Shout Domains: The Best Domain Search Ever
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It's important to find a good domain so your site (our your squidoo lens) can be found by search engines. You can find a lot of lousy sites that rank very well simply because they have excellent, "keyword rich" domains (I hope you don't think this lens is one of those).
Unfortunately, the big domain buy-up occured years ago--and, yes it is still going on. All the 4 letter domain names have been taken (I calculated that there are 1.6 million 4-letter domains, including numbers). Even the pathetic domains like t9i8.com are selling for hundreds of dollars, and sometimes thousands. Don't believe me? Go check out Ebay for domains.
Shout Domains is a wicked, awesome domain search tool. First of all, it searches as you type--for the word you type in the top 3 TLDs - .com, .net, and .org. Second, it's got powerful domain suggestion tools that allow you to come up with some relevant and fun domain names. Create a domain just by typing a word that describes who you are and watch as it gives you suggestions based on added adjectives and industry words.
The Top Five Reasons to use Shout Domains
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- Instant Domain Search. Shout Domains searches multiple TLDs for the domain word you type, as you type.
- Domain Word Combiner. There are a lot of great domains out there that were created from a simple word combination. Here's some examples: frogdesign.com, newsvine.com. Shout Domains has a comprehensive database of terms to generate word combinations from words that you type.
- Domain Word Cruncher. Have you ever wondered how companies came up with words like Skype, Furl, Diigo, and Moli? The Domain Word Cruncher is an intuitive system that generates new words like Kwista. It can also generate words based upon letters you enter. Try it out. Go type 'te' in the Cruncher and see what you get. One of those results could be your next highly brand-able company or website name!
- Over 30 TLDs. You don't just have to stick with .com, .net, or .org. Shout Domains has a whole list of other optional TLDs to check. There are even a bunch of country codes available to search for (i.e. .it, .tv).
- Check PageRank, Expiration Dates, Print your list. If your favorite domain was taken, you can check if it expires soon. You can also save all your domains to your computer or print a list. Don't worry about your domains being registered before you get to. All your searches are safe, not stored. Check out their privacy policy.
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There can be a lot to coming up with, finding and registering a quality domain.
Your domain tells customers and Google what your website is about. It has to be short, simple, memorable, and seo-friendly.
Short and Simple
Short is better than long. Howwouldyouliketohaveadomainlikethis.com. Exactly my point. Think of the bigwig websites: digg.com, furl.com, google.com, yahoo.com, live.com (you get my drift).
Memorable
I love memorable domains. I have so many websites that I visit every day--the effort of utilizing bookmarks has become useless. Google is memorable. Facebook is memorable. I hate straining to remember that website about 'catsanddogsforyou.com'. Chances are, if your site doesn't rank well, visitors will never make a return visit to your website, because they definitely won't find it in Google and they won't remember it.
SEO-Friendly
This one's important. Use keywords in your domain. Just for an example, I did a search for "house fire". The number 6 result was houseoffiremusic.com. If you take a look at that website, they have almost zero content and their keywords and title tags aren't optimized. However, simply because their domain contained the words, "house" and "fire" they appeared on the first page of Google! Getting a good domain will save you loads of preliminary SEO efforts and costs.
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A little rant about Domainers
I've always hated trying to find a decent, available domain name. In my experience, it seems only 1 out of every 20 searches reveals an available domain name. It's quite sad really. Domainers have done such a great job of buying every possible, good domain. That really isn't the bad part. What really gets me angry is how a majority of all the domains registered don't have relevant, content-driven websites attached to them. I am always running into websites, with good domains, that filled with advertisements and no content.
A few weeks ago I happened upon a super domain... And it was available! It was a short five-letter word, had two syllables, and sounded catchy. Unfortunately, I didn't buy the domain. I wanted some time to decide if I really wanted the domain. The next week, I finally made up my mind to buy the domain, but to my horror, it had been registered a few days earlier. I went to the URL and the page was only a templated site with a notice that the domain was being sold for over $500! Moral of the story: When you find a half decent domain--buy it! $6.99 is a lot cheaper than $500.
“If you find a domain you just gotta have, buy it before someone else does!”
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