Your website name is the shortcut that your visitors will use to find your web site. Every web site has a numerical address that identifies it uniquely, but this address is, for most people, difficult to remember. Instead, we use a combination of letters and numbers to give our sites addresses that we can simply remember and talk about.
And choosing these names can be both exceedingly difficult to do and vital to get right! Here are some important pointers.
1 - Look For A Good Site Name
Your web site name not only acts as a shortcut to the web site, it also give a first impressions. freds-new-website may be available to register, but if you are wanting to give the impression of a high class, quality law firm, does the name match?
You may want to base the name about your trading name or you may want to base it around key search terms you are expecting your visitors to be searching for. But consider shrinking the name if it is very long, Haskayne Pet And Country Equestrian Centre may be a good name for one of my customers' shop, but as a web site name, it is too much to type in.
2 - Check For Other Directories Using The Name
At first it might seem useful to register a misspelling of a competitor's name in the hope of receiving visitors from their website, but the authorities who maintain domain names do not permit this on the whole. If your competitor finds out, they could demand that the name is transferred over to them.
And it is not just competitors. Finding and registering an unused extension of a Google address might also seem clever, but once again when they find out, they could reclaim the website name.
3 - Register The Website In Your Name
If you are registering the web site name yourself this should happen anyway, but if you have a website designer or another company registering the name for you, make sure that it is registered to your name and address. Loads of will try to register the site in their own name, but this can cause you many problems later on, such as if you try to move to a different designer. Do not pay their expenses in full until they have changed it to registered to you.
4 - Avoid Hyphens
Where budding, avoid hyphens in the name as most people will ignore them and type the name without them! This could mean traffic going to a different web site instead of yours and a waste of your offline marketing efforts!
5 - Think Of The Extensions
Should you by the .com generic name, or the .org? Or maybe a local name let's say .co.uk?
It is a big decision, but the answer can sometimes to be buy both. My rule of thumb is that if you are aiming at traffic just in your own country, by a local name. If you want to target the site internationally, then you need to look at the .com extensions.
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