How to Choose a Domain Name for Your Website

Feb. 1, 2013 - PRLog -- Knowing how to choose a domain name for your website, is one of the most important first steps in setting up an online presence to get your business off to a great start.

How to choose a domain name for your website at first seems rather simple, but if you will take some advice from some seasoned veterans of the online world, you can better your response of how many free visitors you can attract.

There is a lot that goes into choosing a domain name that will benefit you in a lot of ways. The most obvious suggestion is to have a domain name that is easy to remember. Secondly, you need to see if the name you want is available, and thirdly, can you get the name you want with a .com extension.

Let’s look at the more important factors of choosing the right domain name. Having a good domain name is important based on how a search engine ranks your website in its directory or generic search results. Google is or should be your number one search engine to satisfy. Since they are the biggest and most used search engine for people just typing in generic requests for information, you want your website to show up near the top of the search results.

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To further explain what is meant by choosing a good domain name, let’s look at an example. If you have a business or website that sells woven baskets and you want to call it Sally’s Woven Baskets, you would think the most obvious domain name would be SallysWovenBaskets.com and you could probably get that domain name.

The worst thing you can do is place a non descriptive keyword at the beginning of your domain name. Using the same example, no one knows or cares about Sally and that is the first keyword the search results will go looking for to help the viewer find. The last thing the search results will look for is woven baskets. SallysWovenBaskets.com will end up on page 5970 or worse for woven baskets. That is not where you want to be.

Now think for a minute, how can we improve this situation? Since our most important keywords are woven baskets, how can we start the domain name using them? www.WovenBasketsbySally.com will create a much better chance with the search engines placing your website near the top and can give you far better generic search results. Top ranking generic search results equal free advertising just for doing your homework.

Of course there is more work that needs to be done using seo tools, but you have made your chances of getting ranked high with your domain name better by paying close attention to what the search results will find first.

Another aspect of getting a good domain name is getting a cheap domain name. Price has nothing to do with the quality or value of a web domain name. Getting a good deal and saving you money is important. When searching for which domain name registrar to use to secure your domain name, look for who is offering the best deal and hopefully they can provide your website hosting as well. Grouping your domain name and web hosting together will make operating and managing your website much simpler and that is a good thing when running your online business.