little Secrets of Search

Finally black hat seo got some major attention, and pretty sure that this will scare some of the dirty competition away...

If your site got banned from Google. Make sure you use Webmaster's tools, as it has a page for a "Site reconsideration", in case you go wrong. Of course you need to fix your page to fit the rules.

More about Google spam penalties and how to deal with them:

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