The most difficult decision about a website or a blog is choosing the best domain, from a personal and professional point of view it is very complicated, especially when you want to work on the SEO of your blog.
The name of the domain of a website plays a very important role in SEO, if you choose well, you will have some very important points earned, the domain is like the license plate of a car, it is unique, it is the way to identify your content and associate certain characteristics with it.
The most important thing when choosing a blog name is that it be a suitable name with the theme, if it includes a better keyword but avoids the exact match domain (matching an exact search) because it is penalized to have names like that, there are many errors that we unintentionally commit with SEO. If you need to know more about keywords and SEO read this post:
General tips for choosing a domain for a blog:
Buy from a cheap but safe site, keep that money saved for hosting. You should find out if the offer binds you longer to have your blog and what price it would be in the following years because there are many cheats offers that put honey in your mouth and then after a year they nail you. Choose a good hosting without making a mess Avoid names with accents that do not appear in the URL so look for a synonym because it is very difficult to position, if you want to see accents in the URL you must configure the blog in Yugoslavian … I do not think we need it! XD. On the other hand, you can take advantage of the ñ in .es domains. Choose a short and easy-to-remember name. Do not copy or version names of well-positioned pages; for example, if you put YouTube you are penalized.
Use domain extensions wisely, if your blog is going to be promoted at a regional level, for example a blog from a store that sells in Catalunya, you can choose the .cat extension, .es is a very good option for blogs in Spanish. Free domains usually have strange extensions that are not favorable in terms of SEO or easy to remember you, just as free hosting is not a good option if you want to have a professional blog or optimize it for SEO.
The sooner you buy and occupy the domain with something, the better, the domains to have more domain authority need time, so an old domain is easier to position than a newly purchased one, so even if it is, put the curtain or write the beginning so that it begins to rank as soon as possible.
Avoid far-fetched names or names that need an explanation to associate with the topic: this is what I fell for myself when I put another blog Negocioscaninos and saw that it was not a good idea but rather horrible, I still maintain it but I know that the domain name drags me many handicaps What:
- Confusion with another activity, that greatly increases the bounce rate because many visits it looking for something else.
- little credibility
- Long names that are difficult to memorize and associate.
- They do not include the keyword and are a drain on potential visitors.
The domain can hide other very serious problems and sometimes we are not aware of what it can bring us.
Being a domain penalized by Google, it is easy to see a great name take it and in a few months see that you are penalized.
Conflicting former owners, Imagine the spam it can generate if it was a download directory, a forum because there are times when domains are bought at auctions. Limitations when it comes to email accounts, migration, dynamic DNS there are times when they are “captured” so that you have to hire the hosting with the same company, anyway a domain is not that expensive and there are hosting packages so varied that there is. For example, in the .es extension we can use ñ but by including a ñ in our URL many servers do not provide us with mail service.
