Hello all, I am trying to make a blog with loads of articles and I want to do my best to give it a head start in regards to SEO. I have already gathered a lot of keywords and have already written lots of articles around a specific niche. Normally, if I were to make a mini-blog targeting 1 keyword, I would register a new domain that includes that keyword. I KNOW that this helps. My question is - what kind of a domain should I be looking for, for this "bigger" site? So, first of all, would an aged domain help or is it just like registering a new domain? Also, what kind of a domain should I be looking for? For example... if my wider niche is furniture and some of my keywords are: blue furniture, large bedroom furniture, super hot furniture etc.. Should the domain just include the word "furniture" so that it is related to all my keywords? Should it be more specific? Does it even matter or can I just use a somewhat unrelated domain for as long as it is aged? Last but not least, most of the domains that I can get my hands on are not sites. Thus, they are either not indexed or they just have 1 page indexed which is most likely a "parked page". Is that ok? I know that the best thing to do is to buy an already active website, but since I can't do that, I am trying to do the second best. Really looking forward to your replies. Thank you! P.S. If my post doesn't make much sense, please ask me to clarify.
Please clarify, step by step. If you need to include actual details, PM me and I'll sanitize it for you in my public reply.
Sure. First of all - thank you once again Dan for taking the time to help me out. 1) I carefully researched several keywords and selected a few that are all closely related. For the purpose of making this easier to understand - lets assume that the site will be about "making money online". I have found many keywords that are related to that main theme such as "how to make money online" and "make money from your site" etc. 2) I wrote about 50 articles (each targeting some of those keywords) and I am now ready to post them on my new site. 3) All I need to do now in order to get started, is to find the ideal domain to put my site on. If I were to register a brand new domain, the perfect domain would be makingmoneyonline.com - Do you agree? I have found that having your main keyword in your domain really helps your site rank better. However, I have heard that aged domains rank better than new regs, since they are more trustworthy. So, I am thinking of buying an aged domain. Obviously, I wouldn't be able to find an aged domain with my exact keyword in it. Even if I could, that would probably be very expensive. So, what would be a good domain (and one that's within a limited budget)? Would it be enough for my domain to just have the gist of the theme in it? For example - in the example above - would a 5 year old EarnCashWithSites.com work or would I be better off registering a new and more keyword targeted domain such as HowToMakeMoneyOnline.com? Again - if this is confusing, please ask me to clarify further hehe I don't know why I am writing like that today. I guess it could be the fact that I have a bunch of articles ready and I can't wait to use them!
No problem. Okay, so you're employing staged promotion techniques here. That's a good start. Are you also mixing and matching keywords together to form a common phrase that targets several keywords in your page titles? (I'll PM you an actual example I'll be using on my own Web site's redesign.) Okay. I would agree. The only thing that comes with the territory of an older domain is the links that point to it. Other than that there really isn't much of a benefit to having an older domain. (Note: I'm saying there IS a benefit, but it's not the end-all be-all that many SEOs make it out to be.) What about the other TLDs? There's a .com I want that somebody's parked and once the site goes live (I acquired the .info for it, yet the .net and .org were available) the asking price is just bound to go up. Honestly? I'd let the competitive keyword research and analysis you did (along with domain availability research) determine that for you -- along with the objective of the site. Nope, I think I got the gist of what you were saying.
Yeap - I am trying to do that too Looking forward to your PM. To be quite honest.. I don't know whether there is a real benefit to it or not. Obviously, if the domain has relevant backlinks or maybe some PR, it's an obvious advantage, but if it doesn't - who knows? It's just that I hear so many SEOs talking about it, so I thought that there might be some truth in it. Other TLDs... I actually haven't considered anything other than .com. I plan to work a lot on that site and com is the undisputed king, so I really want to stick with that. I have also noticed, that it's a little easier to rank with com domains.. Not sure if it's true - maybe I was just biased hehe Hmmm... not sure I follow. I have found the keywords and I know which domains are within my grasp, however, I am not sure which one would be best in terms of SEO for what I am trying to do. If I decide to get an aged domain - I wouldn't want to contact individual sellers for it cause I have done that in the past (as a domainer) and they tend to ask for just too much. Thus, I'd have to search the forums for any offers or maybe look through TDNAM. I have done that and I am basically down to about 10 domains If I decide to go for a new domain (which according to many SEOs would make my life harder), the options are endless. But I am leaning towards the aged domain. So glad you did Thanks again Dan!