Have You Made This Domain Name Mistake?
When I accidentally evolved into a writing coach for folks on the web, I struggled with creating an identity for myself. I had already built a pretty popular site and brand in one particular niche and people called me by the moniker that I gave myself in that niche. I was stuck for weeks like that. I just didn’t know what to do.
I worked with a coach who recommended that I use my name as my branding position as a writing coach. She thought my last name was memorable and not many people were going to have it on the web. She was right about that. What she didn’t tell me though, was that I wasn’t a celebrity, so people were not going to naturally search for my name yet. They didn’t know me. They were going to find me through other keywords such as “writing” or “article marketing”.
So without that knowledge, I went on to make the same mistake that I had essentially made with my first business as well…So what was my domain name mistake? I did not secure and buy a keyword rich domain name for my main site. I reserved my name.
Even years later when I check my website statistics, most people that find me organically – find me through keywords that I have optimized my site and articles for. Not my name. So that even furthers my proof that I should have reserved a keyword rich domain name rather my first and last name.
Okay, So Why Is This Important?
Through my years of article marketing, I have become somewhat of an SEO expert, and now know just how much importance search engines like Google place on having a keyword rich domain name. In case you are wondering, they place a LOT of importance on it.
What this means is that if I had reserved a name like articlemarketing dot com, my articles would have fared a lot better, and ranked a lot faster, in the search engines.
Now when I write and publish an article to my site, my articles are ranked within 24 hours, but it took a long time to build that type of traffic and importance with the search engines. That didn’t happen right away. I know that if I had had a keyword rich domain name – it probably would have happened a lot faster.
Next time you conduct a search, notice the domain names of the websites that appear in the top results. Sure there are a few whose URLs are completely off topic but they are usually very high traffic authority sites like major newspapers, television, encyclopedia sites, etc. The others are keyword rich (not so famous) sites that could be one of ours!
Last Advice
1 – If you are new to the internet and have not yet built your website/blog, then make sure to secure a keyword rich domain name right away and make that your PRIMARY URL.
2 – If you are already on the web but your website is only a few months old – I’d make the switch to a proper URL.
3 – If you have been on the web for awhile and have a lot of content like me, it wouldn’t make sense to switch your URL now because your content has probably already been crawled and appears in the search engine results. Changing the URLs could mean broken links and a lot of frustration. Trust me – I tried it.
So what you could do is purchase keyword rich domain names that you can use for landing pages, squeeze pages, redirects, sales pages, etc. Having those pages pointing to your main site will help your standing in the search engines, and are almost as good as having a keyword rich primary domain name.
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New Hampshire is an important state in the north east of the U.S. It is surrounded by Massachusetts in the South, Vermont and Connecticut in the west, the Canadian state of Quebec in North West and Maine and the Atlantic Ocean in the east. The state is flanked by Boston, New York and Montreal. It lies between the latitudes of 40 and 42 and the longitudes of 70 and 37, west. Its length is 180 miles and width is 50 miles. It is the seventh smallest state in U.S.
The geographical center of this state is 3 miles on the eastern side of the town of Ashland. The physical features of New Hampshire show that the highest point in the state is Mount Washington, situated at the height of 6288 feet, north of the city of Berlin. The lowest point of New Hampshire is the Atlantic Ocean at sea level, where the approximate mean elevation is 1000 feet, or 305 m. The Atlantic Ocean is situated off south- east New Hampshire. The map flaunts the river Merrimack, flowing by the city of Manchester. In between the city of Conway and Franklin lies the Great Lake. Connecticut forms the western border of New Hampshire.
The map of New Hampshire shows the White Mountains of the Appalachian range, in the north central part of the state. The topography includes the seven different regions the seacoast, Dartmouth, the lakes region, Merrimack Valley, Monadnock Region, White Mountains and the Great North Woods.
The map shows New Hampshire as a state surrounded by water bodies and mountain ranges, making it personify natural beauty and charm. The land has a rugged terrain that enhances its presence on the map of the U.S. Its geographical location and proximity to the sea, makes it a popular tourist attraction.
If you have been surfing around trying to find the information to download creative zen software, then you are not alone. A lot of people are in the same situation as you are. You can download software for your creative zen for a price, or you can download it for free. Then there is a third option. You can download all of the software you want. The music, the movies and videos, but with care. Everything is not as it may seem.
Downloading all the free stuff from a free download site does have some strings attached to it. Many of the free sites have pop-ups and spyware looking for you. You will leave yourself wide open when you visit these free sites that offer software. When your computer becomes infected with spyware or adware, you have no choice but to shut down your operation and finding someone to fix your computer.
Once your identity has been hacked, this opens up a whole world of problems that offsets any advantages to getting your free creative zen software. Now you have to be more concerned about real disaster. Any financial information you have is now at risk of being exploited.
Because of the risks involved with visiting these “so called” free download sites, this is not really an option anyone should take. The possible disadvantages far out weigh any advantages you may have considered. These free sites should never be an option. Take this off your list.
Paying for your downloads is a better option to consider when going after a few of your favorite songs you have been trying to find. At least you will get them without having to worry about being hacked and disgraced. Because there are not very many pay per sites available that cater to zen software, your choices are limited. Also, if you want to really load up, the price will be steep without question.
The last option is by far the best route to getting all of the software for your creative zen you ever thought possible.
Join a software download site. The cost is going to be your one time membership fee. After this is paid, you are a full member and can download as much as your heart desires for free. Yes, that is right – free. You do not need a calculator to add up your savings by going this option. Unlimited downloads for a one time membership fee suddenly looks very attractive now.
Over five million active users that belong to these memberships sites cannot be wrong. Isn’t it time you began to think about your options?
