You have the concept or niche. As you prepare to build your website, one of the top items to get right the first time is the domain name. Below are some tips for picking a domain:

1. ALWAYS get the “.com” extension for your main domain. A domain name should be a “.com” to have strong ranking in the search engines.

2. Keyword rich-Pick a domain that has your top keywords in the name.
3. Brandable domains– Have branding in mind when you pick your domain name. A catchy name keeps your site sticky and readers coming back.
3. Keep the domain name SHORT. A domain should have no more than three words in the domain name. The less, the better although it is very difficult to get a one name domain name unless you are willing to pay for it from someone who owns it.
4. Avoid confusion, keep it simple. Don’t choose a name with a hypen “-“. Viewers forget the hypens when typing a name and this give away your traffic to someone else. Search engines give higher ranking to non-hypenated domains. Stay away from numbers, underscores and dots.
5. Secure multiple domains- After you buy the .com, make sure to register the .net and .org so no one else grabs it. This enables you protect your niche and helps when you sell the site to a potential buyer that you have the .com, .net, and .org as a part of the “package”.
6. Easy to remember The best domain names are short, easy to remember, hard to mispell, have your keywords and are related to the core of your business.
7. Avoid legal hassles Stay away from Trademarked names to avoid legal issues. You risk being sued if you use a trademarked name in your domain.
8. Future thinking-Make sure the domain name you pick won’t date quickly. You want to find a name that will be relevant years from now and possibly gain the interest of a potential buyer.
9. Trusted advisors-Make a list of domain names and run the ideas by trusted friends and family before you purchase the domain. Your focus can be different from the outlook of another viewer and their input can give you more ideas.
10. Renting domain names is dumb-If you find someone that doesn’t want to sell you an unused domain and says they will lease it to you, find another domain. You want complete control and ownership of the domain. If you lease and your site is succesful the owner of the domain could
1. Take the domain back and use your ideas and content at the end of the lease
2. Dramatically increase the lease rate based on your success.

Blogging is one of the best ways to quickly make
money on the internet. But you have to have a formula that works. You’ll need the following to start:
1. WordPress. An easy to set up platform that is free open source software that
your hosting company can help you set up with one click or FTP to the server.
2. A topic that people want to read about and come back for updates.
3. Products that you can offer your readers to monetize the blog.

Newbies to Blogging/Non-Technical Writers

If you are a newbie, you arescratching your head trying to figure out where to start. The first place to invest in learning about blogging would be from one of the masters, Alvan Phang. Alvin Phang’s Atomic Blogging is a great place for newbies to internet marketing and blogging to start.

-How To Create A Blog From Scratch In Just Minutes, Even If You’re Not Good With The Technical Stuff

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-Monetize Your Blog With Not Just One, But Multiple Ways To Ensure Constant, Snowballing Profits – As Fast As In The Next 72 Hours!

-How One Simple Blog Can Earn Over $6,000 Per Month

Do You Have An Existing Blog?

You have a basic blog set up but little traffic and no zing. Here are seven questions to ask determine if your blog is optimized and really ready for marketing:

Find Out How Well Your Blog Is Optimized And Ready For Marketing

1. How often do you blog a post on your blog?

2. Do you have capture leads on your blog?

3. What type of offer do you provide to capture leads?

4. Do you track your visitors to your blog?

5. How many ways of monetization do you use on your blogs? Examples like Adsense, Banners Ads

6. What type of blog do you use?

7. Do you install widgets and plugins for your blogs?

Yeah, I thought so. Need some help? You can get valuable FREE blogging tips and updates about how you can
improve your blog and grow your business using blogs by checking out Alvin Phang’s Atomic Blogging.

Inside Atomic Blogging

Atomic Blogging was developed by Alvin to help bloggers new to blogging and internet market get a running start. In addition to the previous version, Alvin has added in some advance blogging techniques into his course including six advanced SEO techniques that can get your blog top search engine rankings and a step-by-step guides to how and what he does to drive massive traffic and targeted traffic to your blog. Alvin puts all of the information into simple, detailed steps that someone who has no internet knowledge can quickly learn….everything from how to set up hosting to how to set up a wordpress blog. Alvin has made it a “blogging for dummies” course.

Atomic Blogging comes with Nine Exclusive Bonuses

1. Social bookmarking plugin which submits your posts to social bookmarking sites every time you publish a post.

2. Atomic Blogging WordPress theme version 3.0

3. Keyword Research Tool

4. eWriter Pro

5. Interview with Yaro Starak

6. Atomic Blogging Nuclear Module Pack

-SEO Plugins
Google Sitemap Generator

-Tagging Plugins

-Tracking Plugins
Linking Plugins
Customized Sidebar Plugin

7. Bloggers Guide To Profits

8. 14 Traffic Videos

9. Atomic Blogging Lifetime
Membership

And to top it off, you get 8 weeks to
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