24 tips in choosing the right domain name for your website
- First of all, always brainstorm with your friends and colleagues on the domain name that you wish to have. Collect all the names suggested before you book it
- Always go for .com domains. If you want target a country only then use the country level domain
- Your domain name should be short mainly of 2 words joined together
- Make use of your brand name + a keyword of your niche
- Make sure your domain name is brand oriented as brand domain are in the minds of users for a longer period of time
- You domain name should be unique. You audience should differentiate you from your competitors
- Make sure your domain name is easy to spell and pronounce, so that it remains in the minds of readers for a longer time
- You domain name should be easy to remember. You will get lot of direct traffic if people remember your domain name and type in your domain name correctly
- You domain name should describe your business and should always be relevant to your business.
- Avoid underscrolls and hypens. But you can make use of hypens in the last scenario but never use underscrolls
- Avoid the use of doubled letters - eg kidsspain.com. The word s is doubled used. Typo erros can occur and can result in lost of some traffic
- You can also created micro pages using location names in the domain urls
- Avoid numbers in your domain name. use it only if it is related to your brand.
- To protect your domain names you need book various domain extension so that other competitor should not get advantage of your brand name - abc.com. abc.net. abc.org all should be booked
- You can also purchase common misspelling domains for your domain names on the safer side
- Make sure the domain name you use is not trademarked or copyrighted by other company, otherwise it may lead to legal cases
- Look for domain names that is availbale across all social networks. Sometimes you may get a domain name from domain registrar for your website but these may namesnot be available on important social networks like facebook, twitter instagram, pinterest etc
- Make sure that the domain name you want is not blacklisted or penalized. Do a “site:” search in search engine. If the domain existed before, and “site:” search returns nothing, it’s a good sign that that domain has been removed from Google’s index. You can also make sue of tools like ; https://archive.org/web/ and http://research.domaintools.com/research/whois-history/ for your research purpose.
- Make use of tools like - https://justdropped.com/ as it helps to find domains that are expired
- Check out various domain registrars and select the providers with the best price
- Avoid the tactic of exact match domain as they are no longer supported by search engines for ranking purpose
- If you are ecommerce site than definitely go for the https version i.e. secured version
- If you are not getting the domain of your choice , trying appending with suffix and prefixs
- One tip never to forget : always purchase the domain name in your own name for the best security measures
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