What Are Domains and Why Are They Important?
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And why do I care what a domain is?
You’re presumably interested in Article Marketing because you have a website to promote. Yes, you could promote an affiliate site, but that way you’ll be promoting the same site as most other affiliates. Far better to have your own website that lets you distinguish yourself from the crowd.
If you’re not an HTML wizard a good intermediate approach is to have a blog – like this one – which lets you personalize your message by adding your own posts. Check out the posts in the blogging category for more information on blogging.
But when you have a website / blog you need a domain name through which the rest of the world can access it. A domain name is the bit before the .com, .org, .net, .co.uk, etc.
Picking the WRONG domain is a big mistake that many people make when they’re just starting a site.
And once it’s done incorrectly, it’s a lot of effort to fix, and you’ll have wasted the work done before you fix it.
Sites that choose the RIGHT domain name can achieve faster, higher rankings in the search engines – with far fewer links than competitors who have selected poorly optimized domains.
So when you pick the wrong domain, getting high rankings (and traffic!) can become a struggle – with more effort, more time and more links required to get the same results.
Moreover, it isn’t just the domain name that matters, it’s the age of the domain. Google prefers older domains over newer ones. While you might imagine there’s nothing you can do about that, in fact there’s a lot! Instead of just picking a new domain and registering that, you can choose to register an “aged domain”, and tap into its authority in much the same way that you can buy an aged whiskey.
So how do you find good domain names and aged domains?
Domain Samurai is software (download it below) that helps you quickly find high value, highly optimized domains in your market. This is from the same stable as Market Samurai, an excellent piece of software I recommend elsewhere in these pages for your keyword research.
Here are the main benefits of Domain Samurai:
- Quickly discover keyword optimized domains in your market that you can register immediately
Send the results of your keyword research straight into the “Domains” module, and find out in seconds what the best SEO optimized domains are for your site. - Select from 19 domain types (.com, .org, .net etc), add hyphens, prefixes or suffixes – and uncover hidden dynamite domains
- Find profitable Aged Domains in seconds: Connect Domain Samurai to the powerful DomainFace database to automatically search 100,000s of domain sales and auctions; Find dozens of keyword-relevant domains for sale with pagerank, domain age, backlinks and even traffic, in no time.
- See trusted SEO data about Aged Domains at a glance. Sort and filter by Domain Age, PageRank, domain keyword densities, backlinks, indexed pages….
- Free training and excellent end user support
- And much, much more…
Hmmm, sounds good doesn’t it? But you may imagine it’s expensive, and if you haven’t earned a penny online yet, do you want to spend money on yet another tool?
Well, the good news is that at the time of writing (May 2010) Domain Samurai is free of charge. I can’t guarantee it will stay that way so download Domain Samurai quickly, and start using it before your competitors grab the best domains.
Here’s where you can get your copy of Domain Samurai right now
Review of Domain Samurai
My own experience of using the package is that I entered the main keyword for a different niche that I promote and within less than a minute it had found me a brilliant domain name, about to expire and become available, and at a very affordable price. The user interface was intuitive, it worked fast, and as a very happy Market Samurai user I know that their end-user support is excellent, so I give this new package an unqualified recommendation.
You may wonder if there’s a catch that Domain Samurai is currently free. Not really a catch, the fact is that there are commissions to be earned when domain names are registered, and registration of the domains that are found is where the profits are to be made. So that’s how the software can be made available free.
Download your copy of Domain Samurai right now
Of course, if you recommend it to others who then purchase domains, you can earn those commissions yourself.
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