10 Awesome Tips To Choose a Good Domain Name

Do you know what the first and most important step of being a successful blogger is?
Yeah, you’re right. It’s a good domain name.
These days domain name plays a huge role in everyone’s internet presence and it is the key to your success in blogging or any other online business.
In this post I’m gonna show you 10 awesome tips on how to choose a good domain name for your blog or website. I know this isn’t a new topic, but I’m sure the tips which you will read here will be something new for you which you never knew before.
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How to choose a good domain name:

 

So, Consider these 10 points before choosing a domain name for your blog or website.

1. It must be related to the topic:

Choose a domain name related to the topic of your blog. The worse mistake which some people are making when selecting a domain name is that they are registering their own name as a domain name and they are blogging about Technology or Marketing.

2. Search for a popular domain name:

You can easily collect the attention of people by choosing a popular blog’s similar domain name in your niche.
For example, if your niche is Blogging than the most popular blog in blogging niche is “ProBlogger.net”, now you need to search for a similar domain names like “ProBlogging.com”, “Pro-Blogger.com”, “Bloggingpro.com” and “ProBlogTips,com” etc.
I’m sure by doing this you will find a good domain name for your blog.

3. Make it easy to type and remember:

You will lose the value of your blogging, branding and marketing if your domain name is difficult to type and remember due to it’s length, spelling or any unremembered word.
Good domain names are easily typed and easily memorable, so make sure it’s short and easy to type.

“Onlinefurniture.com” rocks, “Online-cheap-furniture-for-sale.com” sucks!

4. Choose a .com available domain name:

If you want to start a blog for fun, branding, time pass or name recognition than you don’t need to worry about .com, .net or .org domain names, but if you want to be a successful blogger over long term than you should be worried about these elements and try to find .com available domain name.

5. Brainstorm the top keywords:

If it is difficult for you to find a good domain name than you have to brainstorm some top keywords related to your topic. You can do it using Google Adwords keywords tool. To do this, go to Google Adwords keyword tools, enter your main keyword or topic in the “Keyword or Phrase” box and hit “Search” button.
It will display a huge list of keywords ideas for that topic with the global monthly searches and local monthly searches.
You can choose one of those keywords which has a good number of monthly searches with low competition as domain name for your blog.

6. Use Hyphens:

Unfortunately if your first chosen domain name is unavailable than you can use hyphens between the keywords and see if they’re available. For example, If “Startingablog.com” isn’t available than you can search for “Starting-a-blog.com” available domains.

7. Keep It Short:

Do your best to keep your domain name as short as possible because the short names are easy to type and easy to remember.

8. Avoid Numerals:

I have seen many domain names using numerals, but you have to stay away from numerals when choosing a domain name because most time the second time visitors forgets the numerals and they only type the words, therefor they enter to another website.

9. Use catchy words with your keyword:

Grab people’s attention by using catchy words in your domain name. If your niche is Health or Fitness than you can use words like “Geekylifestyle.com” or something similar like this.

10. Use online tools to search a good domain name:

There are a lot of online tools which can help you to find a perfect domain name for your business, blog or website. Bust a name is a tool which I used ones and is an awesome tool to search for a good domain names.
Your turn:
I’ve spend many hours by brainstorming came out with these 10 tips for choosing a good domain name, I didn’t get any idea from other websites.
how do you choose a good domain name? Tell us by leaving a comment below. Remember, I love your comments!