Comments on: How to Find Your Best Joomla Domain Name

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 04:42:37 +0000

If possible try and register a domain name which includes one of your primary keywords. The benefits of doing this is that you can increase your click through rates from the SERPs plus it will help you build upon your keyword rich inbound links from other web sites.

By: Jonathon Bree

Jonathon Bree — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 05:17:47 +0000

It is so sometimes hard to find ourselves domain of our choice. But now a days so many extensions are available in market that you get lot of choices. But as u said the best international extensions are .com & .org. A very informative post but still feels many things are missing. So plzzz guys keep contributing ………. thanks to all

By: Eugene Radulov

Eugene Radulov — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:26:35 +0000

thanks, I was searching for info to find out more about using domain names, this was helpful for me.

By: free online virtual worlds

free online virtual worlds — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:02:12 +0000

My preferred choice is also .com, .net and .org

It’s also good if you’re able to get a .edu

The length of your domain name is equally important as well. 4 and 5 letters word domains are pretty hard to get.

Usually after I had created a new site on a new domain name, I will list it on a PR6 and above website because it helps to get Google to index it in 24-48 hours.

By: Herbert-Jan van Dinther

Herbert-Jan van Dinther — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:56:33 +0000

@Kai & Los Angeles: Yes, .Info domains are getting better and better these days and are slowly becomming a good choice if a . com domain is allready gone.

My preffered choice is still .com first, local domain namens like.nl second, then .net and .org or .info after that.
It all depends on the kind of visitors you want to target and what kind of site you want to build.

By: get ex back

get ex back — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:01:07 +0000

There are some .info sites that rank well and a lot of visitors go there. It is not true that it is for spam sites. However, a lot of spammers use that domain because first year is usually cheap.

-Kai

By: los angeles

los angeles — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:00:26 +0000

The domain name is definitely one of the most critical components of developing any online presence, both in terms of SEO, but also for user-perception of what the site/blog is all about.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:17:59 +0000

This post was definitely worth reading. I have a lot to consider!

By: Seiska Seven

Seiska Seven — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:16:53 +0000

Domain name is probably the best way to make a site seo friendly but I would not count on yahoo and bing for traffic or examples cause they act way different than google and that search engine is the only one that matters. If you have good visibility in G then you will get that same visibility in others too. Subdomains are coming more hard to rank for so use exact domain name.

By: Dolphin Hosting

Dolphin Hosting — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:03:14 +0000

It’s hard to find or get a good .com these days. I don’t exactly like hyphen sites, sites with numbers, .net, .org, or dot anything else. Something with a .com is preferred, but terribly hard to find a decent and easy to remember name, which also might fit someones niche.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:55:19 +0000

I think having any easy to remember and pronounce domain name would be important as well. It takes less time and money to brand a domain people will remember. But if one has quality content, I can see the benefit of a keyword rich domain.

By: web hosting review

web hosting review — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:48:25 +0000

One of my site not successfull using keyword targetted and almost same with very popular PR6 site. my site is http://www.reviewforjoomla.com, now i try to focus on my personal site http://www.andiwijaya.com. You right man google dont give much point on domain names, but PR yes.

By: SiteBetter

SiteBetter — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:30:14 +0000

Keywords domains can be very effective for SEO search. But they can also bet forgettable and awful with branding. Remember pets.com? Actually, better example is to name three travel sites. Is any one of them hotels.com?

I went for both. My site is new but I don’t get too many hits for “…how to make my site better…”

@Michigan City Pest Control: You just have to be creative. If a stand name like SanDiegoDentist.com is taklen then you can think of creative names like MySandDiegoDentist.com, etc.

By: Michigan City Pest Control

Michigan City Pest Control — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:15:39 +0000

this is hard because most of the simplest names are all gone, and i’m not going to pay thousands of dollars for a site i can pay just a few dollars for. you just have to be creative these days.

By: Phil Barnhart

Phil Barnhart — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:51:08 +0000

Good suggestion on using the Wayback machine. Sometimes those harmless-looking, perfectly-named domains may have a checkered past. Before picking up a domain name that may be banned or blocked due to previously delivering malware, trojans, or porn, you need to do a background check.

But you need to go beyond the Internet Archive. There is a free Domain Background Check cheat sheet at http://siteriver.com/domaintest.php – just enter the domain name you are researching and over a dozen links are created to domain check, anti-malware, and other tools. You can quickly check if your domain name is ready for business or is still on parole.