The most difficult decision about a website or a blog is to choose 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 domain name of a website plays a very important role in SEO, if you choose well you have some very important points earned, the domain is like the license plate of a car is unique, it is the way to identify your content and associate some 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 (to match an exact search) because it is penalized to have names like this, there are many errors that we commit inadvertently with SEO.
General tips for choosing a domain for a blog:
Buy in a cheap but safe site, save that money saved for hosting. You must find out if the offer links you more time to have your blog and what price would remain in the following years because there are many trap offers that put honey in your mouth and then a year they nail you.
Choose a good hosting without worrying about it
Avoid names with accents do not appear in the urls so look for a synonym because it is very difficult to position, if you want to see accents in the urls 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 memorable 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 regionally, for example a blog from a store that sells in Cataunya, you can choose the.cat extension, es is a very good option for blogs in Spanish.
Free domains tend to have strange extensions that are not SEO friendly or easy to remember, 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 to start to rank as soon as possible.
Avoid fancy names or names that need an explanation to associate with the topic: I fell into this myself when I put on another blog Negocioscaninos and see that it was not a good idea but a horrible one, I still maintain it but I know that the domain name drags me many handicaps What:
- Confusion with another activity, that increases the bounce rate a lot because many visit 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 to see that you are penalized.
Former conflicting owners, Imagine the spam that it could generate if it was a download directory, a forum… because there are times when domains are bought at auctions.
Limitations when it comes to migration email accounts, dynamic DNS… there are times that they are “capped” so that you have to hire the hosting with the same company, anyway a domain is not so expensive and there are packages with hosting so varied that there are.
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 an email service.
