A crucial building block in setting up a website is the registration of a domain name.  Whether you are building a site to advertise your local business, an e-commerce site, photo or video or music download site, information site, or if you want to start up a website to display photos of your newborn online, the entire endeavor begins with the registration of your domain name.

Next you might ask- “What determines a good domain name choice?”.  The answer to this depends on what type of site you are planning.  The domain name chosen for a family and friends website won’t be as crucial as with other types of sites.  Why not?  Most likely in that circumstance you’re not looking for tons of traffic, friends and family are your desired audience, to keep them up to date.  In a case like this, it does not matter whatsoever if you find a domain name like “bobswebplace.net” or not, since most likely you will only be giving out the name of the site to a few friends and family and maybe some coworkers.   

So really what is most important in coosing your unique domain is the TYPE of site you want to publish.  If it is only for friends to see, it hasn’t got as much relevance as a business related or e-commerce website.  However…

What if the website is for business?  What if you want it to attract attention?

It pays to have a domain name that draws attention to your site or business.  If your website is about car parts for example, do you really expect the average web surfer to remember how to get to your website if it is named “bobsthingsforsale.com” or some other unrelated name?  The best strategy is to find a domain name that directly relates to your business, whether it is the business name itself or related to the category of business.  For example, a jewelry website should have a domain name like jewelry.com or jensjewelry.com, something that immediately associates the domain name with the theme of the site.  It’s all about branding, and making a lasting impression on the target audience or customers.

You can find domain names by checking the WhoIs database on the internet.  To aid you in your domain name search, I have conveniently placed a domain name search engine on StartYourWebsiteToday.com for this very purpose.  When searching for the domain name, the results given will instantly show whether or not the domain name is available, and if so, give you the option to immediately register it.  If it’s not available, several alternative domain names will be proposed, to help you fine tune your search, or possibly giving you an acceptable alternative domain name to register instead.

Tips On How To Grow Traffic

Having a website is just the start, promoting it and getting traffic is the next step. You may already be familiar on how to get traffic and links, but what this guide is going to do is teach you how to grow the traffic you already have.

Do you know that social bookmarking alone can easily get you over 1,000 unique visitors a day, at least 60% – 75% of the traffic will be targeted.

If you regularly submit your blog posts to social bookmarking sites it’s very easy to build a following, if someone likes your content then they will subscribe to your rss feed which means they will be back on a regular basis to read your posts. If they really like your posts then there is a high chance they will mention one of your articles on there site which will get you more traffic.

If you have already started to link build and draw traffic to your site then it would be a good idea to take a look at your Awstats, note all the sites that provide you traffic even if it is the odd one or two visitors.

With each site on your list spend a few minutes visiting it and see if there is anyway to increase the traffic from that site to yours, take a look at where your link is displayed on there site, the chances are if they are already linking to your site it should be easy enough to get another link.

I write a lot of articles so usually the sites that link to me are sending me traffic through my articles, if a particular site is sending me traffic and I won’t to increase it I could get in contact with the blog owner and provide them with more articles of the same quality. The blog owner should agree to that as I will be providing them with unique articles written to a high standard. Never use article rewriting software as you will never get a high quality rewritten article, if you won’t to speed up article writing then use voice software.

Try to visit all the sites that provide you traffic as it will be easy to get them to provide you with another link if they are already linking to you.

One of the top ways of increasing traffic and a very popular way with myself is article sharing. This is where a user like myself will write good content for a particular subjects and the blog that publishes my article will publish it along with three links back to my site. The three links will convert the traffic reading the article to my site and I can make the links SEO to help increase my search engine position.

Traffic is key to getting sales, it doesn’t matter how you get traffic aslong as you can maintain it. I have a process which I regularly do several times a week to help increase traffic, I use websites that are known for providing me with traffic and post on similar site or try and increase the traffic from that particular site.

Theres so many methods available to you which are free and can help increase traffic, you’ve probably seen the methods listed so many times before but I will briefly list them again. Some of the main methods for increasing traffic are social bookmarking, articles publishing, press releases, forum posting, comment posting and link bait.

There are other methods like seo directory submissions, article submissions, ppc but sometimes its best to leave those types of traffic building to someone else. If you found this article useful then why note read our post on how to get more traffic to your blog.