A Lot of People are on a quest to find the
perfect domain for their website and it is, in fact a tricky process because
selecting a domain name for the website is like selecting a name for your
business.
You can’t start the website without a name for
your domain but the website will be like a person with no identity thus it is
very important to have a domain name. Choosing a domain name shouldn’t be that
difficult and I will assure that you will find a name for in an hour by reading
this article.
Why choosing the right domain name is
important for your business website?
There are many who must be thinking now that why
it is so important to choose a Domain name. Well, when people choose a name for
their business or company they make sure that the name for their business or
company should resemble to what service or product they want to sell. It is the
same thing for the website because your website should resemble to what idea
you have and what service or product you providing.
Domain Name is the very first thing that the
audience will be interacting with your blog / website, Business or the brand
and the domain name is a part of your brand which plays a very big role.
There are many domain names that give a positive
and negative impact for e.g. Workfromhome.com sounds more like a spam website
and on the other hand cloud.in sounds like a trustworthy website. So it is very
essential that you choose a website that shouldn’t sound off and should be
crisp and unique.
The top characteristics you should have in
your Domain Name:-
1. As
said earlier that your Domain should resemble the service, product or any
particular niche you are working on. For e.g. A website selling garment has a
domain name as cutepuppies.com which doesn’t at all makes sense to what the
nature of the business is and it will also attract the wrong audience and thus
let the business go in loss.
2. The
most important thing is to keep a domain short and crisp because keeping a
domain name that consists more than 3 words will make it very hard to remember
the name of the website. For e.g. If a website name would be
Cloudcomputingbusiness.com, I am sure that many would label it as big boring
website but if you make it short and keep it to cloud.in then it would very
easy to remember.
3. The
name of the domain that you choose should be catchy and easy to spell. There
are so many websites who have kept difficult words that many people forget it
easily thus the words should be attractive and catchy. Don’t include too much
of hyphen and dashes or words because that will just increase the chances of
the website traffic rate going down.
4. Make
sure that the website name that you will be keeping should resemble what
business, service or niche you carrying out because a domain name can describe
the nature of the website. The website name shouldn’t create confusion or a
misunderstanding.
If you ask an SEO expert then
he/she will tell you to opt for .com domain saying that Google favours.com
domains which will ultimately end up showing more in the search engine results
and Yes! That sounds logic. The reason behind this is that .com is a top-leveldomain where the Google can easily recognize it and can rank results higher
than the other websites domain name. But contradicting to this Matt Cutts, Head
of the web spam team at Google explained that is not at all true; .com is
better than other because it is convenient to remember the domain name.
Let’s learn some Easy tips in
choosing a Perfect domain name:-
I will be showing you some very
simple steps that will help you in choosing the domain name that will work for
you best!
1. Brainstorming:-
Open a pen and book and start
writing all the words that comes up to your mind even though if you hate the
words that are coming up in your own mind right now. This will help you with
varieties of the option to choose from and understand that which word is better
suited for your website domain name.
2. Thesaurus:-
Now as you have a list of names
down on your list; you can start finding synonyms that will provide you the
better word suited the nature of your website. You can use Thesaurus.com to easily find various synonyms and even though if you are
going on a word spree.
3. Domain name Software generator:-
There are a lot of software’s
in the market that can help you with finding domain name if you are finding
hard to do this task by yourself. Panabee is
the best tool that can help you find a domain name and different ideas
associated with the domain name. You can write the domain name that you like.
4. Narrow down the search:-
As you must be having a list of
domain names with you, you can choose certain domain names that associate with
your business website. Eradicate all those names that are hard to pronounce and
also the domain names that are more than three words.
5. Availability of Domain Names:-
As you have some domain name with you, now is
the time to see if those domain names are available or no! You can use
Hostindia.net Domain Search to see whether these domain names that you
have are available. As word of advice, the domain names that consist of 1 or 2
words in the .com are premium domains so that will cost you a lot. In this
condition, you can also consider .net or .org instead of a .com which will work
best for you. There is one more note that you should keep in mind that it is
recommended that you buy a domain with the host.
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