Stop guessing when it comes to choosing a domain name.  Use actual search data provided by the largest search engine in the world.  Stop wasting time and money buying crappy domain names.  Follow this quick and easy guide and you’re on your way to making money online.

After you have selected your niche, you can use google keyword tool to help you select your domain. Google keyword tool is an application provided by Google to help you find keywords for your adwords advertising campaigns.  It is full of useful search information and can help you choose your domain name.

To begin your domain research go to the google keyword tool.  For this example my niche will be dog training. Enter your niche into the text box and make sure use synonyms is checked.

Click Get keyword ideas. It will display the keywords, advertiser competition, local search volume for that month, and global monthly search volume for that month.

I will click Local Search Volume: Month because I plan to target local search. Now I have the view I want. I now know what keywords people are searching for in my niche.

Now I will start grabbing the uniqie words from the top keywords.  Dog, training, train, dogs, obedience, collar, collars, agility, school, your, tips, free, potty, schools, behavior. Next I will make 5 domains with no dashes using these keywords and a few of my own.

1. freeandeasydogtraining.com
2. bluecollardogtraining.com
3. dogtraininghomeguide.com
4. freepottytrainingdogtips.com
5. homeschooldogtraining.com
6. goodbehaviordogtraining.com

Now I will check if they are available. 1,2,3,4 are available. 5 is taken. The one I like the best is bluecollardogtraining. I was able to sneak in collar into the domain which shows up in 2 of the top ten searches. Blue collar is also a common term which has 10,500,000 results in google. Now I will search the term blue collar dog training and see how many results I get in google.

It has 209,000 results and all the search results do not look like authority sites. Now I know if my site ever gets popular and people search blue collar dog training it should show up on the first page and quite possibly the very first result.  I have my domain name and now I’m ready to go.

Now if none of my 5 domain names were available, or I didn’t like what I was left with, I would start trying domains with dashes in it. Dashes help google separate the words in your domain, but dashes are really inconvenient for type in traffic. Expect to get most of your traffic from search engine instead of direct when using dashes in your domain.

Here’s the breakdown of the process.

1. Enter your niche into google keyword tool and click get keyword ideas
2. Sort it by local search if your market is local or sort it by world search if your market is global
3. Take the first 10 to 20 keywords and write down the unique words
4. Make 5 domains that make sense grammatically using 3 to 4 keywords
5. Pick your favorite from the unregistered domains
6. If they are all registered then your niche may be really competitive and you may have to use dashes
7. Google the keywords in your domain and if the competition is tough try again, otherwise you have your domain name

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