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by Halstatt Pires, Hal

Domain Names and Search Engine Optimization

Search engine optimization is simply an effort to get pages on your site to rank high in the natural or organic listings on various search engines with Google, Yahoo and MSN being the most important. Taking this approach to online marketing requires a lot of planning, patience and work. Unfortunately, many people get off on the wrong foot when the pick their domain name.

Selecting a domain name is often viewed as a simple process. Most businesses will simply use their offline business name or something off the top of their head. Others will try to pick something that is catchy, so visitors will hopefully remember the name and come back to buy more. If you are planning on pursuing search engine optimization, the approaches will not kill you. That being said, there is a better way to pick your domain.

One of the interesting things about most search engines is they put a significant amount of value on the words in the root of a domain name. By root, I mean the words between www and the dot com, net or whatever you are using. Simply put, even a moderate optimization effort will usually lead to the site appearing high under the phrase in the domain name. Given this fact, it is important to think long and hard about the domain you use.

One approach used by many people doing search engine optimization is to match keyword phrases and domains. The idea is to research keyword phrases being used by people in your particular field and then buy domains matching those phrases. For a simple example, consider the fact that many people search for ?puppy names?. If you want to build a site about puppies, you would ideally want to buy the domain puppynamesdotcom. Such a site could be optimized and obtain fairly high rankings with a moderate amount of effort.

Obviously, keyword phrases with tons of traffic have already been taken. This should not discourage you, however. Work your way down the phrases identified by whatever research tool you are using. You will be surprised to find that many of the phrases are available. Build a site on one of the domains and you should find your optimization efforts leading to successful results.

They will tell you all types of things like: "You're not Business material." "You can't make a living working for yourself." "You'll fail because nobody can ever make any money that way."

Being an entrepreneur is not just about having a lot of ideas or business sense. It is also about having a lot of guts. You have to build self-confidence in yourself. You have to only be concerned with pleasing yourself.

Then, when you should fail with this particular venture, you'll just dust yourself off and start again. It doesn't matter if people think you're nuts. They aren't paying your rent and running your life. Don't be concerned with what people "think" you should be.

Simply please yourself and do what you feel is right. People are too busy competing with society and "keeping up with the Jones's" that they do things they are not comfortable with just to appease them and look normal whatever that is.

And if you have to, start out small in building your self confidence. I used to be so self-conscious that I would never go to a public event alone because I thought people would believe I was lonely and had no friends.

Unbelievable, but true. Everyday I worked on walking into public places adjusting to their environment. I'd take a magazine or would be by myself. I would glance around, and to my amazement, no one ever looked at me. No one cared that I was alone. Then it dawned on me. "Who cares what these people think? I'll never see them again." Besides, there were a lot of other people all by themselves also and I could absorb myself in the magazine I had took to read. Now I can enjoy the comfort of being by myself and not give any thought to the people around me.

When most people do fail in business they try to "save face" by telling everyone they are "just in a slump" and every thing will be back to normal soon. Besides, they don't want people to say: "I told you so" and destroy any pride they are still hanging onto. Unfortunately, this only delays the problem and creates even more false hope for the people in your life as well as yourself.

The best thing to do for anybody in this catastrophe is to swallow their pride and admit they screwed up. Just face it head on! Admit that you were so proud of your accomplishments that your mind became diluted with "visions of sugar plums and fantasyland."

If your small business is beyond repair, go out and find a job and begin working on your next small business in the near future. Keep your family fed and your financial obligations met but look forward to the day when you will succeed with your new business venture.

And why should you try again? Simply because you won't make the same mistakes you made this time. If you built some thing successful before, but failed, you are certain to build the next business stronger and wiser. Even if you fail the second time, it won't be because of mistakes you made the first time. You'll learn more and more and eventually be successful.

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