Once again I am off the topic of music, but I have to rant a bit on this. As an Internet based publisher I am constantly aware of the fact that you have a higher chance of being successful if you have a domain name that shares the same keywords as the main focus of your site. For example, my site,
www.musicedmagic.com is all about music education topics and more specifically about band directing in general. I also went out and bought
www.musiceducationmagic.com and both domains point to the same site. Side note: if you are not doing this for your own site you NEED TO! If on the off chance you become a popular site you can bet that every porn site and low rent ads page dealer will be out trying to buy up the domains that sound similar to yours. For example, until recently www.whitehouse.COM was a porn site!
My pet peeve deals with the people that register a really useful domain name and then put up a sucky web site on it. Only slightly better worse than that are the people that buy a domain name and then put up a link farm on it. You have all seen these pages, the ones with the big bold copy of the domain name at the top of the page and under it just a bunch of links to OTHER pages that may or may not be what you need. Now don't get me wrong, the people that make those sites make a lot of money from them, but I personally think it is shameful.
The worst of all offenders in my opinion is the site owner with an incredibly high quality domain name that does NOTHING with it! There are dozens if not hundreds of sites out there with that problem and it drives a webmaster crazy to see those high quality names go to waste. Oh well... Enough ranting... Time to go write some more content.
