Today’s project: truckbedmat.org. I was researching automotive products the other night, trying to figure out another domain name that could have the same amount of success as my Truck Bumpers website. Also, truck bed mats happen to be somewhat related to my floor mats website. Ideally, I would like to dominate the area of floor mats, truck bed mats, and cargo liners.

Recently I decided to refurbish my Husky Floor Liners site. Through some keyword research, I figured out that the term floor mats is more popular than the term floor liners. At the time I had husky-floor-liners.com and floor-liners.com, so I decided to merge the 2 sites into one ultra floor mat and liner site. So far I have not made any sales, but sales have been slow lately anyways. I think in the long term the site will do much better since I will be able to link back and forth between articles and product pages and build a massive car, truck and suv floor liners and mats website.

With the merging of the 2 sites, I’m now able to promote Husky Liners and WeatherTech (the 2 top brands) as well as Lloyd Liners, Hexomat, Nifty Liners, Intro-Tech, Rugged Ridge Liners and more.

Recently I received an email from DNForum.com announcing their brand new service, ContentMiniSites.com. I almost deleted it but the name struck my curiosity. After further investigation, I found out that ContentMiniSites.com builds content and keyword rich websites for your individual domain names. The way it works is you tell them the domain name and topic that you want them to build a site for, they do all of the keyword research, build you a custom header, enter keyword rich article categories and fill your site with 100-200 pages of content. They even put together a sitemap for you to submit to Google! You then enter your adsense ID and start collecting the ad revenue for your website. Not bad for $19-$50 a site!

The way that they are able to do it so cheap is they use e-zine articles from ezinearticles.com as the content. So, there is the issue of possible duplicate content penalization. However, maybe with that much targeted content and everything else it won’t matter much. My estimation is that the site would still perform much better than simple domain name parking that people typically run away from.

I plan on buying a package, and when I do, I will post my results and overall review of their service.

For more information, checkout ContentMiniSites.com.

Choosing the right domain name for your website is critical to your success. I’ve probably registered well over 400 domain names in my life and after throwing away 399.5 junk domain names I can tell you the difference between a good domain name and a bad one. Instead of telling you what you definitely should or should not buy, I will give you some suggestions based on your sites purpose.

1. Personal Sites: Register your name as your domain name. Regardless of if you plan on starting your own website or not, register your name! I registered both my full name and short name, andyisaacson.com and andrewisaacson.com many years ago. If you cannot get your first/last name, try getting your first name/last initial or something easy to remember.
2. Blog Sites: Try to come up with something unique, something catchy. More and more I’m noticing that the big blogs have a unique identity. I would try to avoid putting the word “blog” in my blog domain name. I put the name blog in “Blog of Revenue” because I thought it was catchy. Had it been “Revenue Blog” it might have been kinda cheesy, however, it also might have received better search engine ranking. Some good examples of unique, popular blog names are: engadget, lifehacker, technorati, doshdosh, just to name a few. I helped a friend setup a blog today that will be dedicated to Registered Nurses. We registered the name rnitus.com. Its catchy, short, has to do with “RN’s” and a disease. Perfect.
3. Forum Sites: As with blogs, forums also demand a certain level of a unique/catchy name. However, I think that with forums it is most important to grab the most direct keyword domain name available. You can cover for not having a unique/catchy name with a sweet logo and design. Because so many people are searching directly for “Dodge Dakota Forum”, “Mac Forum”, “Honda Forum”, those are the best domain names to purchase (dodgedakotaforum.com, macforum.com, hondaforum.com). When the “forum” domain name is not available, look for something catchy. To find out what keywords people are using, check out: SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool.
4. Ecommerce Sites: A unique/catchy domain name that relates to your product and niche is important. A few good examples of domain names in the Auto Parts industry for example are: AutoAnything.com, AutoPartsWarehouse.com and TruckRacingParts.com. Very descriptive and still catchy. These domain names leave the user with no question as to what the sites might be selling.

www.GoDaddy.com is the only registrar that I will ever use. They have competitive pricing, the best domain name management, and the best customer support that I have used so far. I have used other companies such as Network Solutions, Moniker and Enom in the past and GoDaddy is way better in every area.

In the end, you want a domain name that people can remember. The most important thing is the content you put on your site. Stay tuned and we will get to that shortly.