Monday, November 8, 2010

Choosing a Domain Name for Your Website


In fact, domain name is the name of your website URL. Having an appropriate domain name is good for your online business. As you can know, domain name identify your website, products, and services. For example, www.hotmail.com identify that your website is about mail. The rank of website is essential for your Internet business because good rank make many consumers interesting your products. I will show how to choose a domain name that appropriate and inappropriate to your business.

Firstly, set domain name by using your band name. According to the website About.com(2010), it mention what is your products or services. This trick are popular in big company such as Nike, and Sony. Secondly, consider the length of your domain name(Posey, n.d.). There is something between short and long domain name. short domain name is easy to remember. In other hand, Long domain name is clear and easy to understand about what king of products that you want to sell. According to the text on the website About.com,“you can use up to 67 characters” (Posey, n.d.) Moreover, it seems to be crazy. Thirdly, using hyphens in domain name, it has both sides of advantage and disadvantage. Advantage is easy to distinguish. However, the disadvantage is people who open your website usually forget the hyphens. Fourthly, top level domains, every website has a domain name extension such as .net, .com, and .biz . In addition, .gov is government website. According to the text, almost of people want to use .com for their domain name.

Picture Reference

domainnameSEO. (n.d.). . Retrieved from http://www.websitemagazine.com/images/blog/domainnameSEO.gif

Text Reference

Posey, C. (n.d.). Choosing a domain name for your website. About.com. Retrieved November 17, 2010, from http://homebusiness.about.com/od/yourbusinesswebsite/a/choose_domain.htm

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