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[H1382]How To Make Domain Name
by Scott Bianchi, Sco

You have been thinking of starting your own website. You have done some preliminary research and you are ready to go, all you need to do now is pick your domain name. Pretty simple, right? Well, it is not as simple as most people think, including myself. I thought it would be the easiest part of starting my website but you really need to put some thought into it.

You need a website name that is memorable. You can do all the work on the website you want but if people don't remember your name it will be hard to get them to come back. You also need a name that is somewhat relevant to the content of your site. Here is where you begin to run into some roadblocks however. With the amount of websites being created (it is estimated there will be 500 million sites created by the end of the decade) the availability of the real popular names is limited. Now you need to consider multiple word names and this is where it becomes even more tricky.

To make things a bit easier to understand I will use my own domain name as an example, because I learned the hard way. With any website you need to concern yourself with SEO (search engine optimization). This is basically a formula of what the search engines use to look up websites when someone punches in a keyword. The sites that play this game right will find themselves on the first couple of pages for their given keyword. When I first chose my domain name I went with www.bestinternetbargains.com. Not a bad name, so I thought. Pretty straightforward on what I would be focusing my site on, right? When I picked the name I knew nothing of SEO. I thought you created a site and BAM, it appeared on Google in the number one spot.

A major part of SEO is links to other sites. The actual wording you use in the link that appears on other sites is called the “anchor text”. This is one of the major things searches engines use in ranking the pages. In most cases you get to determine what your anchor text will be. But, if you write articles like this one, and you put your website in the signature and people post your articles that counts as a link with anchor text. So, in my case I have had many people publish my articles, which is great, but the anchor text appeared as bestinternetbargains. Not many people are doing searches in Google or any of the search engines for that word. This was hurting my SEO. I was the only site found for that search word so that was great, but I was the only one doing that search. Recently I changed my name to www.best-internet-bargains.com. Same name but the dashes make all the difference. It separates all the words. Now if someone publishes one of my articles my anchor text would be those three different words. With the combination of articles being published and any links I exchange with other sites I can now make my anchor text internet bargains and increase my chances of appearing high in the rankings for those search words.

As you can see, something as simple as some dashes in the name can make a huge difference. If you are lucky enough to find a one word domain to be available that is related to your site content then you do not need to worry about the dashes obviously. As I mentioned before, this is unlikely to happen. If you have read my other articles about starting your own website you will see that I have mentioned SEOelite (http://hop.clickbank.net/sbianchi/bryxen1). This is the tool I used to help me with the anchor text breakdown. It does many important things in addition to breaking down your anchor text such as, allowing you to examine your competition's website so you know what you need to beat to take the top ranking for your keyword search. For example, let's say I am the number one site for the keywords internet bargains. If my anchor text uses these words 90% of the time then you will know you need to be at 91# to take the top spot for those keywords. It will allow you to breakdown the sites your competition is linked to, which is important in the SEO formula as well. This tool was the best $167 I have spent on my website. I highly recommend it if you want your site to be ranked highly.

Building a website is probably the easiest part of having a site. You need to pick the right domain name, created the right content (which SEOelite will also teach you how to do), write effective meta tags, and find quality linking partners. Now that you have read this, and hopefully found it useful, get to picking that domain name. I hope to see your site on the internet soon.


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The purpose of this article is to introduce you to a way to make large amounts of money that very few people know of, called domain name wildcarding. But more than just giving you practical information about this single strategy, I want to walk you through what it takes to identify a new opportunity for business and profit that has been made possible by rapid changes in communication technology. Due to the fast-paced nature of technoogical proliferation, the internet of 1-5 years from now will be much different than the internet of today, and it will be the men and women who can take in and understand all of this new technology and what it means for society, and then identify and take advantage of the new opportunities presented who will be the financial juggernauts of tomorrow. I want you to be one of these new tech-savvy modern moguls.

What is Domain Name Wildcard Redirecting?

Before we go any further, I want to explain to you exactly what the concept of a 'wildcard' means in internet terms. A wildcard is basically a domain name that does not exist, or for a search engine it can be a string of words that have never been searched before. In fact Google states that a significant amount of all of its searches (over 25%) are wildcards, meaning that when a person does their search they are the first person ever to type those exact words in that exact order. So if you were to type a domain name directly into your web browser and you made a typo, and the typo version was not registered, this would be a wildcard.

For example, the most popular top-level domain that you are probably already familiar with is 'com,' but the top-level domain 'cm' is called a country code TLD and is dedicated to the country of Cameroon. So if a person were to type in a certain domain name and accidentally forgot to type the 'o,' then they would be redirected to the domain name servers of Cameroon. Probably one of the most notable and press-worthy examples of making money with domain name wildcarding is Kevin Ham dealing directly with the government of Cameroon so that anytime a person on the internet makes a typo and forgets to type the 'o' and the resulting 'cm' domain name is not registered, they will be redirected to one of his websites.

There is a good chance that you might not be in a position to take advantage of the opportunity presented by domain name wildcarding, because you will need a very large budget in order to even compete in this esoteric industry. In fact, if you have some serious spending power and decide to really get into this market, you will be going up against companies like Verisign and large internet service providers. It will also help if you are experienced in software and web development and have a good background knowledge of how the domain name industry works, otherwise your competition will soar ahead of you.

If however, you do have the courage and spending power to venture into this realm, there are many opportunites that are just coming into existence. If you are reading this article then you are probably aware of the new 'asia' top level domain that has recently been launched and the resulting corporate spending spree that it created. There will probably be a new wave of controversy following this and other internet industry developments, and if you are savvy enough to see the signs then you might be in a position to take advantage of massive opportunity.

Verisign is one of the main companies that competes in this industry, but many internet service providers (ISPs) are also getting into the mix by creating their own landing page anytime a domain name is typed into a web browser that does not exist. Most of the time these landing pages redirect to a search page with results related to the words in the mistyped domain name and also sponsored results, which is how they make money.

Applying the Wildcard Concept to Search Engine Optimization

Another way that you can make money with wildcards on the internet has to do with search engine optimization. As an example, many people are coming online looking for ways to create an online income so that they can quit their job, so a term like 'e-commerce' will have a lot of competition in the search engines. But if you were to take a longer term such as 'make money with only a laptop,' there is a chance that long multi-word search terms like this are wildcards or at best only get a handful of searches per day. If you could get even just 3 links pointing to your webpage with a long and hardly used keyword, and if you also incorporate this keyword into the title and header tags of the page, then you will very likely rank at the top when anybody searches for this term.

So in conclusion, the bottom line is this: Domain name wildcard redirecting, if you have the resources to take advantage of it, can be a stellar way to get free visitors that you can redirect to any website you deem fit. But moreover, reading through this article has been a mental exercise that should make you more able to identify new opportunities as they come about from changing technology.
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