Posted by Tauno on January 26, 2007 under Business Names, Domain Names, Domain Tools, Name Generator, Screen Names | 
Finding the perfect name is an important step every entrepreneur is facing when starting up a new business.
Having a brandable and memorable name is the foundation for a successful venture; not having it could cost you an arm and a leg in marketing costs, but no-one still remembers it.
With more than 80 million domain names already registered, you would get a serious headache brainstorming for names and looking them up in the Whois database one-by-one, only to find that all the sensible ones are already taken. But you can be sure, that good domain names are still out there. Its just not very easy to find them.
For that reason we can recommend a tool that can save you a lot of valuable time – MakeWords Domain Search and Suggestions tool .
Algorithms and language rules in MakeWords deliver hundreds of new unique name ideas instantly. It may take a couple of minutes of getting used to it, but once you do, you’ll save hours naming for your future products or brands. We even have pages where you can find a name for your pet, baby, roleplay character.
For Screen Names check out our sister site SpinXO.com.
Posted by Tauno on September 25, 2006 under Business Names, Domain Name Basics, Domain Names, Hosting, Internet, MakeWords.com, Startup Business, Technology, Web Hosting Discounts, Web Hosting Reviews, Web Hosting Services |
How much should you pay to register your domain?
There are currently over 500 registrars have in the market for domain name registration services. We reviewed the registration prices of the industry leaders and compiled this rating chart, based on registration prices. Note that some of these companies offer a free domain with their web hosting plans. In those cases we have added some most important characteristics about those offers so you can get an adequate comparison.
The following are the yearly domain registration prices by the world’s leading registrars, ordered by the best price/value ratio:
#1 -
1 & 1 Hosting
$5.99 – Includes a 1 Gb email account and free private registration – this means you can keep your information anonymous if desired. 1 & 1 offers .com .net .org .us .info .name .biz .cc .tv and .ws domains.
#2 –
Yahoo!
$1.99 – First year registration, for new customers only
$9.99 – Regular domain registration price
Free Domain with Hosting ($11.95/m) – hosting includes 5 Gb disk space and 200Gb transfer 
#3 –
GoDaddy
$1.99 - With the purchase of any other GoDaddy product – like a
$3.19/m web hosting plan
$6.65 – Bulk registration price. Applies when you register more than 100 domains at a time.
26% off normal pricing.
$6.75 - Bulk registration price. Applies when you register more than 5 domains at a time. For example .com, .net, .info and other extensions for your business name.
$8.95 - Regular domain registration price
iPower.com
$6.50 – regular domain registration price
Free Domain with Hosting ($7.95/m) – hosting includes 50Gb web space
Dot 5 Hosting
$7.95 – regular domain registration price 
Free Domain with Hosting ($3.95/m) – hosting includes 50Gb storage space and 750Gb transfer
Hostmonster.com
Free Domain with Hosting ($3.95/m) – hosting includes 50 Gb disk space and 999Gb transfer, free SSH 
Omnis Network
$7.95 – includes DNS manager, URL forwarding. Bulk pricing also available 
netGURUS.com
$8.99 – regular domain registration price 
Free Domain with Hosting ($9.99/m) – free domain name with purchase of netGURUS hosting package
EasyCGI.com
$10.00 – regular domain registration price 
Free Domain with Hosting ($7.96/m) – hosting includes 6 Gb disk space and 1000Gb transfer, ASP.NET
Vendio
Free Domain with Hosting ($6.95/m) – hosting includes 3Gb storage space and 60Gb transfer
$12.95 – regular domain registration price 
European Domain Registrars
1 & 1 Internet Hosting – UK
£1.99 – .co.uk domains only. free domain parking. Best price in the UK.
£8.99 – .com, .net, .org, .info, .eu domains 
HostWay – UK
£7.95 – 2 years – this United Kingdom registrar also offers .info domains for £1.49 a year and .eu domains for £19.95/year. For US customers too. 
Check back often for updates!
Posted by Tauno on under Internet, MakeWords.com, Name Generator, Screen Names |
Go to Screen Name Generator
It has become increasingly difficult to find a cool, available and non-numeric screen name for a AIM, MSN, Skype and many other Instant Messaging services. There is now even a marketplace where you can buy AIM screen names for ridiculous amounts.
Therefore we have added another feature to SpinXO.com – a simple way to create 100 Screen Names in an instant. There are four different name categories that you can choose from: Male and Female names, Fantasy names, Gothic names.
Try it Now – Screen Name Generator!
Posted by Tauno on under Business Names, Domain Names, Domain Tools, Internet, MakeWords.com, New Features, Startup Business, Technology, Web 2.0 |
Acceli Web Solutions launches an intelligent Domain Name Generator at www.makewords.com
The new domain search system at www.makewords.com contains a variety of features that speed up your quest for unregistered domain names.
Acceli Web Solutions, a New York web development company, announced today the launch of its next generation domain name suggestion tool and search engine at www.makewords.com
Unregistered domains can now be easily found with several new methods, like the random phonetic word generator, using different language rules, synonym search, popular affixes and more.
At some point almost everyone needs to come up with a name for their startup business, personal website or blog, said Tauno Novek, Chief Operating Officer of Acceli. We faced the same question when we were looking for a name for our company. That’s when the idea about the domain name generator was conceived.
The domain search engine was developed using the new Microsoft.NET framework that takes advantage of the AJAX (shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) techniques of the web.
We’ve been running it for a while now and the results are astonishing. Within minutes the search engine returns 5 and 6 letter domain names that sound good, are brandable and memorable! Apparently there is still an infinite number of good names out there, its just a matter of finding them, said Novek.
About Acceli Web Solutions
Based in New York, Acceli – www.acceli.com – is a privately owned web design and development company that uses the latest web technologies to build innovative and unique websites.
To learn more about the MakeWords Name Generator, please visit http://www.makewords.com
Posted by Tauno on under Domain Name Basics, Domain Names, Hosting, Internet, Reviews, Startup Business, Technology, Web Hosting Discounts, Web Hosting Reviews, Web Hosting Services |
Need help choosing the right website host or a domain registrar?
We have compiled a comprehensive list of currently most popular registrars, based on the input of the users of MakeWords.com Domain Name Generator – these are domain industry professionals, marketing experts, small business owners and everyone else in need for a domain name and web hosting services.
The following registrars are the real industry leaders, reliable and highly recommended.
#1 Yahoo
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#2 1 and 1
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#3 GoDaddy
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HostGator
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Dot5
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HostRocket
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iPowerWeb
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1 and 1 UK
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www.1and1.com
1&1 offers four principal shared hosting packages:
- Beginner for the novice Web site builder – $2.24/month;
- Home ideally suited for families or individuals with hobbies – $3.74/month;
- Business for small and medium size businesses – $7.49/month;
- Developer for the professional that designs and hosts clients – $14.99/month;
As a price example, the company’s Home package will be $45 for one year with no extra costs for up to two personal domains applying. The Business package includes three domains for $90 for a full year term, compared to other hosting companies that charge up to $200 for a comparable product.
Also included with the Business Package is the free Adobe software, 2,000 IMAP or POP3 e-mail accounts, three domains, Search Engine Submission and Optimization (this gets businesses a higher ranking on Google), RSS feed creator, 100 GB of Web space, In2site Live Dialogue as well as a 90-day money back guarantee.
To summarize – 1&1 is one of the world’s biggest web hosts, and the fastest growing. Their global community is 5.87 million people strong. 1 & 1 is financially stable, reliable and profitable and therefore highly recommended for your web hosting or ecommerce needs.
Learn more about 1 & 1 services:
Go to http://www.1and1.com
Posted by Tauno on under Business Names, Domain Names, Earning With Domains |
You can easily earn money from your unused domain names.
Sedo’ Domain Parking Program lets you earn money from your domain names without needing to develop your own site. Even better, Sedo’s statistics show that domains parked with Sedo are 5 times more likely to be sold!
Parking your domain is absolutely free. It is quick and easy to set your domains to forward to the Sedo listing page, and no hosting or programming knowledge is required.
Conveniently receive your monthly payments via Paypal once your earnings have reached only $20! If you do not have paypal we can send you an international wire transfer, anywhere in the world at no additional cost (earnings must reach €50 for wire transfer payments). The revenue per click varies on a domain by domain basis and can be up to 1.50 USD per click.
Sedo Domain Parking Program
Posted by Tauno on under Domain Names, Web Hosting Discounts |
Dot 5 is offering a free domain name for anyone who signs up with their $3.95 hosting plan.
Whats included:
50 GB of Hosting Space
Host 6 Domains on 1 Account
5000 Pop Email Accounts
Free e-Commerce Shopping Carts
750 Gigs of Transfer
SSL, FTP, Stats
CGI, Ruby, Perl, PHP, MySQL
Frontpage Extensions
Free setup
Free Domain Forever
Free Site Builder
Best Support in the Industry
24/7 Phone Support
Go to Dot5Hosting.com 
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List Your Site with Yahoo! Sponsored Search
and appear on the top of search results of leading sites like Yahoo!, AltaVista and CNN.com.
Sign up and get a $25 credit. 
Posted by Tauno on under Domain Name Basics, Domain Names, Domain Tools, Hosting, Internet, Web Hosting Discounts, Web Hosting Reviews |
Hostgator Quality Hosting for only $4.95/month
Entering coupon code hgc25 gets your first month free.
Hostgator offers 24/7/365 phone support, 99.9% uptime, and has a 30 day money back guarantee. Your site will be on a top-of-the-line Dual Xeon server that can provide instant backups of your site (this is available via the control panel). Their control panel is one of the best in the industry, and has over 39 scripts that can be installed with a click of the mouse.
Click Here – Hostgator.com
Posted by Tauno on under Domain Name Basics, Domain Names, Domain Tools, Hosting, Internet, Technology, Web Hosting Reviews |
Are you about to give up hope on finding a good available domain name?
No worries, there is still an infinite number of available domains out there, its just a matter of finding them.
Recently some major web hosting companies have launched domain name suggestion engines that can give you hundreds of inspiring name ideas instantly. A few of them stand out by being significantly faster and user-friendlier than most:
Yahoo! Domain Name Suggestions – Link
Yahoo’s Domain Suggestions has an eye-catching ultramodern Web 2.0 feel. This search interface is done with Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) – the latest in web techniques for creating interactive web applications. You’ll notice that the pages are actually never reloaded when searcing. Page elements simply shift around softly, making the user experience dynamic and easy to use.
Lets say we need a name for an interior design site. Typing “interior design†to the search box produces the following results:
Not all of them are close to ideal, but there are a few that sound good and are actually quite search engine friendly – meaning that they contain the actual words people would be searching for. Note that you have to click on “See more†to view all results.
The speed of looking up over 100 domain names is simply astonishing – new results are returned in less than one second thanks to Ajax.
Click here to try it – Yahoo Domains Suggestion Engine
GoDaddy Domains Smart Search – Link
GoDaddy’s first set of results is for .com domains only, but later you can select other extenisions like .net, .info, .biz, .us etc.
We’ll try the interior design search once again.
Click on the See other domains like this link to view all suggestions.
GoDaddy offers various options to customize your domain search – add popular affixes or suffixes, include dashes in the name or use related keywords.
Click here to try it – GoDaddy Smart Search
MakeWords Domain Name Generator – Link
MakeWords is the one with most advanced features. Names can be created with random phonetic words, that sound like they would derive from English language. The popular affixes search is similar to Yahoo! and GoDaddy, with tens of different affix categories to choose from. The synonym search suggests similar keywords that can be combined with an extra affix of suffix.
There are links for checking the domain popularity, Google results and business name availability. Similar to Yahoo, this site also uses the Ajax interface.
At first it may all seem a bit overwhelming, but that is usually the case whan you have so many custom search options.
Click here to try it – MakeWords Name Generator
Good luck with your domain name search!
Posted by Tauno on under Domain Names, MakeWords.com, Name Generator |
MakeWords.com Name Generator: Create fictional names
Looking for a unique name for your literary character? If so, you might find this site quite useful: Fictional Name Generator.
Create one hundred new names instantly, using English language rules. You can choose male and female names, fantasy names or gothic names.
Posted by Tauno on under Business Names, Domain Names, Name Meanings |
Accenture Accent on the Future. Greater-than ˜accent over the logos t points forward towards the future. The name Accenture was proposed by a company employee in Norway as part of an internal name finding process (BrandStorming). Prior to January 1, 2001 the company was called Andersen Consulting.
Adidas from the name of the founder Adolf (Adi) Dassler.
Adobe from the name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the houses of founders John Warnock and Chuck Geschke.
Akai technically it means red in Japanese, but the Japanese also use it to refer to the color of the rising sun, as seen on the flag of Japan.
Alfa Romeo the company was originally known as ALFA, an acronym for Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili. When Nicola Romeo bought ALFA in 1915, his surname was appended.
AltaVista Spanish for high view.
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos renamed the company Amazon (from the earlier name of Cadabra.com) after the worlds most voluminous river, the Amazon. He saw the potential for a larger volume of sales in an online (as opposed to a bricks and mortar) bookstore.
Apple for the favourite fruit of co-founder Steve Jobs and/or for the time he worked at an apple orchard. Apple wanted to distance itself from the cold, unapproachable, complicated imagery created by other computer companies at the time which had names such as IBM, DEC, Cincom and Tesseract in order to get people to use them at home. They looked for a name that supported a brand positioning strategy that was to be perceived as simple, warm, human, approachable and different.
Note: Apple had to get approval from the Beatles Apple Corps to use the name Apple and paid a one-time royalty of $100,000 to McIntosh Laboratory, Inc., a maker of high-end audio equipment, to use the derivative name Macintosh (Mac).
Ask.com search engine formerly named after Jeeves, the gentlemans gentleman (valet, not butler) in P. G. Wodehouses series of books. Ask Jeeves was shortened to Ask in 2006.
Aston Martin from the Aston Hill races (near Aston Clinton) where the company was founded, and the surname of Lionel Martin, the companys founder.
Atari named from the board game Go. Atari is a Japanese word to describe a position where an opponents stones are in danger of being captured. It is similar, though not identical, to check in chess. The original games company was American but wanted a Japanese-sounding name.
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Posted by Tauno on under Business Names, Domain Names, MakeWords.com, Name Generator |
The domain name for your business is your online identity.
You should be very careful about choosing a domain name that is memorable, scores quite well with search engine listings, has a trust factor attached to it, and commands a brand value. A domain name is quite important for your business correspondences and emails. A long one can cause problems in communication, especially if the domain name seems complex. Here are some tips in choosing a well-meaning domain name that captures the essence of your brand image or business:
1. Keyword oriented or a unique domain name? If your website is going to have a crucial role to play in your business, then it is important to have an adequately researched keyword incorporated within the brand name. Use the most searched-for term in search engine queries, within your domain name. Prior to launching your online business, you should do some research through website tools to find out which keywords register the most number of traffic during a month. For example, if you want to make a website based on advising people, you will find that the keyword help is normally typed in the search engine query window a lot more frequently than the word aid. If your domain name includes targeted keywords, than you will get higher rankings in the search engines like Google and Yahoo. You should bear in mind that, apart from having the targeted keyword in your domain name, you should also have keywords in other parts of your site as well.
2. Use a company name only if you are famous: That is right. If your company name overwhelms the basic product name, then by all means go for the company name as your domain name. For example, people normally use the term Xerox rather than photocopy and if you are Xerox, then you should go for Xerox as a domain name because of the sheer popularity of the brand name. This is usually not the case, so using a keyword-rich domain name is a better move for most people. To be on the right side of balancing your business well, you should buy a set of two domain names, one that represents your business/brand name, and another that represents keywords or key phrases.
3. Keep your domain name short: The shorter your domain name, the more memorable it is. If your domain name has an every-day lingo, the better it is! More often than not, you may find that a simple two-word domain name is already taken. The alternative in this case, is to put a hyphen (-) to your targeted keyword and then add the other word. SEO experts are of the belief that hyphenating two or more words makes a long domain name more search engine friendly. The flip side is that people do not tend to write words with hyphens naturally, and there is a chance that if someone has recommended your site to a friend, the friend may find himself going to a competitor’s site. So one has to understand and undergo a lot of study while choosing a domain name. After all, it is one prominent thing that can dictate the flow of your business. Also, you should avoid putting numbers like 4 instead of for in your domain name. It will only lead to confusion.
4. Dot.com only: If you intend to have a website for commercial or business reasons, then by all means go for a website which ends in extension .com. The domain name companies will market other options like .org, .us, .net, etc. However, by all means try stick to .com for better mass appeal.
5. Register similar domain names: If you believe that in the future you are going to have a huge amount of people visiting your website through word-of-mouth advertising, then you should consider registering similar domain names that direct to your main URL (e.g. www.datinginformation.com and www.datinginfo.com). There are cyber-squatters who register domain names in the hope that they will be selling them for a profit to someone who really needs that domain name. Before they do this, you should register the domain names if you think that such a possibility can occur.
6. Be patient: You should not choose a domain name in minutes merely just to get it done and over with. A hasty decision may cost you a lot. It is better to invest time in research and arrive at the right kind of domain name. You should also discuss the comprehensibility and usage of the domain name with friends, neighbors and well wishers to find how simple and commonplace it really is.
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Posted by Tauno on under Blogging, Earning With Domains |
Let’s say that you’re creating a website for Barb’s Specialty Pet Products. Should the domain name be barbsspecialtypetproducts.com?
Perhaps, but don’t stop there. Having the right domain name, or domain names, can bring more traffic to your site.
Why more than one domain name?
One domain is all you need to set up a website. But with more domains directing to your site, you can have these additional benefits:
- Bring site visitors who type variations of your domain name
- Acquire traffic that might otherwise go to your competition
- Harness the marketing power of keyword domains
Your primary domain name
If it’s feasible, use your business or brand name in your primary domain. People will remember it and associate it with your business. Also consider the following factors when choosing your primary domain.
Domain name extensions
Should your primary domain end with .com, .net, or .biz, or with a country-specific extension such as .ca or .co.uk?
If your website is aimed at people in a specific country, having a country-specific domain can help:
- Site visitors will recognize right away that the business has a presence in the country of the extension. They may therefore be more comfortable buying from you.
- Some country-specific search results include sites with the relevant country-specific domain extension even if the site isn’t hosted in that country.
On the other hand, if you’re targeting an international audience, a country-specific domain could work against you. People from outside the country of the extension may be less inclined to buy if the business looks foreign to them.
If you want to attract both people within your country and those in other countries, have both. Each domain could direct to the same site, with each audience seeing the domain intended for them. For country-specific search results, the primary domain should be the country-specific one.
Chances are that the .com domain you want is already taken. If you use the .net or .biz version, you risk having potential site visitors go to your .com competition instead. Be sure to use the full domain name on all promotional material to reduce this risk.
Domain name length
A short domain is easier to remember, it has less risk of being mistyped, and it’ll fit easily on your business cards and correspondence.
Conversely, if a short name doesn’t represent your business, it’s more difficult for people to remember. The short names you like may already be taken anyway.
If your business name is up to three easy-to-spell words, it’ll probably work as a domain name. For a longer business name, the initials or just one or two words may be easier than remembering a combination of words.
Secondary domain names
Secondary domains directing to your site are for online use:
- For people who type your primary domain name incorrectly
- For people who search for your products or services online
Typing and spelling variations
How many ways can people spell and type your business name?
barbsspecialtypetproducts.com
barbs-specialty-pet-products.com
barbspecialtypetproducts.com
barbsspecialitypetproducts.com
barbsspecialitypetproducts.com
barbspecialtyproducts.com
barbspecialtyproduct.com
Hyphens aren’t recommended for your primary domain. When people tell others about your site, they’re likely to omit the hyphens. They may also forget to type them.
For secondary domains, hyphens make long domains easier to read. Each word stands out when people see your domain. However, domains such as buy-keyword-product-now.com make some people view hyphenated domains, especially those with more than one hyphen, as spam-like.
Having the words in domains separated may help some search engines recognize keywords. With Google, though, hyphens don’t make any difference.
Consider all of these variations for secondary domain names:
- With and without hyphens
- Different ways of spelling some words
- Singular and plural versions of nouns
- Extensions with .com and .net as well as a country-specific extension if relevant
What people search for
If you want to find the website for Time magazine, you might do a search for it, or you might try typing in time.com. If you do the latter, you’ll find yourself at the Time site.
This type of search behavior extends to generic words too. Searching for dog collars? Try dogcollar.com, for example, and you’ll be redirected to dogidcollar.com. Do you want life insurance? Lifeinsurance.com redirects to nmfn.com (and so does northwesternmutualfinancialnetwork.com).
While having keyword domain names may not draw a lot of site visitors, using them is a technique to consider.
How to use more than one domain
Set up your website with your primary domain, and use that domain on your correspondence and with your customers.
Point secondary domains to your site using URL forwarding (also called domain forwarding, domain redirect, or URL redirect). To have the secondary domain appear in the browser, use domain masking. You can set up these features when you log in to your account with your domain registrar (if your registrar offers these services).
With domains that are simply variations of your primary domain, you can expect additional traffic just from having set up these domains. With domains that contain keywords, you can get more from them by using them to list your site in online directories. When these domains appear in search results, searchers will see the keywords.
The next step
Once you decide on the available domains that you want, register them immediately. They might not be available tomorrow.
If you don’t already have a business name, you’ll find it easier to market your business online if you choose a primary domain and a business name together. If your first choice for a business name doesn’t work well with any available domains, consider a business name that you can easily market with an available domain. Once you’ve registered that domain name and your business name, register secondary domains and put them to use.
Is it worth registering multiple domains for one site? That depends on your site, but any variations that you don’t register will be available for competitors to register and use. If a domain is valuable to a competitor, it’s valuable to you.
Click here to start your domain search
Posted by Tauno on under Domain Names, Earning With Domains |
It’s a fact that there are many Internet Entrepreneurs who are making in excess of $25,000 a month and some are making more than $100,000 every month from Google’s Adsense program.
However, it’s also a fact that some Adsense publishers are struggling to make the minimum required to trigger a monthly payment of only $100.
Just in case you didn’t know, Adsense is a program offered by Google that allows anyone with a website, or who is going to publish a website, the facility to publish Google Ads from which you (the website owner) receive a portion of the advertiser’s payment every time a site visitor clicks on one of those Google Ads on your site.
So therefore, the more the advertiser pays for their ad to be shown on a particular site, the more the publisher receives when a site visitor clicks on that ad.
Most webmasters who have Adsense ads on their sites know all about blending the ads into their site’s theme, choosing the right size ads and positioning the ads optimally.
Google’s own heatmap suggests where to place your ads to get the most clicks and therefore maximize your adsense earnings.
However, despite having done all of the above, some sites will continue to have much higher adsense earnings than others.
This can, of course, be attributed to many variables including the following;
1.Traffic
The site with more traffic should out perform the site with less traffic, but this is not always the case.
The following factors can influence this.
2.The number of Ad Blocks on the site
The more adsense ads there are on a web page the less value each ad’s click will generate, ie it seems that the advertising revenue becomes diluted as the number of ads increases
3.Google’s Smart Pricing
Google’s smart pricing influences the amount of revenue paid to the publisher
4.The Advertiser’s advertising Budget
The amount the advertiser is willing to pay to have his ads published on your site will also influence the amount of your portion of his advertising fee.
5.Industry – Niche Market
This is a crucial factor in determining Adsense revenue.
As you can well imagine, a website about “Mating Habits of the North Sea Clam†will not have as many advertisers clamoring to get their ads on that site as a site that is all about “Website Hosting†will, for example.
What this means is that an advertiser wishing to have an adsense presence on the former site will have to pay far less for top keywords than advertisers on the latter.
As you can see the more competitive a market or industry is, the more advertisers are willing to pay for their adsense adverts.
Some sites regularly generate more than a dollar a click whereas others can only muster $0.01 per click at best.
6.Content
Bearing in mind the above point, it follows that the content on your site will directly influence the type of ads you’ll receive via Google’s adsense script.
So if your content is all about red widgets, Google’s adsense script will place ads from red widget advertisers on your site, provided advertisers in this market do in fact exist.
Conversely if your content is geared towards web design you can be rest assured that there are many advertisers paying good money to have their web design adsense ads published.
7.Site Popularity
It’s also fairly obvious that advertisers would be willing to pay more to have their ads placed on high profile sites than those that aren’t as popular.
Now to the crux of this article.
What type of Website will generate killer dollars from Google’s Adsense?
Whilst all of the above are important to make the big dollars from Adsense, an astute internet entrepreneur would build a site that simply targets high paying Adsense advertisers and simultaneously attracts large numbers of targeted site visitors.
Sounds simple enough but before you rush off to build your `Site made for Adsense’ just remember that a site stuffed with the highest paying keywords will not only be frowned upon by Google but will hold no interest for your site visitors and consequently your site’s popularity and success will be around zero.
About the Author: The author, Mark Bellinger is a university graduate, successful businessman and creator of the following websites: http://www.internetbusiness.co.za – http://www.income.za.net
Posted by Tauno on under Domain Tools, Internet, MakeWords.com, Reviews, Technology, Web 2.0 |
Fresh from the Google Labs – Google Suggests finds alternative keywords of your query as you type, ranked by popularity. These can be very inspiring when brainstorming for your new business name.
Read more from their FAQ
Posted by Tauno on under Business Names, Domain Tools, Internet, MakeWords.com, New Features, Startup Business |
Go to the free online Business Name Generator
Naming your business is one of the most important decisions you are facing when establishing a new company.
There’s a lot of room for creativity, but in order to have a truly unique, memorable and brandable name, you need to consider certain basics:
- You need a distinctive name that characterizes what your business does
- The name must be pronounceable, brandable and relatively short
- You want a name that has an available .com domain
While the first two are a matter of brainstorming and consulting with your friends or colleagues, getting the third one right can be an impossibly difficult task to encounter. With more than 50 million .com domains registered today, you can spend hours looking them up in the Whois database one-by-one, only to find that all the sensible ones are already taken. Fortunately there are the domain name suggestion tools, like http://www.makewords.com/, that generate hundreds of name ideas instantly, and speeds up the domain name search process greatly.
Very often the names have nothing to do with the underlying business, or service, such as Kodak, Google, eBay. Remember, it’s the uniqueness of the name – you want to distinguish yourself from your competitors. Deep etymology is secondary compared to the uniqueness and brandability of the name.
Another way to decide on a domain name is to try to figure out what message you want to convey to people and combine a couple of short words together, that are easy to remember. Many small businesses prefer to use words that cleverly suggest qualities about the underlying product or service without describing them outright, such as Lending Tree for loans, Slenderella for diet food products, or The Body Shop for personal hygiene products. Such names can easily be generated with the MakeWords.com Popular Affixes or Synonym searches.
If you’ve found the perfect name for your business, you have to take the extra step to secure it by registering the domain name. Domain name registration is not something to be intimidated about. It is a straightforward process, where you just have to follow the step-by-step instructions given by your domain registration provider. All you need to know, is your contact information. No technical knowledge is required.
If you don’t know which domain name registrar to choose, take a look at our top domain registrars page. If you are unsure, go with a known registrar like Yahoo or GoDaddy.
Try it! http://www.makewords.com/ business name generator.
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A popular way of producing a domain name is by adding an affix to it. Names like besttoys.com or buy-adventure-books.com are very easy to remember. And since they contain the actual words people are searching for, they are search-engine friendly.
We have carefully selected hundreds of affixes that contain such words. You can easily combine these words with your own keywords to find available domains. Try it with the MakeWords name suggestions generator.
Naturally, it is much harder to find names with keywords like home, travel or pets. In such cases you have an option to:
- use synonyms
- check the insert a hyphen checkbox to produce names like home-abc.com or home-tips.com
- type in an optional Extra Prefix (like my or the) or Extra Suffix (s for plurals, d for past tense etc.) to get results like mytravelabc.com or petwins.com.
Since there are different words for different needs, we have sorted them to separate categories. The Positive Thinking category for example contains the names that are meant to provoke positive thoughts - like best, free, super, win. The Shopping category contains affixes usually used in e-commerce websites, like buy, savings, value, discounts and so on.
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A good name doesn’t necessarily have to mean something, as long as it is short and pronounceable enough to be brandable and memorable.
Such random names can be found easily with the www.MakeWords.com Name Search and Suggestions Generator.Example results are Acceli, Corol, Avaring, Photory, Teleter.
With every click, ten new names are generated using some preset language rules, that make the word sound like it would derive from a certain language. Without getting into much detail, the way it is done is analyzing the probability of certain letter sequences and lexical patterns of that language. With some luck, you’ll get a short, available domain name within a couple of minutes.
It is always a good idea to click on the alternatives link when a name you like is taken, to get more results from the Yahoo domain name suggestion engine. And if you need time to think about which name you are going to choose, just click on save, so you can create a list of domains and review it later in My Favorites; or maybe show it to your friends of colleagues to get a second opinion.
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