Is Less Better When It Comes To Domain Names? | domains names

Sometimes less is better.  Especially when it comes to domain names.  What do I mean?  Read on to find out…

The Challenge Module Two – Day One: Get Your Keyword Optimized Domain, Hosting and Free Trial WPD Account

Last year I tried WPD but didn’t persist as I found some issues getting it to work.  I am sure it was the particular domain registrar that I used for the domain (I only had 1 with them) but as I had already spent too much time trying to get it to work I moved on.  At this time I can set up a WordPress blog with my choice of plugins and themes in under 30 minutes so I figured spending any more time with Tech support was eating into site creation time.

However, I figured I would try them again this year.

I watched both of Kenny’s videos on about choosing a domain name.  I agreed with what Kenny has to say as I have found that the more exact a domain matches your target keyword the easier it is to get ranked high in the SERP’s, initially anyway.  A keyword with very low competition, hosted on an exact match keyword  domain, with unique content can get quite a high early ranking.  I’m talking first page, sometimes as high as the top 3.  If anything about the site is lacking, however, Google will usually “fix” that rank up with a week or 2, knocking it down a few places, even few pages.  These positions can be clawed back with time, content or links or combination of all three.

So off I went and acquired my domain name.  I used the domain module in MS all the way through and used Namecheap as I hadn’t used them before.  Up to this point I have been using 1and1.com.  You save a few bucks as they cost around $6 to $7 but you have to wait a day or 2 for the custom DNS to resolve.  I didn’t have this problem with Namecheap as it happened as soon as I updated the nameservers to my Hostgator account (saved a little time here as I already have an account there).

The Domain module is MS is very easy, from start to finish.  I have avoided using it as I have my own ways of finding highly keyword rich domains quite easily but I was  very pleasantly surprised.  And I was also happy with the speed at which the domain became available for use through Namecheap.

I then went onto the next step and signed up for my free trial account with WPDirect.  Sign up was easy enough.  Hopefully I will have more success this time around actually using the service.

I won’t spend too much time trying to get it to work for the reasons mentioned above.  Until tomorrow…