Question: Did you register a domain name for your web business?

• Yes – 128/823 (16%)
• No – 695/823 (84%)

As you can see, an overwhelming majority of our readers have not registered a domain name for their Internet business. We recommend that you register a domain name for your business if you have not done so already. In today’s business world, building your online presence should be a top priority especially if you are in a competitive industry.

We recommend Above.com for new domain registrations. They offer everyday low prices on domain names, as well as free whois privacy protection.

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What exactly is a keyword rich domain name? It’s a URL that, instead of using a brand or company name such as www.companyX.com, uses keywords like www.anytownusakitchenappliancesandgadgets.com. Previously, the search engines may have ranked this website for “Anytown USA kitchen appliances and gadgets”, but the focus is increasingly on the end user, the actual person searching. Aside from trying to get noticed by the search engines, is this long keyword rich domain name beneficial? Not really. There’s no chance that an actual potential customer would remember that crazy URL. The domain name for a business should be the brand name. Think of how the receptionist answers the phone and greets a caller. It would sound ridiculous for them to say, “Good afternoon, you’ve called Anytown USA Kitchen Appliances and Gadgets”, wouldn’t it? If it doesn’t make sense as a greeting, it doesn’t make sense as the URL either.

Most businesses have the smarts to avoid using this kind of URL as their homepage URL, so instead they are utilizing this strategy in a not so obvious way. What is more common is creating a microsite with a domain that is keyword rich. A microsite is a separate site that focuses on a topic that is more specific than the content on the main website. A microsite should serve a purpose other than for SEO. A black hat tactic is to create lots of keyword rich domain microsites that target specific keywords, such as a separate site for every location of a business.

The Google Panda and Penguin updates are targeting sites that are low quality and don’t benefit searchers. Having a keyword rich microsite is a spammy way to get the attention of the search engines and eventually get a searcher over to your main page.

To avoid getting hit by the Panda and Penguin updates, focus on creating lots of good content on one website instead of spreading it out over lots of microsites. Use a branded domain name instead of one that’s stuffed with keywords. The search engines see right through it and will penalize you accordingly.

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Is it easy to use? Absolutely!  Above.com Parking Manager allows you to view and compare your domain results, as it provides detailed statistics on daily revenue, traffic and demographics.

Customize the parking manager to suit your choice of domains, whilst still maintaining a direct relationship with each individual parking company; the companies will still pay you directly.

Moving domains between parking companies can often be time consuming and can cause a loss in revenue. Above parking manager increases productivity by automatically redirecting 5% of the traffic to other parking services and testing the results. If, during this trial, the other companies perform better, more traffic will be automatically moved to increase revenues. Prior to Above.com you would have to manually update you name severs every time you wanted to switch parking companies.

If a domain is under-performing or is blacklisted Above.com will automatically move the traffic to the next best performing service.

Above.com Parking Manager currently supports the below parking platforms:

• BigJumbo
• DDC
• DomainSponsor
• FirstLook
• Hitfarm
• Hotkeys
• NameDrive
• Parked
• Sedo
• Skenzo
• TrafficZ

You can choose to create new accounts at other parking platforms that Above supports; you decide which companies you want to work with.
Above.com has proven to be a very successful program and the standard Above.com Parking Manager service is free. Unlike other services, Above does not take a percentage of your parking revenues and there are no hidden costs.

What’s the catch?! An enterprise edition of Above.com Parking Manager will be released soon; the extra features will make you want to purchase a subscription.

This is a graph which shows the change in revenue after switching to Above Parking Manager. This graph is just one of the many statistical break-downs that the parking manager can provide you with.

To check out the Above.com Parking manager register for a new account, at: http://www.above.com/register.html or if you have a Trellian account, just log in using your Trellian account details at: www.above.com

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