Written on March 27, 2008 by admin
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This is actually an important key to your business and sometimes its success. I will explain why through-out this article.
Firstly when choosing a domain name you can use letters, numbers or hyphens however you can’t use hyphens at the beginning nor the end of your URL. You can use up to 67 characters.
Choosing a smaller domain name will help your website be more easily remembered for repeat vistors (who don’t bookmark your website but wish to return). Problem is most of the smaller domain names are taken these days.
Choosing a name that is relevant and rich in keywords for your product or service will enhance your chances of being found in the search engines. From my knowledge using hyphens can actually give you a better position for example, if you are selling horse shoes you might choose a domain name that looks like this: www.horse-shoes.com
Some of my websites are found by someone typing this as a keyword www.horse (example only) and that’s all they type. If you type that into google you’ll see that all domain names that start with www.horse are brought up first!
You may also want to consider buying the domain names such as if you wanted www.horse-shoes.com also buy www.horse-shoes.org and .biz and .us? This can help ensure that someone doesn’t take any business from you simply by buying your name and replacing the .org .net .us .biz etc.
If you have an already establish a company name and already well known then you would want to obviously choose that as your domain name.
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Written on March 27, 2008 by admin
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Purchasing your own domain is inexpensive and very effective for any kind of marketing campaign online or offline.
You should be able to purchase a domain and redirect it from the same place at no additional cost. Their is no reason to host it - and the KEY in redirecting is to redirect the URL as “cloaked” or “stealth.” In other words, when someone clicks on your domain, that is all you ever want them to see in the address bar of the browser… so they do not know you have redirected a domain to another site.
For example,
http://www.FreeSampleCard.com
is redirected to…
http://www.makeloyalcustomers.com/cards.php/lindamiller
Which do you think someone is more likely to remember or be more interested in clicking?
If you have a domain that attracts curiosity, you can post your domain name almost anywhere and you will attract people who are looking for what your domain describes.
Don’t let anyone tell you all the good domains are taken. Be creative - add a word to the front or back of what you want and you will find something good for you. I recommend keeping your domain names to 3 words that flow well together. Think of words that are also good key words for what you are offering so that when people search for what you are offering they will find your site.
Tip: When you are brainstorming ideas for domain names, type them into a Word document and capitalize the first letter of each word to get an idea of the “visual effect” - and when you use your domains in advertising, also capitalize the first letter of each word like I have done above. It will much easier for people to read.
I have been buying domains from the same place for years…
http://www.GetYourDomainHere.com
How’s that for an effective domain?
So, get out there and get your own domains! There are still plenty of domain names for everyone!
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