The importance of choosing a good domain name is vital in the Internet marketing business. Not only is the domain name the first clue that any person has, each visitor to your website is a potential cash paying customer. That it is also the first feature that most search engines have to judge your site by. In this article you will find the importance of having a good domain name, and how to go about choosing one.

1. The Importance of choosing a good Domain Name
Choosing the right domain name can potentially make or break you in the Internet marketing business.
After all, not only is the domain name the first clue that any human visitor, and each visitor to your
website is a potential cash-paying customer, but it is also the first feature that most search engines have
to judge your site by.
There are people who make money online with a domain name such as x7y.com or whatever, but those
tend to be the exceptions rather than the rule. Those who DO succeed in this manner either have a
compelling product, a great advertising campaign, or some other factor which influences their success
in spite of the strange URL which does not tell a visitor anything about their site. Personally I use
http://amihomebiz.com Ami because it's my mentors name of their 1st
daughter and homebiz short for
home business and it is successful.
The fact is, that people on the Internet are usually looking for information. If they are looking for car
parts, they are more likely to be attracted to a domain name which includes the phrase "car parts", or at
least "cars" than one that just has a string of letters or which is vaguely identified as "bobs" website. Of
course, one place where this can be refuted is in the instance where the person or company has acquired
name recognition, i.e. branding, so that people know what they are looking at. For example, most
people seeing ibm.com would have a good idea that this site is going to give them info about IBM,
copiers, computers, and related subjects.
However, most of us are not that lucky, or famous, that we can just assume that everyone, human or
search engine, is going to know what our name stands for and automatically go to our website.
It is for this reason that most Internet marketing courses attempting to explain why choosing a good
domain name is very important, will recommend that you attempt to select a domain name which in
some way reflects either the basic business you are in, or specifically as possible defines the product or
products you are trying to sell.
This is where the Internet marketer has to make some decisions.
For example, let's say a company called "Amar's Fitness" has some great exercise and weight loss
products. However, Amar's name is not going to arouse a lot of interest, so, throwing pride to the side,
Amar decides to incorporate the words "fitness" or perhaps "weight loss" into his domain name. As he
begins his search, he realizes that all the best variations on "fitness" and "weight loss" have been used
up on the dot com's and dot net's.
In order to make hisdomain name stand out, Amar now has to figure out some way to incorporate these
words into his URL. He can try some variations such as "fitness101", "fitnessbyamar",
"fitnessweightlosshome", "fitness-weight-loss-home", or some other variation or combination. He may
realize that he offers some sort of "crunch-master" machine and that people seeking fitness info
sometimes use the word "crunch" (for non-exercisers, a crunch is an exercise for abdominal muscles)
and put that into his domain name.
That may or may not work, but Amar will not know until he tries it...and incorporates as many search
engine optimization steps as possible, or pays for some high class advertising, or just gets lucky.
Since the dot com's and dot net's are taken, Amar might be able to find another extension, such as
.us, .ws, or .tv, just to name a few One of them may still have the domain name he wants available as
everybody has been concentrating on the com's and net's. This use of a less well known extension may
penalize Amar a little bit, but these extensions are becoming better known daily, and the ability to
choose the right domain name may be more important than the theoretical drawback of having a not-

2. well-known extension on the end.
As pointed out earlier, a human looking for information is going to look for a word in the domain name
which has something to do with his or her search. The search engine robot (spider) will generally do
the same. Both the human and the robot will generally compare the word or words in the domain name
with the information included in the website content to assign a value, for the search engine, a ranking,
to the web page.
So, our original question was "Why is choosing a good domain name important?" The answer is;
because it is one of the first and can be one of the most important search engine optimization
techniques you can select.