Most Potential
When choosing a domain name, there is a lot of information nowadays on the need to integrate keywords. On the other hand, there are plenty of businesses out there that are making it into the most popular websites list which have domain names containing nothing more than the name of the business itself.
The reason we are pointing out this fact is to shed a different light on the common topic of needing an SEO friendly domain name. Even though everyone on the web is talking about SEO and its ever growing importance in website popularity, the most popular websites became that way through well thought out and executed marketing and branding campaigns.
- 1) Google
- 2) Yahoo
- 3) Youtube
- 4) Live
- 5) Facebook
As you can see, these websites lack a keyword rich domain name and are purely the name of the business. Further on, the list contains MySpace, Wikipedia, and Flickr, all of which appear to have domain names with the business name. Again, these sites were able to achieve popularity on the web without needing to produce a keyword driven domain name. For such sites, the most potential probably relied on a great marketing and branding campaign as opposed to such SEO tactics.
Domain Names
- Whois
- Domain Parking
- Name Servers
- Transfer Domain Names
- Expired Domain Names
- URL Forwarding
- Subdomains
Choosing a Domain
- Keep It Short
- Dot What?
- Use Keywords in the Domain
- Avoid Trademarked Names
- Already Registered?
