Tom | 
02 8th, 2008| 
I’ve bought quite a few domains over the years, a lot of which just sit and do nothing. I may have had a good idea at one point and bought a domain in anticipation of creating a new site, only to forget all about it or realize that the idea might not have been so great. So this little write-up is more of a guide on how to get a good domain name, where to buy them and other domain questions.
So you have an idea for a site geared towards making money. The topic of the site isn’t necessarily “Making Money” but your main purpose for creating the site is to make money through displaying ads somehow. Now one of the best ways to get people to your site right from the start is to buy a domain that someone already owns or that a site is already created on. And by this I mean you find a site that someone may be selling on one of the many web marketing forums out there, that the person just has no use for anymore, or didn’t do what they wanted with. It’s going to cost you more than it would if you registered the domain yourself, but if the domain has been around longer it helps with SEO (search engine optimization). Google and other search engines sometimes look down on sites that are strictly looking to make money and have just started up. Now this isn’t always the case though, if you have legitimate content on your site and people like reading it then you should be ok with SEO from the start, that’s not saying you are going to be #1 in google from day 1, that takes work and another write-up. So click below to check out some tips for buying domain names.