When you have decided what you are going to blog about then the next step is to pick your domain name.  I recommend you pick a domain name that will have your main keyword in the URL.  A keyword is the word that is searched on Google everyday by users that will hopefully get directed to your blog.

To research what keywords are searched on a monthly basis on Google I recommend the following free tool:

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

As an example I am going to target the keyword “LCD Tvs” in this guide

You will then be shown a list of the commonly used keywords used in that niche, with the Global monthly search volume is the amount of times a month that keyword is searched on Google worldwide and the local search volume is the country your in.  On the “Match Type” box on the right select “Phrase” and this will highlight the keyword phrase with “commas”.  Now what you want to do is go to Google.com and see what competition there is for this keyword.  What you want to do is find a keyword that has less then 50,000 competing websites because the less competition for that keyword the more likely you will rank on page 1 for that keyword.

For example go to Google and do the following with your chosen keyword (The keyword I chose from my list was “best flat screen tv” which has a monthly search volume of 9,900) making sure to put the quote marks around your keyword.

Now once you have chosen the keyword you want to target, next is to search online to see if there is a domain available that has your main keyword within the domain name.

The ideal domain extensions you want are

1. First option for .com if its available
2. 2^nd option if .com is taken is .org
3. 3^rd option if both .com and .org are taken then get .net

If all 3 extensions are taken then what you can do is add something to the end of the domain for example:

www.bestflatscreentvonline.com

www.bestflatscreentvworld.com

www.bestflatscreentvinfo.com

etc..

Make sure you don’t have any dashes (-) in your domain name and make sure your keyword starts at the beginning.

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Facebook is a great social network site to use to monitise and drive traffic to your website.  Watch the following video by Jeff Johnston for tactics by using viral marketing.

When your deciding on your next website you need to plan your domain name purchase very carefully as this is probably the most important part when setting up your website and achieving a great search engine position

First what you need to do is understand your niche, understanding the market and your website niches main keywords and also LSI keywords.  Its also good to find out your long tail keywords.  There are 2 tools you can use, one of them is free and the other is a paid version which is the most respected and used by experienced internet marketers because the many features and detailed results it gives.  The free version is the Google Adwords Keyword Tool

The second tool which i highly recommend and i personally use on a regular basis is the Keyword Elite 2.0 . The reason this tool is very good is because it will find out all the keywords that are searched everyday on search engines and will also give a much better list then the Google adwords free tool.  You will also find all the LSI keywords and long tail keywords which you can use as part of your optimisation phase when building your website.  Use the tool to do a search on your main keyword and see what the competition is like, how many times a month it is searched for.  Then filter through the results and then see if a domain name matching one of your main keywords is available.

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Another great use of the Keyword Elite 2.0 is that you can use it to look for low competition keywords that you can dominate the search engines with if the domain name for that keyword is available you can pratically have a website on page 1 of Google within a few weeks if the competition for that keyword is below 12,000

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Youtube is now becoming a major tool for searching online for breaking news similar to how twitter is being used.  For example if there is a news story people will most likely go to youtube to search for a video relating to this news piece.  Some people will use Twitter to search for information regarding this news piece.

A great way to use youtube to drive traffic to your website is to be the first to upload any breaking news to your youtube account and you will see a massive increase in video views on this video.  You can download the news video from any major news site as long as you mention where you got the video from in the description.  To drive the traffic to your website you can simply place your website link in the description offering a free gift to intice your youtube viewers to click on your link and give them a free gift to download in exchange they give you their email to help build up your email subscribers for example.  Once that user is on your website then you have a better chance of getting a sale if you are selling something or a service on your website.

You can also use it to build up your twitter followers by placing your twitter account in the video description.

Also once you have reached over 150,000 views on your videos you can then apply for the youtube google adsense partner programme and make money from your videos aswell.  Joining their partnership programme means you will make money from any advertisement that is shown on that page from youtube.  You will earn commission if a viewer clicks on those adverts.