Choose A DomainHelping You Choose the Perfect Domain

This is the first article in a series called The Three Domain Types.

Keyword Domains are the first type of domain that I will discuss. Keyword Domains are domains where the name is a keyword that people type into search engines. People search for “Dog Training” on search engines, so an example keyword domain would be dogtraining.com or dogtraining.net.

Let’s continue using DogTraining.com as an example. Google’s Keyword Tool says that “Dog Training” gets over 1 million searches a month. Now this example is a little extreme, and if you look you will see that none of the major extensions for DogTraining is available. While you may think all of the popular keyword domains are taken, they are not. You can still find some very good keyword domains out there, but you have to look for them. I have recently found some great keyword domains, like this one. “Choose A Domain” gets about 900 searches a month. This may not seem like much, but coupled with the fact that the domain was perfect for the content I am writing, and I have an excellent domain name.

I will go into finding keyword domains in a later post, but what you are looking for are keywords that get a lot of searches in search engines. The more searches these keywords get, the more valuable they are. The reason for this is that search engines give a higher ranking to keyword domains. KeywordDomain.com will rank high in search engines for the search “Keyword Domain”. If you think about it, most of the time, KeywordDomain.com should be about keyword domains, so they would add value to a person looking for keyword domains.

As you can see from previous examples, keyword domains are extension independent. This means, when it comes to keyword domains, dogtraining.com and dogtraining.net have the same value. Now, the .com obviously has more value overall, but speaking strictly about keyword domains, the domain extension does not matter. So don’t be discourgaed if you cannot find every name in .com. I currently have a few .nets, and even a few .infos, and they do just as well or even better than my .com domains.