How To Choose A Domain Name For Your Real Estate Blog

A domain real estate name is where your blog lives on the Internet. It's your blog Uniform Resource Locator code, popularly known as the URL address. A URL will tell a computer where a resource is and how to access it. For example, iAgentc.com, which incidentally is where we recommend you buy your domain name. Your real estate blog's domain name information should be unique to you or the farm area in which you serve.

For real estate agents, owning yourname.com (your own domain name information) is the key to establishing your brand identity on the internet. Buyers and sellers buy YOU, the agent, not the company or your broker.

Five Features When Selecting A Domain Name in Real Estate

Length Easy To Remember Niche Related Dashes Are Okay .com is Best

Let's explain these 5 features in more detail:

Length - Shorter is better, but in real estate, geo-specific content is the key. We recommend either one or two syllable words. It rolls off the tongue better and is great to remember when directing traffic. Easy To Remember - If users cannot remember your domain name, then they won't find you from the domain name itself. And that's not good for search engine marketing. Keep your domain short and simple. One syllable is ideal, but two is okay. Niche Related - This is target marketing. Don't forget, geography in real estate is considered a niche area, but it can also apply to other types of niches. Ideally, you will want to conduct a keyword analysis before deciding on a domain name. The best tool is the Google keyword tool. Using keywords in your domain name will help to improve your overall Search Engine Optimization (SEO). For example, if an individual searches for a home in Austin, Texas, what would users type into the search engines to find their results? We typed "austin texas homes" and the keyword tool provide us with popular search terms that users actually typed into the search box. Dashes Are Okay - Search engines don't mind dashes. In fact, they behave a lot like grammar police when reading content on the web. That's why they give us the option of "Did You Mean" when we misspell a word or phrase. Words are recognized by the search engines as separate terms when they have a dash. Dashes (aka hyphens) are treated as a space between words. For example, if you are located in Austin, Texas and you want to secure the domain name austintexas.com and found out it was already registered to someone else; it would be okay to secure austin-texas.com or austin-tx.com or some other variation with dashes. As a result, you have a small opportunity to capitalize on SEO using dashes because austintexas is a misspelled word and will not be recognized. In fact, you will be given the option of, "Did you mean: austin texas." .com is Best -.com's are the best because they are the most recognizable by Internet users. More often than not someone will say, "Go to yada-yada-yada.com." In general, users will automatically try the.com first in a search because we have been conditioned to do so. You might as well give them what they want and secure the.com. However, we also recommend securing all extensions (.net,.tv,.info,.me) when developing your authority and brand identity online.

It is highly recommended using http://www.iAgentc.com for your real estate domain name.

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How to Choose a Great Domain Name

Domain Name: What is this?

In very simple terms, a Domain Name is like a street address but for a website. If the address is not proper it is hard to be located. For example the Domain Name for Google is Google.com and the Domain Name for YouTube is YouTube.com. The use of a domain name is to help a person get straight to the location and access a website.

Choosing an appropriate name:

It is very important to choose a domain name which is relevant to the kind of business or services being provided. Although this is a slightly mind boggling exercise, but it shows results if it is done right. A lot of thought should be put into create this name as this is what is going to reflect the website for the business. Hence it needs to satisfy the search made by the customer and the search engine which maybe a means of locating the site. It is nice to have a keyword in the domain name.

A good example would be of yourbookstore.com for a books store. Nowadays it's very hard to get a domain name. Sometimes even a combination of words in the domain name is a good way to beat this. It has to be unique.

A good domain name should feature the following:

a) It represents the business identity: A cleverly made domain name is relative and should be easy to remember with the associated business.

b) Helps to create external links: A good domain name attracts customers more and helps get a better ranking leading to more relevant traffic and potential buyers.

c) Should be able to play a significant role in a blog logo: A good domain name should be able to identify business identity and should be able to promote the brand.

d) It is good to have a short and snazzy name. Keeping it to fewer than 13 letters is ideal: This minimises the possibility of misspelling the address by the user and this helps in keeping the continuity of the brand.

e) The domain name should not be hyphenated. This could attract a penalty. Don't try duplication, it won't work. These kinds of names are easy to forget and sometimes may even lead the customer to a competitor's site if the hyphens are not used right. It also happens that if a site is recommended by word of mouth, generally the hyphens are left out.

Get a good name. It might become famous associated name. Good luck.

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