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The preliminary step to building a website is the registration of a domain name.  Whether you are a doctor, lawyer, plumber, aluminum siding salesman, or if you want to start up a website to display photos of your newborn online, the entire undertaking begins with the registration of your domain name.

Next you might ask- “What constitutes a good choice of domain name?”.  The answer to this depends on what type of site you are planning.  The domain name chosen for a family and friends website won’t be as crucial as with other types of sites.  Why?  Because in a case like that you probably don’t really care about gaining a lot of traffic to your website, friends and family are your desired audience, to keep them informed.  In a case like this, it does not matter whatsoever if you find a domain name like “mybabiesphotos.com” or not, since most likely you will only be giving out the website address to a few friends and family and maybe your crazy Uncle Bill.   

The point is that in a case like this, there is no real concern with getting a lot of visitors to the website other than friends and family and coworkers, so there is no real harm in naming the website ANYTHING, because you will be giving out the website address to a select few people.  BUT……

What if you are looking to attract customers?  And to get as much traffic coming to your site as possible?

It really pays to have a domain name that reflects your company name and website.  Put some thought into how people search.  For example, if your company sells insurance or doughnuts or bowling pins or toilet bowls, find a way to incorporate WHAT YOU DO in the website domain name.  If you can, get your domain name exactly the same as your business, that is your best bet.  Failing that, at least try to put the category of your business into the name.  For example, a plumbing website should have a domain name like plumbers.com or bobtheplumber.com, something that immediately associates the domain name with the theme of the site.  It’s all about branding, and making a lasting impression on the target audience or customers.

You need to search the WhoIs database to find a domain name that has not already been registered.  For a quick search of your desired domain name, I have conveniently placed a domain name search engine on StartMyWebsiteToday.com for this very purpose.  When searching for the domain name, the results given will instantly show whether or not the domain name is available, and if so, give you the option to immediately register it.  If it’s not available, several alternative domain names will be proposed, to help you fine tune your search, or possibly giving you an acceptable alternative domain name to register instead.

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How To Get More Traffic To Your Blog

This is a free guide on how to get more traffic to your blog. Blogs are being used more and more now days, every website you come across will have a blog attached to it. People use blogs to increase traffic to there website as its one of the easiest ways of publishing unique content, and getting traffic to it from google without much work.

Every article you write will naturally be assigned weight to certain terms you use throughout your article, without knowing it you have optimized your article for particular keyterms and if they are not popular terms your post should get displayed on the first page of google and you will receive small amounts of traffic to it. The more article you write and publish the more traffic you will receive, you will only receive traffic for the less popular terms unless you promote your article to help get it ranked highly in google for harder terms.

With the traffic that comes to your blog you can implement ways of converting it to your main pages and then into sales. Having a blog and writing frequent content will help establish a name for yourself and make your website an authority site.

There are many methods on how to get more traffic to your blog and one of the most popular ways is by submitting it to social bookmark sites, this will help gain instant exposure and traffic in a short period of time. This is also a great way to promote your keyterms as you are producing high quality links from sites like dig.com and reddit.com which are favoured highly by google.

Another great way to help promote your keyterms and gain small amounts of traffic is by submitting your website to as many high quality blog directories as possible. When I mean high quality I mainly mean websites with good pagerank’s and reputations with google. You also want to find out the alexa rank of the directory you are submitting to as that will give you an idea of how much traffic that directory receives and how popular it is.

If you only submit your blog posts to good quality directories you will be helping to increase your Pagerank and in turn that will get you better results from google. Its quite easy to get your posts assigned a Pagerank just by submitting them to social bookmarking sites and directories, but remember to only get links from website that have a good Pagerank themselves.

Eventually your blog will receive so much traffic that you can start to make some serious money out of selling text links and using advertisements from places like adsense.com. Written by Michael David Tedder

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