Comments on: 9 Ways to Find a Domain Name for Any Site

By: Kathleen@bedelki.comon

Kathleen@bedelki.comon — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 03:29:00 +0000

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By: Dean Salibaon

Dean Salibaon — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:04:00 +0000

This might be of use to me the next time I try and buy some new domains and I normally struggle to think of good domain names, hence why my blog about MMO is I Need Discipline.

By: Slavko Desikon

Slavko Desikon — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:35:00 +0000

@Lucy such a link is already gone and devalued in the eyes of Google. Read my comment above. It is useful in the sense of being logical and easy to brand from a user point of view, but has nothing to do with actual ranking factors.

By: Lucyon

Lucyon — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 02:29:00 +0000

This is no surprise at all about Google expecting a link between your site name and the content that you publish. Going by the recent changes in the Google’s strategies, this was only a matter of time. Therefore businesses while choosing their brand names have got to choose it wisely so that it is relevant to their site. The tips that you have mentioned are certainly effective in choosing the best brand name possible.

By: Josephon

Josephon — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:05:00 +0000

When you are building a website the first thing that you need to do is to think a very unique but search engine friendly name of a domain. This will be the soul of your website, it will also represent the content that your website represents.

By: Slavko Desikon

Slavko Desikon — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:16:00 +0000

Great advice here, but I would have to say that searching for domains for SEO purposes is something that is useless nowadays. Since Google devalued EMD’s (exact match domains) as a ranking factor it is clearly obvious that you shouldn’t think in terms of having a keyword in the domain name.

By: John Burnsideon

John Burnsideon — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:34:00 +0000

I have to say that I think it is so hard to find a great domain name that isn’t taken already or you don’t have to pay loads of money for. It can be really hard work but finding the right name is key, people need to remember it to be able to find it again and come back

By: John Burnsideon

John Burnsideon — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:34:00 +0000

By: Alex Morrison

Alex Morrison — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:36:00 +0000

I don’t think you need to “blend in” a target keyword, so long as your business is well advertised. Look at the British firm MoonPig. They’re a unique gift card company and, following a catchy and surreal advert, they’re doing really well. So slinging together two arbitrary nouns can often lead to great things!

By: Flexus solutionon

Flexus solutionon — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 07:57:00 +0000

Name.com is the best site for searching the new domain.

By: Rinkeshon

Rinkeshon — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:50:00 +0000

Every time I look out for a domain name, I always try to choose a generic domain name. You can use such kind of name with any kind of website, specially when you are not sure, what niche you would be targeting in future.

By: Hamza Sheikhon

Hamza Sheikhon — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:36:00 +0000

Hmm.. sounds interesting! Well, if these tools work like a charm then it means we are wasting hours on researching the user-friendly and SEO based domain names for yet another blog / website idea.

By: Ehsan Ullahon

Ehsan Ullahon — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:17:00 +0000

Hey Fred, Finding a good and SEO friendly domain name isn’t that hard. You need to think out of the box in order to find a good domain name.
Well, I’ve used Bust a Name tool which is really a great one!

By: Moravcsik Andraon

Moravcsik Andraon — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:38:00 +0000

Awesome post

By: Matt Mazuron

Matt Mazuron — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:20:00 +0000

Nice article Fred! I’m the creator of Lean Domain Search, one of the resources you mention in the post, and I just want to re-emphasize to anyone considering a domain name that how easy it is to pronounce and spell are the two key characteristics that you need to pay attention to.

By: Chimezirim Odimbaon

Chimezirim Odimbaon — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:26:00 +0000

Short and memorable domain names are great. If you can blend in your target keyword, great. But I’d rather focus on being memorable more than anything else. This guarantees type in traffic as your business establishes itself.

By: Anthonyon

Anthonyon — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:22:00 +0000

Some great advice here Fred. With Google’s recent exact match domain update in September it is now more important than ever for a new business or new blog to choose a domain name that isn’t keyword rich but rather brand name like you advise here.