Help Making my First Conversion

[noslermarketing]

Man I don't like you guys (kidding). All the work I've done on a web site is out the window with this thread. I've got to start all over but thanks to you guys I'm headed in a safer direction. I really want this to work and I've got the drive. Someone take me under your wing lol.

[CDarklock]

Originally Posted by mwong

That depends on what is your domain name. If your domain is "tarotforyou", it will be confusing if you put /dogfood.

If you're going to promote multiple products, your main domain should refer to you or your company rather than any specific niche or product. If your name is Joe Spitzelschmidt, you would want to do something like "joespitzelschmidt.com/myproduct" or "spitzelschmidt-enterprises.com/myproduct"... that way, if you pick the wrong niche, you can easily refocus your efforts on a different niche without trashing your domain or the traffic it already gets.

Not that I think anyone is going to be typing "spitzelschmidt" into a URL with any kind of frequency or accuracy, so if your name is difficult, consider your company name carefully. ;)

[Linda Buquet]

In most cases I would disagree with name or company name domain for affiliates - unless that company name also includes your keywords (example ABCpetproducts.com would be OK but joeshmoe.com would not be of much value).

Ideally you don't want a bunch of unrelated products or niches - you want a single focused or multiple related niches on one domain name. AND you want your keywords in the name.

So for example if you didn't want to commit to too narrow of a niche or were worried about the wrong niche, but knew you wanted to be in the financial niche you could get a generic name like 4lowrates.com that would work with insurance, mortages, car loans or CC - or market them all since they are all sub niches of the finance niche.

[CDarklock]

Originally Posted by Linda Buquet

Ideally you don't want a bunch of unrelated products or niches - you want a single focused or multiple related niches on one domain name. AND you want your keywords in the name.

Once you have focus, I agree - but until you find it, flexibility is more valuable, so you can try multiple niches and different focus without much impact. It seems more critical that you get out there and do something, rather than agonise over your keywords and whether they really fit the niche you'll ultimately have.

And I tend to disagree on keywords in the domain name. I just have a basic sense that the benefit is minimal, and it robs you of later flexibility. Does it really matter that much? It seems like "GoFishingNow" or the like would do more harm than good in the minds of your visitors - and next to nothing in the search engine rankings. I'm more likely to trust "Spitzelschmidt/Fishing", even if there's also a "Spitzelschmidt/Quilting". It just feels like it's more of a continuing relationship.