Buying Domain Names For Private Or Business Use

By Phil Guye


There are many methods for you to go about buying website name for your internet business or for your personal web based blog. Video marketing is one way to promote your domain name. If you have your own blog you can simply use the free websites at Wordpress or Blogger and use your own name. If you are starting a great online business, however, that is not the strategy you should use.

When you buy a domain name you actually own a small piece of internet 'real estate'. So long as you don't break any regulations you can apply whatever you want with that website. In the event you rely on the free sites you will end up at their mercy. That could not seem like a big issue right now but if you raise your very profitable web business and Google (who owns Blogger.com) decides that they don't like something you do, they can shut your site down with no notification. Think about what it would feel like to go to bed one evening with a successful internet business only to wake up the next morning to discover that your website is gone! If you feel I'm just being paranoid you must ask around in the forums online and see if that has happened to anyone. Since it only costs around $10 to find a domain name, it's just not worth a chance.

The next thing to consider for buying website name is what should your name be? The best way to answer that is to do keyphrase research and gather a list of keywords related to your market that get high monthly searches. With your keyword list in hand head off to some online website name registrars like GoDaddy.com or NameCheap.com. Once there, you merely go down your keyword list until you locate a domain name that is available.

So, let's imagine you have a keyword that is "make money online". You would likely go to a domain registrar, type in the phrase "make money online" choose your extension (I personally think it's ok to use either a .com or a .net) and see if that domain is available. If it is you just have to check out, and it's yours. If you want to purchase a domain name that has already been bought by someone you can go to domain auction websites and then try to buy it there. You can expect to pay more since the domain name has actually been online in most cases and will already be generating traffic.

But, since it's already getting traffic this may be a great way to jump start your company, so it's not all bad, if you can afford it. Buying website name for your internet business really isn't difficult or expensive. To get the biggest bang from your website name just follow these simple tips. When you use a genuine keyword for your domain name you will get most free traffic and that is always a nice thing.




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