Thursday, January 3, 2008

Domain thinking experience and insights

Or just, Tips !

After some time, or months, you will know more and see things, you need your logic and analogical abilities to see domain names from more perspectives.

Related link - http://www.twothoughts.com/2007/10/two-thoughts.html

Not only domain names, also the markets, products, html and css tricks (if you do that), color studying (for you who use Adsense. By the way, most articles say that the 300 x 250 or that one a little bigger perform best (up to the left) and after that the 600 x 120 skyscaper (on the right side, since reading is from left to right).
In regards of adsens etc, you will probably come to the fact that it can be a lot better to have a www.FashionBlaBlaa.net instead of a www.FashionBlaaaBlaaaa.com because the last is too long, and people won´t remember it or they would be too lazy to type in the name again. You bet! People are lazy. I guess it is one reason that short domains make a shorter way to getting increased traffic. Put bookmark scripts on your pages. Put in links to the search engines, myspace and you tube. People might bookmark the site also because they find the combination of links useful. And if they come back, they will read your content if you work on it. If you add new links. Then they may give the url to others. Put in some funny pictures, be sure they will show their friends. You can change the one or more site colors after some time while saving the original css to switch back later on.

Oh and some more, you will realiez that hyphenated domains are found better by search engines. When search engines read a text, they don´t read ordinary names.
A "laptoppc"-domain will be read as laptoppc. There is no such word. A hyphenasted domain as "laptop-pc" will be read as laptop pc. When people search for laptop pc
the results may include pages where the hyphenated url is. If they click on the cached result it´ll show the link in color.

As times goes by. You read about others tips and you find your own. Still the first thing is to make content. Write, write and write. With made content you may go on to fine tune your sites later on.

But just don´t copy. And preferably, don´t tell your friends about your sites, you don´t want 300 clicks from the same ip, who thought he would "help" you.