Why choosing the wrong domain name cost me 2 years of effort

Taking 5 minutes to read this article can save you countless hours of effort, and that is being very, very conservative. You may have heard this before, but it really does bear repeating: selecting the right domain name is very crucial to your overall SEO efforts and is basically half the battle won, or lost.

I know this from my own trials and errors, so this article was written to show you proof of how costly this mistake is.Please follow along to learn how you can reap the rewards of ordering the proper domain name for your soon-to-be top-ranked site.

When I got my first marketing mentor, he told me to establish a marketing funnel by setting up a home business reviews site, to get a domain name with a “catchy” name to it and the word “reviews” in it, then use the site as a list-building tool.

I did what my coach said and ordered a domain name like that and that was my first error…because my mentor at the time gave me lousy advice.selecting a domain name that is catchy or has potential for branding usually aren’t good for ranking well easily for your main keywords.

Once I realized this after reading some information about SEO I decided to see if this was really true or not, so I set up a similar site that was also a review site, but was much better because it had all the keywords in it that I was “going after”. Before we get too far along with this, let me say that I did some keyword research prior ot ordering the domain name and the 25 minutes I spent on that keyword research paid off for me, big time.

After gathering together my keywords list, I ordered a domain name that had some of my main keywords in the name itself.

These types of results come from working in a more effective way, instead of working harder for the same results? Home business reviews site #1, which was 3 years old, and had thousands of backlinks was outranking home business reviews site #2 by 3 spots on page 1 of Google, and site #2 is only 3 months old.

The front page of Google listing achieved with site #2 took me only 3 months because I spent 25 minutes doing keyword research and decided on a good domain name for SEO purposes.

Daniel Mcgonagle teaches successful internet marketing practices at his internet marketing blog and he hopes you learned something useful and valuable from this article