Why I Choose My Domain

by Jake O'Callaghan

It seems to me that many people are interested about my domain name. Therefore, I have made a post so as to clear up any questions and criticisms the readers of this blog have had.

I would also like to thank my readers for their criticism. I greatly appreciate all the feedback, and am honored to be helped by all of you.

Reasons I choose a .me

To trick you. Most of the people who come to this blog, if not all are webmasters. Personally, whenever I get to a new website or blog I always look at the domain. I analyze it to see if why they picked it and if I could get an idea off of it. I also analyze the domain extension.

I assume that many of you also look at the domain name. I have never seen a .me before. Therefore, I would conclude that if I saw a .me on a website than I would go "Wow a .me. So having a .me rather than a .com actually could help more people to remember my URL. Muhahahahah

.me is the one of the fastest growing domain extensions. .me will continue to grow and prosper.

This was originally a personal blog. The original idea for this blog was to blog about the problems I faced during my Web Journey and other things about it. I still do that somewhat, but I have now changed the concept.

It was available. Most of the .com names have been taken. Anyone can still get a good .me

Reasons for Web Journey

Web Journey is a short domain. Domain experts will always tell you the shorter the better.
Web Journey.com went for some good money. It’s always good to know that people would pay good money for a domain even if I didn’t get the .com.
Web Journey is easy to remember.
Web Journey has one of my targeted keywords in it.

Anyways, just a small post to let you in on my thought process before you label me as a web noob. (well I am in some ways)

Article by Jake O'Callaghan

I'm Jake, a 14 year-old webmaster, blogger, and freelance writer. My top goal is to help people succeed on the web and get away from their boring day jobs.

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1 Shoutbox (6 comments) August 7, 2009 at 6:23 am: Likewise, want to ask though what plugin are you using for the poll? I tested some wp plugins and they doesn’t seems to be compatible with the latest wp version.

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Jake O'Callaghan (105 comments) Reply:
August 9th, 2009 at 8:10 am
I use WP Poll.

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2 Shoutbox (6 comments) July 31, 2009 at 3:32 am: Many inbound links is the first and most important factor I guess. Also as your site grows people will start to link to it. Same happens with me. Cheers

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admin (284 comments) Reply:
August 1st, 2009 at 8:12 am
Cool, I’m glad you are witnessing success. Good luck!

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3 Shoutbox (6 comments) July 30, 2009 at 4:21 pm: admin: Thanks, how is your .ws doing.Now that’s a unique extension. (:Domain extensions do not affect search engine placement at all.The only thing that you lose if you lose if type in traffic with an extension other than .com.

Thats true. Being a non lover of .com and a natural SEOlist I don’t really care about the extension. And it does adds to the uniqueness.

p/s- the site is doing pretty well and ranking for the first page for the main keyword target. We get around 10k per day and the load on my hosting sucks.lol..
p/s2- About the smiley here are some helpful links
http://www.blogsdna.com/914/top-10-best-wordpress-smilies-plugins-for-your-blog.htm
http://blogote.com/2008/wordpress/six-wordpress-smiley-plugins-for-comment-and-blog-post.html

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admin (284 comments) Reply:
July 30th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Cool, how did you optimize for that keyword? Thanks for the links!

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4 Shoutbox (6 comments) July 25, 2009 at 9:39 am: Pretty unique domain there Jake. Any extension does not really have a sever impact on the site. Its just that .com is something that people (I mean normal people) has always been used to so they receives more typeins than other extension like .net /.org and .me goes way back (Lol.. no hard feelings k) Anyway good to see that your blog ranks pretty well on SE eventhough using .me . I believe with proper SEO any blog can rank well without needing to rely on .com only. Your idea of being unique is a cool one.
GL
WPT

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admin (284 comments) Reply:
July 25th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Thanks, how is your .ws doing. Now that’s a unique extension. (:

Domain extensions do not affect search engine placement at all. The only thing that you lose if you lose if type in traffic with an extension other than .com.

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5 Alex | Asnio.com (9 comments) June 12, 2009 at 5:52 pm: WebJourney is totally brandable, it would have been unreasonable to think a .com or .net version would be available IMO.

The fact that you are trying to make a webmasters blog on a domain other than a more recognized one like .com or .net is an awesome step to branding yourself and being a little more unique.

Do you know if there are any SEO differences between the different extensions?
Alex | Asnio.com´s last blog ..Maximize Your Earnings Through the Thesis Affiliate Program

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admin (284 comments) Reply:
June 13th, 2009 at 9:35 am
Yea, I love the name. When I knew it was available I had to bounce on it. I have big plans to buy .com and .net too.

I’m sure that there is no Seo difference between domains that have no specifications for buying like: .com, .net, .org, .info, .me, and others. However, domains such as .edu or .gov may have Seo benefits. I don’t know for sure though; I will make sure to look into that.

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6 George Serradinho (15 comments) June 12, 2009 at 12:38 pm: I have to be honest with you. Your site is the first site I have come across using the .me

My site is a .com but it’s my surname which makes it unique (serradinho.com)
George Serradinho´s last blog ..WordPress 2.8 Available for Download

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admin (284 comments) Reply:
June 13th, 2009 at 9:03 am
Yep but being unique has it’s advantages.

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7 elmot (4 comments) June 9, 2009 at 7:08 pm: this is actually only now that i have come across a personal blog that uses .me! like the domain too!

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admin (284 comments) Reply:
June 10th, 2009 at 9:06 am
Thanks, the domain is very cool. It could be worth some cash some day too.

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8 Melvin (10 comments) June 8, 2009 at 7:33 am: the domain name of yours is really cool. +1 for .me extension

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admin (284 comments) Reply:
June 8th, 2009 at 8:23 am
Thanks a lot. It makes me feel smart when people like the domain.

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9 Kiran (31 comments) June 7, 2009 at 4:26 am: Why do u think that .me extension will be a great sucess because od STATS or any other particular reason

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admin (284 comments) Reply:
June 7th, 2009 at 7:19 am
It had the biggest growth of any extension.

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10 Kiran (31 comments) June 6, 2009 at 9:46 am: might be u should have tried using some other tactics as already mentioned in other comment

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admin (284 comments) Reply:
June 6th, 2009 at 11:47 am
Yea, I think I should have.

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11 Deneil Merritt (3 comments) June 4, 2009 at 6:35 pm: Well having a .me does make you stand out as a blogger. Nice well thought out plan.

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admin (284 comments) Reply:
June 5th, 2009 at 7:58 am
Thank you. When you think about it it really does make me a stand out blogger in some ways. Thanks for the insight.

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12 S.Pradeep Kumar (31 comments) June 3, 2009 at 6:33 am: HellBound Bloggers.

How this sounds Jake ?

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admin (284 comments) Reply:
June 3rd, 2009 at 7:57 am
You mean your post? Sounds cool

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Simon | Teenius (47 comments) Reply:
June 3rd, 2009 at 9:31 am
I think he means his domain name lol

Simon | Teenius’s last blog post..Blog Design Series: Interview With Gaya Kessler

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admin (284 comments) Reply:
June 3rd, 2009 at 10:26 am
Oh I didn’t see Hellbound Bloggers there. Lol. I like the name. It is unique an memorable.

S.Pradeep Kumar (31 comments) Reply:
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:25 pm
@ Jake : Thanks for the compliment !

@ Simon : Thanks for that !

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admin (284 comments) Reply:
June 4th, 2009 at 7:39 am
Your Welcome
13 Harish | Blogging Kid (3 comments) June 2, 2009 at 6:39 am: .me really denotes some thing personal. If this is a personal blog then you have done the right choice

Harish | Blogging Kid’s last blog post..List Building – Why And How ?

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admin (284 comments) Reply:
June 2nd, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Yea, it used to be a personal blog. I’m hoping to buy a the .net of webjourney or .com

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14 Simon | Teenius (47 comments) June 1, 2009 at 9:20 am: Cool little post there, Jake

Not meaning to sound patronising, but well done for actually putting thought in to your domain. I find a lot of people have stopped doing that…

Simon | Teenius’s last blog post..Using Internet Forums For Marketing

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admin (284 comments) Reply:
June 1st, 2009 at 9:43 am
Thanks, I find that putting in thought on your domain really helps to the success of your website.

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