The most important advice that I can give you about choosing your domain name is don’t try to be catchy or clever.  Keep it simple and make it something easy for your customers to remember.  A name that uses your primary company name or an associated word will get more attention in general and will be taken more seriously by your prospective customer.

You will be ranked higher by the search engines if you use keywords associated with your business or theme.  For example; if you had a business named: Antique Musical Instruments then antiquemusicalinstruments.com may be more effective than just instruments.com for those with a primary goal of selling antique musical instruments.  Just try to make it pertinent to what you are doing.

Blogging is a way to express personal thoughts, feelings or business ideas and recommendations.  The fact is, blogging is now a viable source of information on the internet.  While most bloggers have their own web site and domain name, all  you need is an account with a blog provider.  Many providers offer free space on their sites. Listed below are a couple sites that offer FREE space but have limitations compared to that of having your own domain and site hosting which is better left for another subject:

SEO (Search engine Optimization) is mysterious.  That’s why it is so hard to understand.  Most articles written about SEO makes the assumption that everyone knows what they are talking about.  Wrong!  Most people don’t have a clue.  So here’s my simple explanation that has not been downloaded from an IT brain.