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Choosing a Blog Domain Name for the SEO Noob

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Monetizing blogs has become one of the most popular source of extra online income this year. And just recently, I was asked how does blogging generate money. I’m currently doing it now with the help of 451press. Other ways to earn from blogging would require another blog post. So, to keep the long story short, I enumerated dozens of ways one can earn from blogging.

The curious girl wants to explore blogging for money and shot a few more questions. One of her SEO-related queries is how to choose a domain name that can be easily optimized.

Since she is thinking of a blog domain name and not a business site domain name, a little creativity grazed her thoughts. By the way, she is planning to work on a blog on politics, which is just so timely because of the elections.

So what did I tell her about the proper way of selecting a domain name for her politics blog? I remembered emailing her the importance of thinking about the readers and how they will relate the content of the blog with the domain name.

I forgot to include though the following important points in choosing a domain name for the purpose of easier optimization for the search engines and readers, of course:

- Avoid hyphenated domain names as they can be hard to type and to recall.
- and this domain name tool that suggests alternative domain names PCNames

Have I forgotten anything?

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Posted in General, SEO techniques, SEO tool on November 6th, 2006

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    November 6th, 2006 at 5:54 pm

    If you are looking for domain names that are easily optimized for search engines and aren’t concerned about visitor recall then hyphenated domain names are a great option. SEs love keyword rich hyphenated domain names.

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