Your Own Domain Name

Design a web site with quality in mind, write so that people of all education levels can understand, choose your domain name wisely, work with a quality hosting company, and above all, submit, submit, submit!

The domain is your URL or website address. When deciding on your domain, you need to consider several things. NEVER grab the first domain name that catches your eye. Your domain name will either bring people to your site or turn them away. Choose wisely and consider the following:

Choose a .com extension for your domain name (.edu is for educational institutions, .org is used for non-profit, medical, and .net is typically used as a backup to .com)

Stay away from long domain names

Avoid using numbers or single letters for words if possible (i.e., 4=for, U=you, etc.)

Choose a domain name that has a word searchable by search engines

Coordinate your domain name with the type of product, service, or individual purpose intended and choose additional domains with coordinating names.

If using a business name, try to purchase a domain name using both name and acronym of the business.

If your business name is often misspelled, purchase a domain name for the misspelling as well

For the sake of example, we will say that you have a business for dry cleaning. The name of your business is Bee's Dry Cleaning and Laundry Services and the acronym for your business is BDC. Here are a few examples of each:

Do choose www.beesdrycleaning.com

Do not choose www.beesdrycleaningandlaundryservices.com

Do not choose www.beesdrycleaning-laundryservices.com

Do not choose www.bees-drycleaning.com or www.beesdrycleaning-laundryservices.com

Do choose words that are searchable www.beesdrycleaning.com (has both dry cleaning and cleaning, which are strong search words)

Do choose www.beeslaundry.com, or www.beeslaundryservices.com, or www.beesdrycleaningandlaundry.com (these are in addition to www.beesdrycleaning.com and although the last example is long, this website will only be used for traffic that will redirect to the actual website)

Do choose www.bdc.com

Do choose www.beasdrycleaning.com (since bee and Bea may be accidentally interchanged, get both)

All of these suggestions will help your website gain more visibility, thus more visitors. Good site to talk about domain name www.dnforum.com