One question that I get asked a lot is how do you go about starting a brand  new website. Should you buy an old domain or should you buy a new domain that is exactly the brand that you want. my response if that if your budget allows I would do both. However if you are looking to go one way or another I would buy a an aged domain that has not been dropped and prferrably with page rank and and back links.

Once you acquire the site then you simply start to build content – relevant content as quickly as you can. If you add the content first and then add a few really good links the odds of you not showing for major results is very slim. In other words you should do very well without slipping into the proverbial sand box – the highly disputed but very real sandbox.

So where do you find the domains? The best to find them is through auction sites. I only like buying godaddy domains through auction. The other companies don’t do a good job with the transition and their fees can be very excessive. Dropday.com is one site that allows you to search through many different variables allowing you to get the domain that you want to get. You can search by domain provider, page rank, age and a few other criteria but mainly by keyword. If you were looking for a dental website you would be able to enter the keywords with the other parameters to find the perfect domain for you. Just make sure that the page rank is real and that the domain wasn’t a pointer to another site that had high pr. If you point one domain to another then it mimics that sites page rank. The easiest way to prevent this is to see how many backlinks a site has. If the site is a pr 5 but only has 10 yahoo back links then it is porbably not a pr 5. I hope that this helps!