Your domain name plays a big role in the success or failure of your website. So it’s the most important step when we think of creating a successful website. First thing that we need to do when we think of making money online with a website, is choosing a good domain name for our website. We can have a domain name of up to 67 characters which can contain alphabets, numbers and hyphens. But we should try to take a shortest but meaningful domain name for our website. All domains are started with an alphabet or number. Some of popular domain extensions are .com, .net, .org, .gov, .edu, .info etc.

Here is the list of tips you should keep in mind when you registering a domain name for your website:

1. List of keywords related to proposed domain – First of all, make a list of top keywords related to your domain name and its content. Then try different combinations with these keywords which are small, easy to remember, meaningful and related to your website niche. In case you are aiming at starting a personal blog or website, you can use your name, surname, hobby, and wife or son name as your domain name even.

2. Choose a meaningful domain – Sometimes we make the mistake of choosing small domain name which are no way related to our website niche. So it will be better to choose a longer domain name instead of a small name if it does not look meaningful and related to your website niche. Suppose I have a website about “make money with ClickBank”, shortest domain name I can try if it’s available can be mmcb.com which gives no hint at the kind of content I will be providing on that website. Other combinations I can try are cbmoney.com, cbmakemoney.com, makemoneycb.com,moneycb.com, cbcash.com, cbdollars.com etc which gives some hint at the niche of your website.

3. Easy to remember – Choose a domain names which is easy to read and remember. In the example mentioned above, the later domain names are easy to remember when compared withmmcb.com

4. Short domain name – You should try to get the shortest domain name for your website. It may not be possible for you to get a domain name of 3-4 characters, domain name of 5-15 characters will still be considered short with millions of names are already used as domain names.

5. Avoid confusing words – Avoid using confusing words in your domain name. Avoid using certain characters like numbers, dots or dashes in your domain name.

6. Include keywords – Try to include your industry main keyword or keywords you want to ultimately target in your domain name as that will in promoting your website on search engines. Keyword based domain names are god for your website readers as they are able to know your website business by just watching your website listing in search engines.

7. Trademarked names – Avoid using trademarked names in your domain name because you are inviting troubles by using trademarked names as part of your domain name. If you are using a trademarked name in your domain name, you can expect a mail from the trademarked name owner about stop using this domain name if you want to avoid legal issues. I have seen some people have to leave their domain name because they used a trademarked name as part of their domain name due to ignorance.

8. Domain registration – Once you are finished with the list of names for your new website, go to any popular domain registration website like Domain.com or GoDaddy.com or Register.com to check the available domain names from the list you created. Now you must have some domain names available from the list you created and choose the best domain name for your website among all available. And if your favorite domain name is owned (but not used) by someone, you can contact the owner of that domain by looking at website information from whois.sc website and see if he/she is interested in selling that domain name to you.

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Anil Gupta writes about ways to make money online, blogging, seo, affiliate marketing & traffic building tips on his Scopeformoney.com blog