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If you are planning on a make money blog, having your own domain name is important because it establishes your blog identity, affects your ranking in search engines and the money value of your make money blog should you decide to sell your make money blog later on.

A dot com domain name costs about $7 a year upwards. Don’t save the $7. There are several points to keep in mind when deciding on a domain name for your make money blog.

1. Include A Main Keyword In Domain Name
   Choose a domain name that contains at least one main keyword. For example, if your blog is going to be about making money online, try and include “money” or some related word in it. This makes your blog more search engine friendly and helps in getting your blog rank higher in the search results pages.

2. Make A List Of Relevant Keywords
   List down main keywords or key phrases relevant to your blog topic. These are keywords you would use to type into search engines if you were searching for information on that topic.

3. Use Keyword Research Tools
   Keyword research tools help to check which words get more search results, Here are some free online keyword tools to use:

   http://tools.seobook.com/general/keyword/
   http://www.ovtkeywords.com/

4. Use Domain Name Suggestion Tools
   Once you have a few keywords, you can try and form a domain name in different variations. Domain name suggestion tools are useful to give you some ideas:

   http://www.domainsbot.com/
   http://domain-suggestions.domaintools.com/

5. Create A Short Memorable Domain
   Try and configure the main keywords into a short, memorable domain name that is relevant to your blog topic.

6. Keep To Dot Com Domains
   These rank higher in search engine results, have higher perceived authority and better resale value.

7. Invalid Characters
   Your domain name cannot contain spaces, or begin or end with a hyphen. These characters are invalid: _ ! @ # $ % ^ & * + = ; :

8. Avoid Hyphens
   Don’t use hyphens as they can be confusing to remember. For example, http://moreblogmoney.com is better than http://more-blog-money.com

Chances are you will find it very difficult to have a short domain name that makes sense. The next best thing would be to incorporate keywords into a medium length domain name.

Choosing a domain name registrar

There are many good domain name registrars which charge $7 to $9 for a dot com. To do some research, go to the domain name section of www.webhostingtalk.com. If you have several domains you’d like to register, consider using more than one registrar. It’s a precautionary move of not putting all your eggs in one basket.

Once you have registered your domain name, you can now move on to choose a web hosting plan and web host to set up your make money blog and start to earn by blogging.

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