How to Find a Domain Name Using Google Wonder Wheel

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I am sure that you have been reading a lot about Google’s brand new free tool called the “Google Wonder Wheel”. The fun thing is that there is actually not that much new about it except for the fact that where they were previously providing you with the information as text and links and now they are showing it to you in a visual way with “the wheel”.

There are a lot of people that find it hard to come up with domain names when starting out a new website so I had the idea that since the Wonder Wheel is great for doing initial keyword research as well as doing some site structuring why not try to use it for domain picking?

The Domain Wonder Wheel Selection Procedure

One way to use the wheel to find a free domain within your niche could go something like this:

Step 1 – Enter your main keyword and see what the wheel will present you with. I like using the example of “Rose Garden” so this is what it would look like:

Now obviously the domain rosegarden.com is taken but what about the other ones?

Step 2 – Next we’ll need to pick the keywords that would make sense to our niche. Since we’re planning a site about roses in a garden some of the phrases above will not be relevant. These are the ones I would add to the list to check:

• growing roses
• rose garden design
• rose garden florist
• planting a rose garden

Step 3 – Since four keywords may be too few to find something that is available I would click on one of them in the Wonder Wheel and see what shows up. We can pick the “rose garden design” and see what comes up:

Now we repeat the process and add the keywords that make sense to our list to check.

So now the total list could look like this:

• growing roses
• rose garden design
• rose garden florist
• planting a rose garden
• rose garden landscaping
• rose flower garden
• caring rose garden
• organic rose garden
• planting rose garden
• rose hedges

Step 4 – Next we’ll need to see whether or not these domains are taken. I always recommend that you go for a .com domain and only if everything else is taken go for something like a .net or .org. But in this case we want to find a .com domain.

Let’s head over to my favorite bulk domain checker:

http://www.domaintools.com/bulk-check/

This is what we get when entering all the keywords above without dashes between the words (click to see a larger picture):

So what we see here is that the following domains are free to register:

CaringRoseGarden.com
PlantingRoseGarden.com
RoseGardenLandscaping.com
RoseHedges.com

So now the question is what domain to choose?

Step 5 – You don’t need to do this step but since we all know that traffic is what counts I always like to check the search volume for the keywords. Entering the 4 keywords into Google’s Keyword Tool produces this result (click to see a larger picture):

From the list above you can see that (of the four) the one called RoseHedges.com would have the keyword with the most traffic (720 in April). But you will also notice that the top term is the singular version “rose hedge” (the domain RoseHedge.com is already taken but NOT used) and I’ll bet money on the fact that having RoseHedges.com will help you be able to rank very well for “rose hedge” as well as “rose hedges”.

But there is more…

Did you notice the little icon in the Bulk Check picture?

Here it is again (click to see a larger picture):

These small dots show you that the domain has previously been registered and that is a great additional benefit.

Because not only can you be lucky to already have links pointing to your new domain but you might also be lucky that Google will see this as an aged domain instead of a new domain and that might speed up your ability to rank.

And since you were going to pick that domain anyway then that is not a bad free gift to get is it?

Conclusion

There are a lot of different ways to come up with domain names and using the Wonder Wheel is just one of them but whatever works right?

I am pretty sure that I would not have thought about checking RoseHedges.com if I were to enter into the Rose Garden niche. Would you?

At the time of writing the domain is still free to register so if you want a new website it could be yours. As a little bonus here is someone that you could become an affiliate of that sells rose hedges: http://michiganbulb.com/article.asp?ai=282

To Your Success,
Mikael

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