Domain Names

Important information for you BEFORE you buy.

Buying a domain name is the most fundamental choice your online business will undertake.

Here we would like to help you make that all important decision by learning from our expertise in the domain name business.

Your choice of name can bring you 1000's more visitors without doing a thing... ''really?'' I hear you say, let us show you how.

Domain name considerations before choice.

• The domain name needs to include the most popular search words.

• If for instance you have a website that sells website hosting, then you would need to find the most popular searches for that kind of market. Once you have found those words, you need to arrange them into some sort of priority. We found out that hosting had only 1000 visitors per month compared to 55000 for web hosting so an example of a first domain name would be (insert your own choice here)-web-hosting. These days it is not that nessesary to have the name hyphenated as this can cause problems in your loyal customers having difficulty finding you, however it is an extra bonus when search engines are trying to find what the browser wants.

• A .com is a higher level domain name (TLD = top level domain), it doesnt mean that much these days but it does make it look more professional as usually its one of the most expensive, it shows you have thought out your choice.

• Should you be only trading in your OWN country, then it is advisable to purchase a domain with your own country extension on it i.e. co.uk for United Kingdom. Certain search engines allow browsers to search for listings in their own country, if you only had a .com then it would only show up in world wide search and not as a country listing.

• It must also be short and precise as to enable your advertising efforts of your domain name to be remembered.

• This would be a shortened or easy to remember name without any icons such as easyhost. However it is very difficult to find one or two word domain names through shear volume of influx of new websites. In your control panel whilst hosted, you can set a redirect on an easy to remember domain name that will take any visitor automatically to (insert your own choice here)-web-hosting, or a link from this site to your own site. Imagine a TV advert with (insert your own choice here)-web-hosting in it, you think in those few seconds a potential customer has time to write it down? No. Remember KISS ! (Keep It Short and Simple)