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Rick Stonell

If you are wanting to get information out to the world, the best place to do it is on the internet. There are some great ways to increase your chances of a search engine picking up your name. One way is to have a few similar domain names that are almost the same, but not quite. Studies have shown that the larger search engines like google will draw similar domain names together. For instance, let's say that your name is Rick Stowell then you might want that domain name and one like Rick Stonell. I guess that since so many people misspell words on the internet, it would be very easy for someone to incorrectly type the name Rick Stonell instead. The only problem with this is if the website Rick Stonell is taken, then you may wind up directing traffic to another web site instead of yours.

You need to be really careful when deciding on a web domain name for a company or site that you want to start. When choosing, try not to pick the most commonly misspelled words, and if you do choose a name of this kind, be sure to purchase all web domains of the common misspellings of these words. For instance, if your website has the word equipment then be sure to also purchase a domain name of the most common misspelling of this word which is equiptment. If you are unsure about possible misspellings, just go online and type in the word, then go in and misspell it and you will probably find that someone online has misspelled that word in the same way you have.

To give you an idea these words are some of the most commonly misspelled words in the English language:

minuscule

millennium

embarrassment

occurrence

supersede

noticeable

harass

inoculate

Be sure to check out online for which words are most commonly misspelled (by the way misspelled is one of those words). I found lists of them, and some of them are words that you may not think of. Try to think of all possible ways that people could mistype your web domain name, and try to get those names too.

I any event, try your best to cover all your bases. You can't be sure whether someone might mess up when typing in your address, but if they do, you want to make sure they find your site no matter what.

posted by: Jen on Monday, April 07, 2008 @ 2:47 PM