Free Organic SEO

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:  picking the right domain name is very important to your overall search engine optimization efforts and is basically half the battle won, or lost.

I know this from personal experience and this article you’re reading now is a mini-case study on proving why this is so important.  So follow along and you’ll see how I messed up big time and how you can reap the rewards of learning this valuable lesson.

My marketing coach told me to set up a home business reviews website by getting a catchy-sounding domain name that had the word “reviews” in it.

So I did what my mentor at the time suggested and ordered that type of domain name and that is what cost me so much time.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 proceed, let me say that you should do some keyword research before you ever decide to order a domain name, and doing just that saved me a lot of time and effort.

Once I saw what the highest traffic keywords were, I got a keyword-optimized domain name and wrote some entries and published them.

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