How do I pick a good domain name?

ok I thought I had this great domain name, ugottareadthisnow.com. I thought it was good because it's general, meaning I could totally redo the site if need be and it would fit for any product. I also thought the name provoked interest. But someone told me it was spammy and worth nothing. So now I'm back to square one with my venture in building a website. Bam! I hit another wall. Please tell me how to pick a good domain name. Plllleeease.

 

Think of a catch phrase and incorporate it into a domain.

 

it's not that bad at all. you can also have the option of something short + easy to remember + catchy

 

First you should decide what subject/topic you want your website to be about. Choose something that you are genuinely interested in and knowledgeable about.

Now think about the main keywords that yuou would want searchers to find your website by. Try to include the main ones in your domain name.

The domain name you suggested isnt too bad but I would say to use you instead of u.

 

yeh ugottareadthisnow.com doesnt sound right...

1st u need to choose the sites theme, subject, genre...etc and then think of the suitable domain name..

 

First what is your site going to be? What will you offer people that visit your web site? Also what would make them want to bookmark your site?

Will it be a blog site, or a games site, maybe some kind of service to them?

I would think of all this before trying to figure out a domain.

 

it's no good sorry

 

Read some about keyword research. Your domain should incorporate some of the keywords you want to target, normally. Granted, people have been successful without that (Godaddy, yahoo being a couple), but normally, keywords in your domain help the search engines realize what your website about.

For this reason, you might find it difficult to get search engine traffic on such a website.

 

Good domain Name? First of all you should know what is your main market Target then whether how you would like to promote your website.

If you need to do SEM on main Marketing Promoting it choose the domain with target keywords. If not regist domain with short phrase and easy memorization.

 

a good keyword research is needed for that
Here is a good explanation
http://www.jimkarter.com/2009-01-15-keyword-research-is-tricky.html
hope this helps you

 

that domain is definatly horrible.

ugottareadthisnow.com

Exspecially in the red because I'm sure a ton of people will miss spell right here. Then the part with the "SNOW", man when two words collide into one it sure looks funny. This domain name has got low level written all over it and I know you can do a million times better.

Its not brandable, its not small, its not easy to read, not easy to spell, and not keyword rich.

The only thing it does have is that it is probably "catchy". I don't think it is myself, but others may thing that. So basically if they read it right, spell it right, not find it in google, and arn't looking of a world class site then you may get a visitor.

Picking a domain is very hard for some people, but for myself its easy.

When you pick a domain you need to follow certain rules:

Do you want brandable? or Keyword rich.

For Example an arcade:

Drivinggame.net - that's keyword rich. It obvious that the owner(me) had looked at the adwords keywords checker and found that the Keyword "driving games" is getting tons of traffic so he(me) figured that he's grasp a hold of the search engine position on top because of the name. (Yes the name helps but you do need to SEO the site).

PCfaculty.com - That's Brandable. No one in the world is going to be looking for PC, computers, etc and colleges at the same time. But read it again PC Faculty. The name sounds like some sort of Future Shop type place or some school for only computer related skills to be learned. You'll remember the name because its brandable.

Here, maybe here will help (copied from peerhut.com(another "brandable" domain).

 

I agree with the others.. very difficult to remember and also type

 

If you need other to pick domains for you, you'll never succeed. Target your domain name tword what's actually offered there, that tends to work pretty well.

A weight loss blog by some gal named amanda, would have a very appropriate domain name of amandaweightloss.com or amandasweightblog.com. Or hell, you could just totally make up a word and hope it goes viral.

 

Yup.

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Also, don't focus on just the com extention. If you find a good one, but it is a NET or, even a FM, snatch it up. I have the FM (TheList.FM), and it is better than the com, one of the reasons being it has a different look to it. I had to pay four times more, but fuck it. It worked out in the end.

Think outside the box.

 

this domain is good if you are surely providing great readable content..it must be interesting..

there have been many websites that have such domain name.. for example icanhascheeseburger.com

it is very popular..

 

This is not a great domain name. Chose a shorter one.

 

eww, disregard that. If you are planned on looking in a diff. ext. then please stay with .net, .com, .biz, org, or .info(if your not too serious).

Don't mess with those off one's such as .fm. If you don't believe me then do a couple of searches with google and you'll find that there is only a handful around that have made it. I don't think I've even been to a .fm site before in my life.

 

I don't care too much about search engines, there noob. *chuckles* I care about having a good domain name, getting a lot of quality consistent traffic, with a low bounce rate.

 

To me a domain name easy should be easy to read. ugottareadthisnow is not
In addition it sounds amateur a little bit.
Even if you don't have a business related site I think your domain must have some kind of professional look.

You may want to consider separating two or three of your keywords with an hyphen. Hyphens help when you want to make your name easy to read. And search engines can see your keywords more easily.