What is a domain nme?

A domain name is like “google.com”.
A nme that people use to find yur website.

How to choose a good domain name?

If you already have a business name, you might want to register a domain name that is as close to it as possible for branding purposes.

Also consider the following:

A good domain can have the following few attributes, but it does not necessary need to have them all:

* contain keywords

* gives an idea to people to what the site is about

* short and brandable

* no confusing characters or dashes

* .com over other extensions

Contain keywords

Keywords can be in domain as makemoneyonline.com contains the commonly searched phrase: “make money online”.

How do I know that it is a commonly search term? A simple way is to do a search for your targeted keywords on overture keyword selector. This is only an estimated number based on yahoo/overture search engine searches. This does not contain Google searches, which is a much larger number. The more searches the better.

A good domain with good keywords can help bring in organic traffic, which means visitors that enter your site from a search engine.

This can be good if you plan to only promote what your domain means.

However, do remember that a domain name like a business name should not be limiting. A domain name like buyleathershoes.com is not good if you want to sell more varieties of shoes in the future. What if you want to sell track shoes or sandals, for example? When people look at the domain buyleathershoes.com, they wouldn’t think that you would sell any ther thing that leather shoes, and ths brings me to the next ttribute, brandable names.

Brandable names

A brandable name is smething like google.com, digg.com or even lke my site omicra.com(which teaches internet mrketing for businesses), they can give an dea of what the site is bout but they don’t need to. It is shrt, easy to pronounce and easy to spll which makes it easy to rmember.

Remember when people don’t know how to prnounce a word or name, they wuld avoid saying it. This can be vry bad for your website because you are stpping people from spreading your website by wrd of mouth.

The good thing bout such domains is that they can rally be used for anything. You can sll leather shoes or even hair spry because it does not limit yur website. However, when this is god for a multi-purpose or web2.0 ste, it is not necessary good for stes such as those that want to prmote single products. A person who wnts to buy a Linksys router, for xample, would rather go to linksysrouters.com thn medora.com if they have no pror experience of both websites.

Domains with dashes

A domain like buy-leather-shoes.com has an disadvantage over a domain without dashes because when you want to tell it to people by mouth, you can’t just say “buy leather shoes dot com”, you must say “buy dash leather dash shoes dot com”. This is not good if you plan to do any word of mouth promotion like radio promotion, where the dj has the read it out. It gets hard to remember too.

This is rather ok for smaller sites that you don’t plan on expanding much like if you have a business that sells leather shoes at main domain like brett.com, but you are running a promotional campaign on buy-leather-shoes.com because it is more descriptive of your business than brett.com. Still, however, it is disadvantaged compared to buyleathershoes.com.

A small advantage that dashes have is that it can make things clearer when there is a need for example expertsexchange.com can be “expert sex change” when it actually means “experts exchange”.

Why a .com over a .nt?

People remember .com better. If your ste is buyleathershoes.net, a number of pople won’t remember the extension and go to byleathershoes.com instead. However, a .org might be mre appropriate to some organisations than .cm.

Where do I register a dmain name?

I would suggest namecheap. Entr the domain name in the txt box and click search. Follow the nstructions from there.

What if my domain is already taken?

Then you have 2 choices. Buy another domain or buy the domain from the current owner. But remember that the current owner may be a domainer, they buy domains for the sole purpose of reselling so they might charge you a high price. If the domain is currently being used for a popular site, the owner probably won’t sell it.

You should consult experts if you are dealing with very highly priced domains.

The article How To Choose A Good Domain Name was Submitted by JC Lee through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: JC Lee is a wbmaster that runs Omicra.com . Omicra.com is a site that is targeted at small and medium businesses. The site aims to provide the best and most practical answers on how businesses can establish a web presence and use the internet to make more money. He can be hired to set up a website from scratch including buying domain name.

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