People
generally want an online presence and so they buy a domain and hosting. But is
it the sole thing that one should consider before buying a domain name? My answer is
Capital NO, particularly if you want your domain to be a big brand and drive
business. How could someone buy a domain without considering the factors that
help building a brand? I think nobody wants to do that, but the reason behind
buying a bad domain name is having no proper knowledge of how domain helps growthe brand and business. If you are going to buy a domain, wait here and read
the complete tips that are really useful for you to build the brand and
increase traffic and drive business.
Your Name: Who doesn’t like to be
popular? Do you! Everyone wants to make their own name in this society and here
is the best way to make your name a brand and drive business. Just buy the
domain name with your ‘NAME’ as it creates trust in you and helps you build a
brand for your business. Everyone prefers .com domain if the business is
international wide. But you can buy a domain with .in, .org, or .net extension.
Company Name/Field Name: If you want your company
name to be a brand, buy your domain with your company name or the field name. If
your company name is xyz, then buy the domain xyz.com or if your website is
related to shoes, then you can buy something like shoesonline.com.
Extensions: A person who has minimum
knowledge on digital marketing knows ‘.com’ extension is the best for your
business but you can buy the domain with the country extensions if you want to
brand your business in the particular country. For example, if you want to grow
your business in India, buying domain with ‘.in’ extension helps you.
Hyphens: Hyphens are not really good for your
domain name. It is okay to add a hyphen to inner pages for making the URL
SEO-friendly but if you do it for your domain itself, it effects your ranking
and really bad for your business.
Exact Match Domain: Better avoid! As per the
Google updates, you will get penalized if you use exact match domain for your
website with poor content.
No Numbers: Avoiding numbers in your
domain is a better idea as if someone wants to refer your website to their
friends, they may confuse the number is numerical or words which cause loss of
some traffic to your website. Also, choosing numbers in your domain is not
user-friendly and SEO-friendly.
Misspelled Words: A misspelled word or
letter in the domain is the biggest mistake one shouldn’t do to their website. People
if don’t find their interested domain, they will choose the domain name by
changing one or two letters in that domain like ‘Cars’ and ‘Carz’. It is better
to avoid intentionally misspelling the words in a domain.
Small and Easy words: We all know small and
easy words are catchy and easy to remember. But finding a three or four letter word
is almost impossible. Spending enough time for getting a small and catchy domain
name is required, although if you don’t find a small word for your domain,
there are many ways that benefit your business.
Combining Words: Combining words to make a
better domain name is not really a bad idea. But the words you are combining
must be related to each other and catchy. Also remember, sometimes the meaning
of your domain name changes by combining the words.
Unique: When you are not ready to make your
name as a domain name, at least make it unique to make it easy to remember.
Amazon, Flipkart, and other big companies did the same. Taking enough time to
select the domain is the unknown trick to many.
Order: people like things to be organized
well and so the order is very important before finalizing your domain name. Sellshoesonline
is good but how about shoesonlinesell? Isn’t it poor! People will laugh at your
common sense.
Touching: World has a lot of emotional and
sentimental people and they really love touching names. If you find an apt and
touching domain name for your business, it will give you surprising results and
it is the one way to connect with your customers personally and maintain a relationship
with them without any communication.
Research: Never think it is a waste of time to
make a deep research for your domain name as you don’t know how big it is going
to be. Many brands do research for even months, do you believe it! So, spend
enough time in research, it may give you unique ideas you never got till now.
Keywords: Can I use keywords in my domain
name? This is a common doubt people are getting these days. Yes, why not! You
can use your keyword but remember only it is related to your business or at
least meaningful.
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