There are several ways you can go about purchasing website name for your online business or for your personal online blog. Video marketing is one way to promote your domain name. In case you have a personal blog you can simply use the free services at Wordpress or Blogger and use your own name. If you are starting a great internet business, however, that is not the strategy you should utilize.

When you get a website name you actually own a small piece of internet 'real estate'. So long as you don't break any laws you can apply whatever you want with that domain. In the event you rely on the free sites you will be at their mercy. That could not seem like a big deal right now but if you raise your very profitable web business and Google (who owns Blogger.com) decides that they don't like anything you do, they can shut your website down with no notification. Think of what it would feel like to go to bed one evening with a very successful internet business only to wake up the next morning to discover that your website is gone! If you think I'm just being weird you must ask around in the discussion boards online and see if that has occurred to anyone. Since it only costs around $10 to buy a domain name, it's just not worth a chance.

The next thing to consider for getting website name is what should your name be? The obvious way to answer that is to do keyword research and compile a list of keywords associated with your niche market that get high monthly queries. With your keyword list in hand head off to some online website name registrars like GoDaddy.com or NameCheap.com. Once there, you simply go down your keyword list until you locate a domain name that is available.

So, let's imagine you have a keyword that is "make money online". You would go to a domain registrar, type in the phrase "make money online" choose your extension (I personally think it's ok to use either a .com or a .net) and see if that domain can be purchased. If it is you just have to check out, and it's yours. If you wish to get a domain name that has already been purchased by someone you can go to domain auction websites and try to buy it there. You can expect to pay more since the domain name has actually been online in most cases and will already be generating traffic.

But, since it's already getting traffic this may be a great way to quick start your business, so it's not all bad, if you can afford it. Getting website name for your online business really isn't difficult or expensive. To get the biggest bang out of your website name just follow these simple tips. When you use a real keyword for your website name you will get many free traffic and that is always a nice thing.