Setting Up A Directory: My Adventures

[kristian]

The Niche

So the niche will be movies. I feel there's still enough of a gap in the market to make entry feasible. The possibility of a niche movie site was brought up by Greenguy. I decided last night I will definitely setup a niche movie list, but not with this project. I'm worried about content and I know, by the time I'm ready to do a niche movie list, there will be more than enough movie free sites in every niche.

Domain Name Choice

Choosing a domain is always what slows up my projects. There are just so many questions. SEO questions alone number dozens and no one can ever agree on the right answers.

The agreement in seo is that the google algorithm places less emphasis on keywords and can, for some time now, parse keywords in domains. Branding and brandable domains are becoming the choice. Of course it would be nice to own keyword(dot)com or even keywordkeyword(dot)com but these usually aren't available. Far more important (correct me if I'm wrong) than keywords in domains are title tags, keyword density, and relevant backlinks, among other things.

In choosing my domain for this project, I'm looking for something brandable (therefore, easy to remember) and containing at least one of my keywords / phrases: movies, movie, porn movie, porn movies, free movies, free porn movies, so on.

The Domain

My top choice right now is MovieLinkList.com. I own the variations on this one and have owned it for 2 years come this August.

It has movie in the title which is ok and I'm thinking it's a fairly easy to remember, descriptive name. My only reservation is that it has nothing to denote it being adult in the name. However, this isn't really that important. TimsMovies(dot)com doesn't exactly scream hardcore mpegs.

The shortlisted domains are :

MrsMovies.com
MovieFreeSites.com
MoviePornSites.com
PornMovieEngine.com
PornMoviesEngine.com
PlayMyPorn.com
PornMovieDirectory.com
PornMoviesDirectory.com

Summary

Will go with a general movie link list, probably using the domain MovieLinkList.com.

Now why couldn't I have just written that??? lol

[kristian]

I'm going to post all my domain costs as soon as I finish buying them. I plan to use the domains I don't use for this project as feeders for the main site. One or two might even be fit for a future niche link list.

Here are the registrars I would recommend:

Name Cheap

This is where I've been registering most my domains lately. Only $8.88 per (dot)com and they have a solid rep.

Direct Nic

15 bucks per (dot)com but perhaps the most solid rep around.

I wont recommend this one to you :

Godaddy

A lot of webmaster on this forum have had major problems with this registrar. This is why I wont recommend them. Personally, I've never had a problem, but this doesn't mean one isn't around the corner. I have MovieLinkList.com with Godaddy and I'm considering transfering it to name cheap or direct nic. Advice appreciated.