How Should You Secure Multiple WWW Names

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There are many different reasons for purchasing multiple domain names, and each reason has its own set of benefits and uses. Written quite extensively before about how to select the prefect domain name for your venture.

It is also a good idea to secure alternate versions of your primary domain as a means to prevent competitors from trying to squeeze in on your name and branding rights. Buying many domain names is a great strategy that can be used to capture additional type-in traffic you may wish to pursue, or simply to stop your competitors from securing them.

Type-In Traffic

Many URLs are purchased simply to capture type in traffic. Type-in traffic is when someone goes to the address bar of their web browser and types in keywords.com instead of performing a keyword search on a search engine. Securing domain names with a fair amount of type-in traffic can be a great boost to sales. If you sell bean bags, your main URL might be BarrysBeanBags.com. To capture potential type-in traffic you might also secure and redirect the following:

• KidsBeanBags .com
• BeanBagChairs .com
• BeanBagFurnture .com

Misspellings

It is always a good idea to secure potential misspellings of your domain name. I recently did a radio interview and at the end of the interview I provided my domain name. Unfortunately I did not take the time to actually spell it out. Upon realizing my error, I immediately went out and purchased multiple spellings of my URL to redirect to my primary site.

o PolPositionMarketing .com
o PullPositionMarketing .com
o PollPositionMarketing .com

This enabled me to capture all traffic from any listeners that may have had a different spelling of my web site in mind, which increased my visitor rate from those who listened to the broadcast substantially.

Along with misspellings you should also consider purchasing plural and/or singular versions of your domain.

YourDomainSucks .com

If you are in a highly visible industry you might want to consider getting yourdomainsucks.com. Several years ago someone put up an anti AOL website at aolsucks.com (You can see a version of this at http://web.archive.org/web/19980111060209/http://www.aolsucks.com/).

Who might do such a thing? A disgruntled x-employee, a customer who had a bad experience or even a former spouse or partner. Setting up and hosting a website is relatively easy, and often bad press travels a lot further with a little effort than good press with a lot of effort.

There are some significant set backs from trying to capture all negative versions of your domain name. You’ll have to grab all hyphenated, non-hyphenated, plural, and misspelled variations. That can be quite a bit. Take that even a step further, you also want to buy the .net, .org, .info, .biz and .us (or your country code) variations. Dont forget YourDomainSux.com or YourDomainReallySucks either.

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Why You Should Buy Expired Domains Revisited

Why should you buy expired domains ? I have written about this subject previously, but it is time to highlight once again this great opportunity.

There are many good reasons if you are interested in making money online. One reason is that these domains are aged which increases their popularity in the eyes of the search engines. There may even still have PR ( best to check with a site such as estibot ). Also, they may have backlinks that are still intact.

There are many websites out there that claim to have an exclusive list that you can purchase of premium names that are about to expire or others that still receive lots of organic traffic. Make sure that you research these websites before you buy expired domains from them. Some of these sites are advertising high number of hits to certain sites, when in fact, the traffic was generated by them. Of course, they are only doing this to entice people to sign up and to pay. In other words, make sure that you are buying your expired domains from a place that has lots of good reviews and great status.

If you are not sure where to look when you are ready to buy expired domains, I have a suggestion for you. Try out freshdrop for researching and purchasing expired domains. They have lots of information on the expired domains on their site. Select the option closeouts and you will notice that it is possible to pick up most of these domains for as little as $5 each ( plus you will have to buy to register each domain ).

When selecting an expired domain, make sure that it contains a nice keyword within its name. Also, check to see which niche or area it was focussed in on when it was online. Lots of times you will be getting traffic right away. Good luck with your search for expired domains and let me know how it goes for you.

Purchasing Domain Names

Purchasing domain names doesn’t have to be a scary process. It is ok to make mistakes in the beginning. The cost nowadays for domain names is so cheap that it will not break you financially. Unless of course you buy  hundreds of stupid useless domain names without thinking or planning beforehand.

I had purchased too many strange names in the beginning. I thought that if I can find a domain name that had just two dictionary words included together without dashes that I was going to make big bucks just selling the domains shortly afterward. Purchasing domain names is not rocket science, but to do it correctly does require a little bit of thought.

Make sure that you research different phrases, before purchasing domain names, that are typed in relatively often into search engines and that have low competition. Don’t register a super long tailed phrases just because you have heard the phrase spoken one time last month. Choose a phrase that has at least 250 type-ins per month and 10,000 or less sites on the internet trying to exploit that particular phrase. Your chances of registering a domain name that  can be sold easily or developed to make money online are now much higher.

The software package that I use on a daily basis to pick great phrases is micro niche finder . Its newest update makes it super easy to zero in on powerful niches. You should try it out and let me know how it works out for you.