Hello Web Traffic Academy Readers. Just wanted to make some announcements. During the past week I’ve relaunched Game Website Builder dot com. Game Website Builder is a project I’ve been working on for almost two years now. I just finished the introduction video and begun advertising on Google, Ebay, WarriorForum, SitePoint, DigitalPoint, FunKlicks, and a number of other sites. This week I will begin to push my affiliate program.
Two of the other sites I’ve launched are demo sites of the Game Website Builder. The first is GamesViking which can be found at Viking Games. The second is Shooting Games Online, which I particularly like the background of and the domain name is one that I was surprised wasn’t yet taken considering the search volume that phrase has.
The next project I will begin work on is my Starcraft 2 Strategy Guide at Starcraft 2 Strategy Masters dot com. This
News of the Day: Google says the Ad recessions is over and that they will begin hiring aggressively again. That is good news for anyone lucky enough to get a job with them, as they are probably the most profitable technology company in the world right now, and their future outlook looks really good due to YouTube soon becoming profitable due to more of the big tv networks beginning to advertise with them and with the new video compression technology they recently acquired.
Have you ever noticed that 99% of the most popular, most famous bloggers very rarely link out to other blogs in their posts? Copyblogger, Entrepreneurs-Journey, ProBlogger, HowToMakeMyBlog, ChrisBrogan, SethGodin, and at least 90% of the Technorati Top 100 do not link out to other sites in their posts, and if they do its usually only with an affiliate link or on a very rare occasion to promote a partners site. The authors of these blogs write like they thought up all the ideas in each of their posts, and it really helps to build their authority in the eyes of their readers. The A-list bloggers know that when you link out, it causes people to leave your site, and if you link out to better sites, they won’t be back.
The only very successful blogger I know of who links out to other sites a lot is Aaron Wall of SEOBook. In many of his posts he links out like crazy, sometimes to 10 to 15 different articles at different blogs. One of the reasons he does this is because Aaron Wall doesn’t make his money directly from selling ad space on his blog, he makes it from selling his own products. He mainly writes blog posts to build trust with his potential customers, and get high search engine rankings for keywords he deliberately targets with his posts as Google’s ranking algorithm gives you more points for linking to good sites so he does it to increase his rankings. The other reason he links out to blogs in particular a lot is because when you link to other bloggers, they usually see that you linked to them, so linking to blogs its a great way to market your sites and products directly to bloggers, and get them to link back to you.
When you first start profit blogging, you might consider linking out to other blogger’s posts to get noticed by other bloggers in your niche, but eventually I would recommend cutting down on it and focusing on building perceived authority. That’s where the biggest money is.
Part 1 of How To Pick A Good Website Domain Name That Will Dominate Search Engine Rankings Video
(edit to video – You don’t have to pay for credit cards of course, but you do have to pay interest if you don’t pay them off each month, that’s why credit card companies have big payouts on their affiliate programs.)
Part 2 of How To Pick A Good Website Domain Name That Will Dominate Search Engine Rankings Video
Its important to put some time into thinking up a domain name for your business, blog, forum, or seo project. Your domain name is a big factor in how highly you will be able to rank in search engines(search engine traffic is the most valuable and highest converting kind of traffic there is), the perceived value and credibility of your content and product(which determines how much people will pay for it and how many will buy), your click through rate(ctr) and quality score in Google Adwords and how much you will pay for each click(people click on ads with domain names that have the keywords they were searching for in them which gives them a much higher CTR and therefore adwords quality score), and the rate at which people will remember your domain name and return to your site or come to it in the first place. All of the aforementioned things will effect how much money your website will make. If you don’t pick a good one your business will suffer, so think of a few good names and ask your friends what they think is the best one before you settle on your final choice.
If you do some searches on google, you’ll notice that many of the top 10 domains ranking for the top 10 results for just about every short tail keyword are the homepage of the domains, they mostly all have the keyword in their domain name or part of the keyword(many times the first part of the domain names listed is the keyword that you search for), and they always have the keyword in the title of their homepage. This tells us that google likes to rank sites for the keywords in their domain name as it usually is a very good indicator of what the site is about and therefore is the most relevant to the keyword being search for.
In the above videos there are examples on the keywords ‘web hosting’ and ‘credit cards’ because they are the main keywords for two very high profit niches, and they have enough competitors in them to be able to see trends in the Google ranking algorithm. They are also niches that anyone can compete in as all you have to do is promote affiliate products for them(just about all big web hosting companies have affiliate programs, and there are lots of credit card affiliate offers to promote just search google for ‘credit card affiliate’ or ‘credit card affiliate program’s’). All you have to do is buy a domain name that targets a medium or low search volume keyword(found via the Google Keyword Tool, I consider any keyword that gets over 1,000 searches per month to be medium volume), make sure the keyword you are targeting isn’t too competitive and has subpages and domains that are PageRank 4 or lower being listed in the top 10 results(this tells you that it will be easy to rank for), install wordpress with 1 click through your host, write 5 to 10 posts/articles that are 300 to 500 words long and put them as posts on the blog, get some backlinks, and in a couple weeks to a couple months you will be ranking in the top 10 and potentially making yourself a decent income from the information product you are selling and or the affiliate offer you are promoting.
Attributes Of A Good Domain Name
1)A good domain name should target one high search volume keyword(and only one) in your niche. For example, WebHostingGeeks.com targets ‘Web Hosting’(and its #2 for one of the most profitable keywords in the world, ‘web hosting’). You can find high volume search terms by using the google keyword tool(search for a short tail keyword, sort by ‘exact match’, look at how much monthly search volume it has- anything over 1000 is good, and click the column that shows how much people are paying per click to see if its a profitable niche). Ideally your domain name should be the high search volume keyword you want to rank for, but if its taken just tack a word onto the end of it like ‘guide’ ‘tips’ ‘free’ ‘book’ ‘forum’ ‘guru’ or anything else you want that sounds good.
2)The first part of the name should be the high search volume keyword you want to rank for, or it can be the last part. This will really help your seo, and your google adwords quality score if you plan to buy traffic to your product pitch page or affiliate product pitch page(and if you don’t have a product you should have one, digital information products are easy to make). It will also help people remember you when they think of your topic, because say for example they need web hosting, they’ll think ‘web hosting geeks dot com’.
3)Set the first part of the ‘title’ of your homepage to the high level search term in your domain name. By title, I mean the title tag in your html. This is very important for SEO.
4)If the domain name you want is taken, try the .org/.net/.me/.us version, or add a word on the end of it like “free” “how to” “guide” “geeks” “guys”, just a short word that will add brand not hurt the seo.
5)When other websites link to you, lots of times they will use your keywords in your domain name as the anchor text of their link. Link anchor text is very important in SEO, and having the keyword you want people to use when linking to your in your domain name helps a lot.
6)The domain name alone should explain the purpose or topic of your company, so your visitors know exactly what your site is about just by looking at the domain name. For example if you want to do a review of a product have your domain name be something like Blog Mastermind Review rather than Alice’s Review World. This will also help with seo and your search engine rankings.
7)It should be short and catchy. Its hard to remember long domain names.
8)If you ever need to use a dash between words in your domain name, only do it for a .com and only use one.
9)Only use .com/.net/.org (.info, .me, .us should only be used for SEO sites only, or as a last resort).
10)Domain names should be easy to spell, easy to say out loud, and catchy.
11)Try to make the words in your domain start with the same letter. Like MaverickMoneyMakers. It makes it easy to remember and its catchy.
12)It should be easy to type in. For example you can type facebook with one hand, try typing ‘face’ right now and see what I mean. When people are sitting at the desk at work and get bored, one hand takes them to facebook.
A Look At The Most Popular And Successful Domain Names And Their Attributes
The top 10 Most popular domains it the world right now according to Alexa are-
Some of the things these have in common are they are all short, they are all dot com’s (except wikipedia), and their domain name explains what they are(google is a googole of in tools and information, facebook is a book of faces, myspace is a site where you can setup your space). Your user should be able to tell what your site is about by just looking at the domain name.
All of these domain names are keyword rich, and are very catchy. Most of these blogs get updated multiple times per day with high quality content, which is very important to their success.
The current top 10 Clickbank Product domain names according to CB-Analytics are-
1.twittertrafficmachine.com
2.the-cb-code.com (this is only because he wasn’t allowed to use ‘clickbank’ in his clickbank product name, he also owns theclickbankcode.com it just redirects)
3.reversephonedetective.com
4.fatloss4idiots.com
5.earth4energy.com
6.fapturbo.com
7.maverickmoneymakers.com
8.magicofmakingup.com
9.truthaboutabs.com
10.moneysiphonsystem.com
These top 10 Clickbank Product domain names all have many of the attributes mentioned above. Also notice they all teach something that appeals to mass audiences. Half of them claim to teach you how to make more money, which is probably the biggest niche there is. All of these products make hundreds of dollars a day for their owners, some of them make thousands of dollars a day, and mostly all they are are digital information products that anyone can create.
So in summary, put some time into picking your domain name. It will pay off, and its a big factor in your online success.
For more info, a great blog that I read and recommend is How To Make My Blog. Top notch information on Pro Blogging from a successful blogger who really gets it.
If you have any comments or questions please feel free to leave them! See you in the next post.
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