Creating and choosing a domain name is very important, especially for SEO. I can say it is one of the main parts of successful in SEO. Maybe some people don’t realize about this and choose incorrect domain name.

Here are some suggestions of choosing a great domain for your niche :

1. Remember to choose a domain name that contains your niche or your main keyword.
2. Consider about domain TLD.
3. Consider about using dashes or underscores or none of them.

Okay, I will give a further explanation about above suggestions with the assumption that you already find your niche. For example I have a niche internet marketing Indonesia.

1. Your domain must be contains keyword internet marketing Indonesia.
2. Prefer to use .com than .net, .info, .biz, etc. If the .com already use by another people than use .net, .info, .biz, etc.
3. Internetmarketingindonesia.com > internet-marketing-indonesia.com > internet_marketing_indonesia.com

If you push to not use dashes or underscore, you can also use a misspelled type for your domain. For example internetmarketingindonesi.com, internetmarketingindonesian.com.

Now, I will explain about domain and hosting like I promised to you in my past article. Do you have email? Absolutely yes, maybe yahoo mail is the most email provider that is used by all of the people. How do you go to your email? First, open your internet browser and you must to type www.yahoo.com, right? Aha… www.yahoo.com that’s called a domain. So, a domain name is a name given to a collection of network devices that belong to domain which is an administrative space managed according to some common characteristics of the members. The examples are google.com, friendster.com, anne-ahira.net, the-business-cn, and many more.

Oya, I almost forget to tell you about this. Every domain name ends in a top-level domain (TLD) name, which is always either one of a small list of generic names (three or more characters), or a two-character territory code based on ISO-3166 (there are few exceptions and new codes are integrated case by case). Top-level domains are sometimes also called first-level domains. The TLD is like .com (usually use), .net (usually for network), .info, .org (usually for organization), .biz, .name, and many more. Each of them has different price to buy it.

Okay… Now I will explain to you about hosting. To explain this, I will give you an illustration to make it easier to you to understand. You have television, right? How can you make that television become ON? What do you need? Electricity… Yes, you got it! Hosting is the same as electricity. To make your domain can be viewed by another people at World Wide Web (WWW), you need a hosting. Have you understood already?

Hosting also has a lot of types depends on their disk space, bandwidth, server, price and many more. So, you must find the hosting that suitable with what you need.

If you still feel not clear with my explanation, you can contact me, okay. I will pleasure to help you.