The Power of a Generic Domain Name

tell me about if u get one website how to optimize this

Ooh, takin' the plunge.

I'm proud of you Aaron.

Joe

Nitpick: shouldn't it be 'an SEO Book'?
I wouldn't say 'a SEO', but perhaps you Americans talking differently ;)

"a search engine optimizer" -- oh sorry "a search engine optimiser"

"an search engine optimi(z,s)er" seems not right.

but you are right about us 'Mericans talkin' funny ;)

Actually, I'm pretty sure Lea is right. Although I can't remember the exact rule to back up my claim here, I'm sure "an SEO book" is more correct than "a SEO book" :)

It is "an". If the following word starts with a vowel sound (eh-ss = S) then it's an "an". If not, like shoe , then it's an "a"

Funny how everyone picked up on the non-errors, but the actual spelling error (last word in the post - mame) was spelt wrong. ;) I think we get the drift, though, Aaron. ;)

Pete, don't want to offend you but it is not about a vowel sound, just vowel as a letter. So "a SEObook" is right.

AN apple
A book

I don't know if I can post links here, but there's a great page describing correct usage of A vs AN here: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/esliart.html

;-)

Sergey, also not wanting to offend but it actually IS about the vowel sound.

For example, it would be "an hour" not "a hour." In this case, it would indeed be "an SEO book" although I usually refer to it as "THE SEO book" ;)

To mess up all the rules, a long U gets an 'a'. Short U gets an 'an'.

An Umbrella
A Unicorn

We're in yer post hijackingz yer commentz!

All this grammar talk makes this an historic day for SEOBook.com--or is that *a* historic?

"An" sounds much better, than "A" - that's all that should matter :)

Grammmar Girl (Podcast) just did a piece on the rules for a vs. an. Check it out...
http://grammar.qdnow.com/2007/03/29/a-versus-an.aspx

It's 'an' S. But what I want to know is why nobody picked up on "I love my domain Mame"?

Or is there a joke I missed, entirely possible because I am BUSY OPTIMIZING MY WEBSITE! Hello!

Hello, I'm not the one who can speak about english as it's not my native language. So I want to thank you for the oportunity to also learn english grammar rules besides the SEO on this website :)
Yes and sorry for my mistakes, I'm pretty sure there are some. :)

Great reading on English Grammar .... I guess were decided on "An SEO Book" ;-), again I was waiting for the read on "I love my domain Name?"....

Aaron, you obviously have picked a brilliant name for your site (and ebook) from the beginning!

There is a huge industry emerging related to direct traffic which they explain as basically people typing in words in the url bar without going through a search engine.

This is a growing market and thus online real estate is increasing in value as we speak.

That is why SEO Book is a great domain name and that is why some people called domainers buy and sell domains for a living.

Perhaps Aaron can discuss this a bit more.

@ Seamus:

Ahh man, how did I miss the "mame" thing. I came back here to check on the rule - as I KNEW several readers would need to have their say - and man, did you just give me a good ol' fashioned snigger.
Here we are arguing about "a" and "an", yet miss something so obvious...