A .org domain extension is used for organizations. Registering them comes with an extra fee in addition to paying for the domain name. Domain extensions ending in .net are used for networks. There are extensions for specific countries as well. Extensions that end in .uk represent websites that reside in the United Kingdom. The extension .ca is for Canada, and .cn represents China.

There are nearly a hundred different domain extensions to choose from. When picking out an extension, it is important to consider the price. Some domain extensions are much more expensive than others.

Anchor Text Links
The best kind of links you can get are those with an anchor text that is a keyword that you are going after. If your main keyword is “blue widgets”, the best links you can get are those with an anchor text with those words in it. It is also best to have the links embedded in the body of a paragraph.

There are some reasons why these are the best links. First of all, having an anchor text tells search engines which keyword the website is giving you a vote for. If it’s just a hyperlink, search engines will give you a ‘point’ for that, but won’t know which keywords to assign that point to.

Another reason these are great links to have is because they appear natural and it looks like someone is clearly going out of their way to point people to your website. If your link appears on the sidebar or footer of a webpage, that is still a valuable link. But Google knows that those links are just an afterthought. When Google sees your link within the main body of a page, it knows that the writer feels like it’s the most important link on that page.

Guest Writing on Authority Websites
All websites have different authority levels. Authority is the measure of how important Google thinks a website is. With Google the pagerank is what indicates authority levels. With link building, not all links are equal. A link from a high authority website is weighed a lot more than a low authority website.

The best way to get a link from an authority website is to simply write a piece of content for that site and asking the owner if you could guest post it on his site. Then in the body of your content, but an anchor text link. This is called trading content for links. Google is okay with this on the most part as long as the content is original and of high quality.

There are many link building methods out there, including ones that don’t work or may even hurt your search engine ranking. These are just a couple of ways to get quality links that Google and other search engines will like and will promote you for.

In addition to staying away from domains that are too long you should watch out for the dreaded double letter issue, where two letters would sit side by side. Again this can cause some spelling trouble. It’s never a wise decision to confuse your customers so keep things as simple and as memorable as possible.

If your goals are to get your web site ranked for a specific keyword the consensus, as of today, is to include the keyword in your domain name. This makes it easy for the search engines to determine what your website is about. Once you have an idea for a domain name it’s time to search the registrars to see if the name is available.

GoDaddy and Namecheap are two very popular registrars that can tell you if the domain that you have chosen is available. If not they even have domain suggestion tools to give you ideas for more. One word of warning the suggestion tools will tell you that the domain is available in other extensions besides .com – if at all possible, stick with the .com extension. This is the extension that most used by consumers and the one they are most likely to type in when searching for your business. Once you find the name that you like, the registrar will give you the option of adding the domain to your shopping cart, add it and then select checkout, and you are now the owner of your new domain name!

So if our goal is to get on the first page, how do we o about doing that?

This of course is the 64 million dollar question, for if we knew the precise formula, we would all have enough free traffic to retire to some far away exotic island. Google keeps their algorithms top secret but seo experts are always reverse engineering to see hat works and what doesn’t. There are some constants to keep in mind whenever designing a page get high rankings. The number one consideration when creating content for your web page is to write content that would be considered valuable information to your reader, that is, write with your reader in mind rather than Google.

Gone are the days that you can trick Google into thinking that your page is about something by stuffing your keyword in as many sentences as you can. In fact, your page ranking will be rewarded simply by writing naturally and including words that might be related to your main keyword. You find related keywords with any good keyword tool or even by using Goggle’s own Wonder Wheel, related search options.

Finally, using the Meta title and description tags will help Google understand you better. Including your main and related keywords in your page content, title and descriptions can prove to be all you need for words with little competition. For more completive words, try doing some back linking practices to get your web page in the top 10 Google search results.