When you are building a blog the first thing you need to consider is your Keywords. The keywords that you choose will determine the domain name that you choose. When you take these two things into consideration that is the best start possible. You will want your keywords included in your domain name.
Here are a couple of places to determine your quality keywords.
Wordtracker - They have a 7-10 day free trail that will give you able time to determine your keywords and do your research.
Goodkeywords – This is a free service for as long as you want to use it.
Web Ceo – They have a great keyword research tools as well as many other tools that you can use for free for life.
Here are a few places you can look for Domain names.
Global domains international – This can also be a source of income, they have a great referral and bonus program.
You will want to host your domain on a good hosting service. I recommend a service that has good customer service and also has all of the other services included as well. Those other services include but are not limited to; Awstats,Mysql database,email accounts,a large bandwith, and a service that is up at least 99.9% of the time.
Host Gator – has a great service and it includes many features that you may need at some point and it will save on having to change hosting companies later on. You can also import your blog posts if you have a blog started already.
The next thing you will want to do is get a good blog platform. You can choose to use a free platform but you will get no where near the results you want. To get the best results you can use an Seo blog software package that is already tweeked to your liking.
Free Seo blog software – Get it now from (Jeff Johnson’s Underground training lab) bookmark this page as it includes the instructions to install the software.
Bookmark this page to use as a reference
Once you have your blog set up and get some content on it then you can start link building and submiting to blog directories.
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This is very helpful, thanks. I never thought about keywords in the title of my blog before. Duh. Need to make some changes.
It is all part of the learning experience, Hope 2009 is prosperous and filled with joy:-)