Initial Domain name Appraisal Criteria

- Domain:
- TLD: com/net/org/…
- Length:
- Domain contains hyphens: Yes/No
- Domain contains any digits: Yes/No

Adjusted for word count of N (N= number of words in Domain):

Total internet occurrence value :
Total internet market value :
Search frequency value :
Proper Name Value :

Appraisal Analysis and Explanation

Initial Valuation Criteria

NameBoy believes the TLD (top level domain) of a domain name is very important. The TLD determines the memorability of the domain, and better TLDs convey a more professional and experienced business. COM, NET, and ORG are currently the most credible and well known TLDs. The familiarity and credibility of newer TLDs will likely increase with time. A TLD of .COM is very valuable.

The number of characters in a domain affects the value of that domain. Shorter domain names are more valuable. The fewer characters a name contains, the easier it is to type and remember. Your name is rather long (more than fifteen characters long).This may detract from the value of the name.

Hyphens generally detract from the value of a domain. Your name contains no hyphens, which increases the value of your domain.

Digits in a domain name, as in horses4sale.com, decrease the value of a domain. Your name contains no digits, which increases the value of your domain.

Market Based Appraisal Criteria

The number of words in a domain affects the value of that domain. Names with fewer words are considered to be more memorable, and therefore more valuable. Your name is three English words. This is less valuable than one or two.

Appraisal companies uses major search engines to determine how much content exists on the Internet with your keywords. The Internet frequency of these words is a good way of determining the current buyers market for individual terms and the level of industry-specific activity. This element of your appraisal score is very time sensitive, the popularity of a given term may fluctuate often as the market changes and new fields grow. Your domain contains keywords that produce a very large number of search results. This increases the value of your domain.

Appraisal companies uses an index of the search value of your keywords to determine the value of your domain in a sellers and advertising market. Your domain contains keywords that have some search value. This adds to the value of your domain.

Domain search frequency allows us to rate the words we find in your domain against our own proprietary list of searches. This is a very good indication of whats hot in the industry right now. Keywords in your domain name are occasionally searched for on search engines, which adds to the value of your domain name.

Your name contains one or more proper names. Appraisal companies uses internet market value and frequency tables to estimate demand for a particular proper name and adjusts your appraisal accordingly.

How would you like to have a column on the left side of your Myspace profile in which you could place anything you like? Even better, what if this column was never covered when your viewer’s browser window is smaller than the Myspace layout “grid”? Well the solution is much simpler than you might think, and I am going to give it to you right now. I’m not going in depth into the workings of CSS or the Myspace structure. There are a lot of great CSS tutorial sites out there to learn the deeper and more complex aspects of modifying your Myspace layout and Myspace background. Just type Myspace tutorials into Google. Here, I am just going to give you the code and brief explanations of what it does.

First, just to make sure you understand what I am speaking of, visit my Myspace layout at my Myspace profile sbccjohn (I would recommend opening a new tab/window to have available while looking at the code below). Notice the grey box in the upper left corner (I left it plain so it would stand out). Now make your browser window smaller using the resize corner and notice how the banner ad and Myspace layout table stops when it gets near the box. I’ll show you why and how it does this.

Here is the Myspace modification code that actually builds the box seen in the sidebar. Place this CSS code wherever you put your own modification code. I prefer the top of the “About Me” edit box:

<div style=”position:absolute”>
float:left;
top:15px;
left:7px;
width:150px;
height:400px;
border:solid 1px black;
padding:0;
margin:0;
background-color:EEEEEE;”>

You can put whatever your want here.
Even aligned images:
<div style=”text-align:center”>
<img src=”url to image” />
<div>

</div>

There is only one line of code needed to keep the sidebar from being covered by the rest of the Myspace layout, it’s in bold below. If you already have CSS modifications using the ‘body’ tag you just need to add that line to the current code. Otherwise you can add the entire style block below to the div code listed above; just be careful not to place it inside another style block. Here is the code:

<style>
body {
margin-left:155px;
}
</style>

That’s all you need to build the sidebar for your Myspace layout.

The first block of code tells the browser to create a block of space, 15 pixels from the top and 7 pixels from the left, 150 pixels wide and 400 pixels high, with a 1 pixel border that is black and solid, and to not put any space between the edge and inside content (padding) or around the outside (margin), and make the background color grey.

The second block of code tells the browser to keep the entire Myspace layout at least 155 pixels from the left. It’s important to note the relationship between the margin-left in this block of code and the width in the previous code. You need to keep margin-left larger than width or the Myspace layout might cover your sidebar in smaller browser windows.

Now you can explore with different combinations of colors, widths, heights, borders and position. For example you can have the sidebar start lower by changing top to 100px. You can even add a background image using the same methods you add a Myspace background image. Enjoy the new layout!

On the Internet, various webmasters exchange their links for free to generate link popularity as well as targeted traffic on their sites. This exchange of links is called reciprocal linking and it an important tool for webmasters to gain the targeted traffic on their websites. If you are also serious to build up a strong Internet presence, start making requests for reciprocal links. But if you think you dont know much about reciprocal linking and want to learn how to request a reciprocal link, read this article.

First of all you must understand that you can attain much-desired link popularity with the help of quality reciprocal links. In fact for a long-term Internet presence, a strong reciprocal linking is needed to be built by you. Building reciprocal links is a strategy to be devised carefully. And for the purpose, a number of links and quality of the links has to be good enough to make them search engine friendly.

The search engines are capable of distinguishing between the right links and the useless ones. You cannot fool them by linking to all kind of websites. If you are a travel website, do not link to a baby care website. The link will be considered as useless in this case. Do not send a link request to any such website that is not complimentary to your business. Send the link requests to the targeted links websites only. When you make a reciprocal link with a complimentary business website, indexing of links by both of you will readily benefit both the parties.

To request a reciprocal link, first you have to find out the websites with a good page rank. You can get a list of the websites having good page ranks by making a record of their ranking by major search engines. Type the keyword describing the theme of your website. Press enter and wait for the results to appear. The websites with a good page rank should be your target for the link request. Once you have the list of high ranking websites, you can send the request to them in a humble manner. Post an email containing details of your website. The email should also contain the name of the website owner, URL of the website, the theme of your website and email address of the website owner.

How to request a reciprocal link is necessary to be understood for getting correct reciprocal links. You can easily send a link request to the website by sighting its articles on any ezine. Yes, the articles are a great way for link building on the Internet A number of ezines and forums publish articles that are a good source of reciprocal links.

Another important source to request a reciprocal links is the web directories. You have specialized reciprocal linking websites that are available for reciprocal link building with your website. The directories are able to give you the exact websites as the links are divided under certain categories. If you are owner of a sports website, you can enter a search for other sports websites links on the directory. You will be having a huge variety of websites that are willing to link back to you. Simply add a link on your website and send a link request to the websites mentioned in the directory.

To request a reciprocal link, make sure the website provides relevant information related to your website on its indexed link. If the website does not have a good page rank but has relevant information, you can send a reciprocal link request to that website as well.

Worried for your Website Domain Name? Then not to worry!! Our complete guide will illustrate you the most perfect steps to choose domain name. But before doing so it’s very essential to understand what domain name stand for!

Just as a person requires a name to hold a unique identity in this world, the same way website too needs a unique name to hold an identity in the form of domain name, so that it can be easily and efficiently bulletined.

Here, a domain name stands for the name given to our website that makes it easier for the visitor to locate the pool of data we want to show to the world. There is wide range of domain names floating in the world of web, but the best four are .com, .net, .info and .org. Besides, those the rests are .co.uk, .org.uk, .plc.uk, .com.au, .me.uk, .ltd.uk, .biz, .in, .name etc.

The domain name for a web site should be enduring and comfortably remembered by anyone. If web sites keep its domain name altering frequently, it becomes difficult for the visitors to remember and relocate it. Also, it is not easy for a visitor to remember a domain name that is not easily spoken in words. Thus, there are few important items to be considered while choosing a permanent domain name and that can rank your website perfectly.

Apply English words- One should apply simple and business focused keywords for domain name. If possible use a combination of English words for your domain name, like webguide.com, and try to keep the total domain from becoming too long.

Address a unique name for your domain- If you will create a unique name like zap or vexat you will have a greater chance of getting a shorter domain name. And everyone can easily remember even that domain name.

Domain Extensions- There are many domain suffixes to choose from for a given name, i.e. .com, .net, .org, .info, .us etc. Try to choose the best extension.

Generic Name- It is very important to note, that your domain name should match to your brand name or product name. The very name that you use to advertise your product is the name that you will want for your domain, because that is the first thing that people will try in their browser. It is also the easiest thing for them to remember, and whatever that is easily remembered, will be more likely to be tried out than the obscure domain name.

Hyphenated Names – Domains containing hyphens are difficult to remember, spell and pronounce. So, if you register a domain containing hyphens, make sure that you also register the corresponding domain without the hyphens. Once you do that, you can simply redirect visitors from the domain without the hyphens to the domain with the hyphens.

Plurals- Very often a domain name will be free in the plural but not in the singular form. It’s a personal choice, but if your preferred choice of domain name is not available you might be stuck.

Thus, by applying aforesaid segments we can build a permanent and a faultless domain name with equal ease and perfection. As our domain name can take us to the top of the business scenario.

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Many B2B companies are wondering how they can make their web presence much more valuable to their clients. Good marketers know that the days of the web site as online brochure are gone for good. So how does one go about creating a valuable user experience? One tactic is to make the site “sticky” meaning users come back to your site more often and stay longer.

An essential part of creating a sticky site is understanding one’s target audience. Before you start thinking about what kind of content or features might be valuable to your users, start with a thorough Target Audience Analysis. An effective Target Audience Analysis includes first determining who the audiences are. They might be clients, the press, or employees of the company, or even all three. Once those audiences are identified, you need to understand their motivations. Why are certain target audiences on your site? What are their motivations? And most importantly how will you fulfill their needs? What about creating new needs your audiences didn’t even know they had? During this process, eliminate the guesswork and go straight to your clients and ask them what they want to see.

So now that you understand their motivations, how are you going to fulfill them in the most effective manner? Take for example an engineering company whose clients want technical white papers. Let’s say this is the user’s top motivation for being on your site. You’ll want to ensure that these engineers can get to their white papers as easily as possible. Do this by putting links directly on the homepage, create many ways for users to get to the content with cross links. Develop strong calls-to-action. And make sure that your engineers can get to that content with only one click. In other words, identify key user paths.

Many companies make the mistake of using their sites to brag about themselves. One of our current clients was convinced that they needed an extensive About Us section with Mission, Values, Executive Summary, a Timeline of the company, Executive Bios, and Accomplishments. What user outside of an investor is really going to read all of that?

Rather, take the time and offer information that is priceless to your customers and that really gets them engaged. You can do this by offering white papers, webinars, video tutorials, forums, RSS Feeds, etc. Allow them to interact with you. Your clients will thank you by becoming lifelong clients.