Essential Tips On Choosing Your Domain Name
Your domain name acts as your unique address on the internet. As the demand for domain names increases globally, your choice for a memorable domain name also decreases.
It is essential that your register your domain name immediately. A domain name that is available now may be taken up within a very short time.
Choose your domain name based on the following tips:
1. The Purpose Of Your Website
what content do you have in mind for your website. Is it could be your business name, your own name. You domain name could also be chosen to reflect your business, the products or services that you are going to market using your website.
In most cases your personal name may have already be taken. You may be choosing your domain name to create a blog or write information on a chosen topic.
My website is creating as a resource for people that are interested in creating a residual income that keeps on growing; therefore I choose the domain name: www.EvergrowingIncome.com
2. Keep It Short And Memorable
Keep your domain name short and easy to spell, you can also make it a common phrase that is easy to remember. I have another site that is based on personal development and positive thinking, I have registered: www.GrowYourThoughts.com
3. Make It Reflect The Scope Of Your Target Audience
If your business is global, it is advisible to choose a .com domain name. If it is specific to region or group, reflect this in your domain name.
I have another website that is targeted towards London’s Asian Community. I have registered the domain name: www.LondonAsianGuide.co.uk
It has the word London and Asian in the domain name. It is for the UK only therefore I have picked a .co.uk domain.
4. Make Sure That It Does NOT Have A Hidden Double Meaning!
Some domain names that people registered, may not be aware of the double meaning.
ExpertsExchange.com –> ExpertSexchange.com
WhoRepresents.com –> WhorePresents.com
TherapistFinder.com –> TheRapistFinder.com
PenIsland.net –> PenisLand.net
ChooseSpain.com –> ChoosesPain.com
GoTahoe.com –> GotAHoe.com
PenIsMightier.com –> PenisMightier.com
PowergenItalia.com –> PowerGenitalia.com
MoleStationNursery.com –> MolestationNursery.com
KeywordsExtractor.com –> KeywordSexTractor.com
BigAlsOnline.com –> BiGalsOnline.com
PotsOfArt.com –> PotsoFart.com
AlterScrap.com –> AltersCrap.com
ViaGrafix.com –> ViagraFix.com
This could be embarrassing for a reputable business or corporation. This can be easily fixed by placing a hyphen between the words.
Experts-Exchange.com –> ExpertSexchange.com
Who-Represents.com –> WhorePresents.com
Therapist-Finder.com –> TheRapistFinder.com
Pen-Island.net –> PenisLand.net
Choose-Spain.com –> ChoosesPain.com
Go-Tahoe.com –> GotAHoe.com
Pen-Is-Mightier.com –> PenisMightier.com
Powergen-Italia.com –> PowerGenitalia.com
Mole-Station-Nursery.com –> MolestationNursery.com
Keywords-Extractor.com –> KeywordSexTractor.com
Big-Als-Online.com –> BiGalsOnline.com
Pots-Of-Art.com –> PotsoFart.com
Alter-Scrap.com –> AltersCrap.com
Via-Grafix.com –> ViagraFix.com
If your purpose is to drive traffic to your site and it’s not your corporate site, this could act in your favour. It could generate a FREE viral marketing campaign for you. People will start passing out the name of your site in Articles (like this one!), email, blogs.
You could place a humorous sentence or two on the site and re-direct them to the Hyphenated version.
“If you are not looking for a ViagraFix, please visit our site: Via-Grafix”
5. Be Creative and Choose Wisely
Be creative until you find a domain name that is appropriate for the purpose you have in mind for your website. Most domain name registration sites have tools that will generate alternative variation of the domain name you want to register if it is already taken.
Choose your domain name wisely as you are going to do a lot of work on it once it becomes your piece of the Internet real estate.
6. Choose Different Top Level Extensions And Variation Of Your Domain Name
You can also choose to register different top level domain names… the most common being .com, .biz and .net
You can also redirect visitors to the website that you have created for your domain name for all the domain extension variations.
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