Have you ever wondered what the best ways are to get a high-traffic domain. It’s not quite as costly or as difficult as you may think. Here are some tips to get you started.

1. Get a GoDaddy account. The domains you can get from GoDaddy are inexpensive, yet you can get some really interesting and exciting names. I have owned the domains getzooks.me and iamthegenie.com in the past. These were for Getzooks and My Shopping Genie. Both these domains allowed me to get some reasonable traffic, but more than that – they were interesting ones that people were able to get to easily and people found them easy to remember.

2. Have you ever wondered how many people get a domain name wrong. Think about names like Tahoo or Yshoo or some other deritive of Yahoo. Or, Google could be Hoogle, Goojle or something else like that. You really need to use your imagination here, but there’s top dollar to be had from typing errors.

Then, go back to GoDaddy and attempt to enter one of these names you have found. The system will give you similar domains if the one you have is taken. So, if.com is taken, you may be able to have.net or.org.uk (if you’re British).

A good thing to do here is to think of the industry your site is in. If you are an online auction think of the domain of ebay and think how people may get that wrong. If you are a dating agency, think of how you can get a misspelt eharmony or e-harmony. If your site is a social network showing video, think of another possibility for the word YouTube – or if it’s more of a viral social networking site, try for something on the word Facebook.

3. Think of something funky. I found an awesome blog yesterday called BlindSkunk. The person who owned that was obviously an expert in both music creation and graphic animation. You can find Blind Skunk in the “Some Interesting Blogs” list on my blog. You will find my blog address at the bottom of this article. It’s a really new blog and Blind Skunk is my first blog on that list. A friend of mine had something called Funky Monkey or something like that. People love wierd and strange domains and it’s interesting to see how many people will check these names out for themselves.

4. Think of something blatantly obvious. If you are a dating agency, try datingagency.com or something else like that. If you are a solicitor, try solicitor.net. If these aren’t available, try goodsolicitor or friendlysolicitor – or even iamasolicitor.com. There are a lot of options available.

If you want more traffic, these tips will come in helpful. You can choose wierd and strange, blatantly obvious or ones with a typing error or two, but sit down first. Do a brainstorm. Find all the best ideas that you possibly can and then decide for yourself what you like best, what you think will work best and what is best for the budget that you have