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Your
domain name
| by David Callan
Your
domain name is imperative to the success of your website, if anyone tells
you otherwise they're either lying or don't know what they're talking
about.
You
need a domain name if you're serious about being an online entity, it's
where you'll direct all your potential customers to. For them to become
customers you've to make a good first impression and having your own
domain name rather than some free geocities address that's long and
cumbersome will enable you to do this.
There
are lots of other benefits of having your own domain, here's just a few of
them.
A
domain name is your own unique identity and always will be as long has you
continue to use that name. Say for instance you hosted your free site with
geocities and you found that you needed a more advanced host because your
website was becoming successful. Visitors and links to your site would
know you by the long geocities URL and you'd have to start promoting your
new URL all over again. If you had your own domain name you could change
hosts as often as you like and people would still be able to find you
simply by typing in your domain name.
You
can promote your website instead of someone else's when you're sending
emails as your domain name will be in the email address, for example
admin@akamarketing.com is helping to promote akamarketing.com while
akamarketing@aol.com is helping to promote and brand AOL.com
Your
likely to have more traffic to your website with your own domain name
because more people will be returning as they can remember your address
and because many search directories such as Yahoo only index websites with
their own domain name.
Another
advantage of having your own domain name is that you can use custom error
pages to prevent people from leaving your site because of broken links and
other errors.
Domain
names are so cheap nowadays that there's no excuse for not having one. Now
that your ready to get yourself a domain name here's some pointers to help
you choose a good one.
Size
does matter
In
the case of domain names the smaller the better. Of course short domain
names are harder to find but if you can find one it has a number of
advantages such as, it's easier to brand, easier to remember and it's
harder to misspell.
Easy
to remember
Try
to get a name that's easy to remember and sounds good. General words are
best for this but since these are all gone at this stage you should look
for non general names or combinations of general names which rhyme and
sound good together. Take elephantdroppings.com for example that's an easy
to remember name.
Relate
to your business
If
you use keywords which are related to your business industry you will help
your search engine rankings. What's even better is if you can get your
actual business name or a name similar to your company name as your domain
name, this way all your off-line branding will pay off online as Internet
users should be able to guess your domain name from your business name.
Avoid
similarities
This
means you should avoid choosing domain names that already have similar
counterparts online, if you choose one of these people could end up on
your competitors site rather than yours because they got confused over the
two domain names.
.com
is best
You
should always aim for the .com version of a name, that's what most people
will go to after doing a search or after typing something directly into
their address bar, if you register .tv or .net or any of the other
available extensions and your competition has the .com version then you've
just lost a potential customer.
Domain
names for SALE by
The following list has the domain names available
for sale by Mansfield Designs & Hosting. Some of this domains have
been fully developed and are well established, a few others have
been established as promotional websites.
Pick
the domain you like from the available domain names above, send us your
offer to Mansfield
Designs & Hosting using the link on the e-mail envelope.
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