Hay Seed Marketing

One of the most important steps in beginning a website, aside from the keyword research is choosing the domain name, many people feel this is nothing more than simple naming your store or site but I assure you this step is as important as the keywords themselves and will determine how quickly your site appears for at least one of your keywords.

Don’t choose your domain by whether it’s cute or catchy, this is a big mistake, your domain name should literally be as close to your main keyword as possible, by that i mean if my keyword was “new golf clubs” then I would need a domain such as “newgolfclubs.com”, most likely that wouldn’t be available but if it is that would be my first choice. If not then i would default to “newgolfclubs.org”, not .net and never .info etc.

If none of that was available, then i try and add something to the domain, like hub or z, something short and sweet, I never go with a hyphenated domain, they just are a bit much for me, even though I see them recommended by others, they do work but not nearly as good… so my resultant domain may be “newgolfclubshub.com” the idea is to keep that keyword intact.

Take a look in google for any keyword and you will most times see the actaul keyword in the domain in the first couple slots, you can always get any domain to rank with enough effort, but having your main keyword in the domain will make it happen months faster and with little to no effort.

If you just cant find the .com or .org “google likes these” then move to your next keyword and see if you can find one for that… take this site your looking at, this is my catchy business name site, but it ranks horrible, one its Internet marketing witch if you can avoid don’t make your niche around it, the competition is horrible and the guys holding the rank have millions and people who keep them there, so this site has little or no value without social marketing and doesn’t appear to often in google for any useful keyword.

I have other sites that i made this critical mistake on and they just sit there doing little or nothing, so make this decision right the first time and you may see your site in the google serps withing days, I just put one up a week ago to sell my new plug ins and its ranking already…I cant stress this enough, and having helped so many people build sites, this is the one area every newbie misses the boat on.

Just to recap, make your domain the actual non hyphenated keyword ending in .com or .org, you can add any nonsensical short phrase to the end but only if you have to……happy websites Chris

P.S for more on keywords check out my keyword method video

Recently, I received a comment that said I should moderate the comments here, I assure you I do that’s why yours went into the trash, The all to common reaction is to try and get a link off this blog, most people don’t even care to actually comment, they just leave some simple ” hey dude nice blog I have bookmarked and will return”, that may have worked one day in the past but today it just doesn’t.

This blog is about the methods I use most of the time in Internet marketing, there’s no silver bullet here and never will be, it takes time and knowledge to become successful and I don’t care how many claim that you don’t need skills, well you do and they just want your money, they will sell you program after program and pretty soon you have a hard drive full of crap you never implement, the real secret is, put up a site take care and time and build it up with good quality content and they will come.

However, they wont read your good quality content, so don’t worry about it google will, my stat’s are loaded with 10 second visitors and what that tells me is your looking for the magic bean and its not here I assure you of that, now if your looking for some cool methods, then there are some here and for free, it takes time to make videos and no body does it for fun, use the information or follow the surfing herd onto the next big thing.

As far as comments, lets talk about links, links are like gold but they cost me rank to have a bunch of them linking out of this site, so if you give some value then I might approve them, if not then I will moderate them right to the trash, stay on topic of the post your commenting on, my information is not the end all and I am sure there are people out there that can add to it. If your looking for some diff cool tools or methods then take a look around, nobody is reading anything in 10 seconds, the side bar has links to other posts this is not a one page blog…

anyway time to end this rant…… Any one who would like to add to this site, then comment away, otherwise hop like the rest..

One of the things I realised a while back was that for my online business to be successful, I had to have my own products up for sale in order for me to be taken seriously by other business owners and marketers.

I know it’s fairly obvious when you stop to think about it, but sometimes you’re just so busy trying to work out what it is you need to do next and so distracted by the next big thing, that you lose site of what’s really important.

And I can say with certainty that it’s VERY important to have as many pages with payment buttons on them as possible. The more you have, the more money you’ll make, it’s as simple as that.

It doesn’t matter whether you’re using the products to make money from or whether you’re using them to a do a bit of list building, it’s just really important to have plenty of them out there. Once you do, then you can cross-promote them all with each other.

To do that, one of the short cuts that many people take is to use PLR (Private Label Rights) material which they make their own.

For example, if the material is an ebook, then all you have to do is re-write it enough to make it unique.

If you look hard enough, then you’ll find there’s plenty of written (ebook) PLR material out there, but there aren’t many of the other kinds of PLR such as video, audio or software.

Of them all, software probably has the highest perceived value, especially if it’s a useful business tool.

And on that last item…

I’ve found a site where you can get brand new PLR (Private Label Rights) software each and every month that you can rebrand and call your own. And unlike most PLR products, it’s almost completely unrestricted and you can do just about anything with it.

Interested?

You can kickstart your business by reading more about it here:-

PLR Software

Chris Lebarron