How to Choose The Best Domain Names For Your Business Blogs

Choosing the best domain names for your business blogs is the foundation of establishing a successful interest presence. However, a quick search of godaddy.com will quickly illustrate that many of the best domain names are taken. Do not worry! There are plenty good URL's (uniform resource locator's) available. The following steps will help you in choosing the best domain names for your blogs.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. First, good domain names are easy to pronounce. If you have to "hyphen" or "dash" when giving out your ULR's, you blog sites are probably not going to be remembered. Likewise, avoid using a number in domain names as the consumer will not know whether they have to use the actual digit or whether they have to spell out the number to reach your website.

2. Second, the best domain names are easy to understand over the telephone or on the radio. Using words that include the letters "s" (pronounced "ess") and "f" (pronounced "eff") is a receipe for confusion. Moreover, certain consonant pairs are often misunderstood such as "d" and "t", "b" and "p", and "c" and "z".

3. Third, the best domain names are easy to remember. Acronyms are hard to recall unless the consumer is already familiar with your company or organization. The best choice is to use words or phrases and leave the acronyms to another part of your online marketing.

4. Next, domain names should be easy to type. Keep it simple. While you are permitted to use up to 59 characters, the longer the domain name, the more likely you will miss out on blog traffic due to a typographical error.

5. Additionally, successful domain names can be easily read in the address toolbar. Colors and capitalization does not work in address and search engine boxes so make the domain names user friendly. Moreover, avoid choosing domain names with the following combinations: (1) "m", "n", or "r" next to one another (i.e., "rnnrmn"); (2) "1" and "l" side by side (i.e., "1lll1"); and (3) "l" next to "i" (i.e., "liiill").

6. Finally, you should be creative in choosing your domain names. Some of the most successful domain names have nothing to do with the product that is being sold (i.e., "apple.com", "monster.com", etc.). Some domain names use words that did not even exist prior to a blogger or web designer coining the phrase (i.e., "google.com"). It is hard to argue with that type of success!

7. Keeping the above-referenced steps in mind will help you choose the best domain names for your business blogs.

[chasingthebull]

on 7/8/2009 Great ideas for choosing the best domain names!