Topic is result of a discussion in the shoutbox about choosing a domain and lots of people not understanding how keywords work.
When picking keywords don't use 1337 or piratez talk. Don't just pick keywords that you think explain your site and sound cool. You have to pick keywords that explain your site but will also return in searches.
First if you've never used this site then you've never researched a keyword
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
eg. "scriptz" returns 2900 global searches. That means that it's searched about 2900 times in Google every month.Now even if you were to rank number one for this keyword you'd probably only get about 1500 hits a month for it.
now let's look at "scripts". That gets about 2,740,000 searches a month. Now even if you rank 10 for a keyword like that you'll get hundreds of thousands of hits.
Anyway that's a bit broad but shows the difference when you use correct spelling.
Let's look in more detail at possible domains.
script tips
This phrase is searched 2400 times a month. That's almost nothing and what's worse is it has a relatively high competition which means it would be difficult to reach the first position.
script help
this is slightly better. It has 8100 global monthly searches and has slightly less competition.
script tutorial
now we're getting someplace. This has low competition which suggests it would be relatively easy to reach the number one position while also having 74,000 global monthly searches. If you were to rank number one for this search term you'd get a large amount of organic traffic from it.
I hope these examples show you how keyword selection works and helps you when chosing keywords to target.
When picking keywords don't use 1337 or piratez talk. Don't just pick keywords that you think explain your site and sound cool. You have to pick keywords that explain your site but will also return in searches.
First if you've never used this site then you've never researched a keyword
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
eg. "scriptz" returns 2900 global searches. That means that it's searched about 2900 times in Google every month.Now even if you were to rank number one for this keyword you'd probably only get about 1500 hits a month for it.
now let's look at "scripts". That gets about 2,740,000 searches a month. Now even if you rank 10 for a keyword like that you'll get hundreds of thousands of hits.
Anyway that's a bit broad but shows the difference when you use correct spelling.
Let's look in more detail at possible domains.
script tips
This phrase is searched 2400 times a month. That's almost nothing and what's worse is it has a relatively high competition which means it would be difficult to reach the first position.
script help
this is slightly better. It has 8100 global monthly searches and has slightly less competition.
script tutorial
now we're getting someplace. This has low competition which suggests it would be relatively easy to reach the number one position while also having 74,000 global monthly searches. If you were to rank number one for this search term you'd get a large amount of organic traffic from it.
I hope these examples show you how keyword selection works and helps you when chosing keywords to target.