Publishing your website and picking up the domain name
Before going online with your new website. Make sure you have the right name for it. Right domain name is a crucial part of search engine optimizations, and with these simple tips you can't go wrong:
Good domain name is a keyword rich
Domain name should contain at least few keywords related to your website/product/business. Just make sure that the keywords and the domain name makes sense.
My blog has two keywords: Money and SEO + It also contains a sentence that someone would type in to Google "Money with SEO". It's short, it's simple, and makes whole lotta sense. Very effective. Of course the word "with" itself is not a very effective, but try "money with" or "with SEO" and your possibilities are endless. Some keywords get a higher value when used in sentence.
Make it easy to remember
Very long website name can be descriptive, but also going to be very painful to remember. If you do offline marketing, you want to keep your domain name short, simple and easy to remember. If you are doing your business mostly on Internet (no offline marking at all), and most of your visitors come from search engines. You can keep the domain name little longer. Good rule with everything is "K.I.S.S" (Keep It Simple, Stupid).
What domain name extension?
I would go with .com if the site is International (English), if you are doing local business (foreign countries), use country extension like .co.uk, fr, fi....etc. You are getting much more attention from search engines that way. Also remember to use a
meta language tag to get better local visibility.
Doman Registration Time
How long registration period you would choose? I'd say at least 2 years. Some search engines give more value to domains that will be around for a longer period of time. It's also cheaper to buy domain & hosting for a longer time. Saving money and time is always a good thing.
Before going online with your new website
Very important last questions: Would you click your own website address?
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