Registering a Domain Name
Choosing the Right Domain Name. This is critical, Your Domain Name should be your business name and main keyword,
if you are creating a website about selling bananas then you could use, www.sellingbananas.com
if that is not available then add another word www.sellingbananasfast.com, when deciding a domain name its a good idea to see
how many times people search for the name by doing a keyword search.
This webmaster tool will suggest keywords or phrase's based on your search and best of all also gives you the global monthly searches
and the local monthly searches, this info if used correctly will help your website get lots of visitors.
Keep the name as short as possible try not to put a hyphen like www.selling-bananas.com as when someone talks about your website they
probably wont remember the hyphen, you can use hyphen's on your other web pages that you build not your main Domain Name.
New Website Page. Another good tip is when you create a new page for your website don't simply name it eg. about us use the keyword tool, it
will give you suggestions and number of monthly searches so you could find another popular key word, and name the about us page like
this best-priced-bananas-about-us the URL would look like this www.sellingbananas.com/best-priced-bannanas-about-us
instead of www.sellingbananas.com/about-us this will help your SEO and then of course you include best priced bananas in your keyword tag,
you can follow this example finding different keywords and fitting them in your other pages that you create.
COM, ORG, NET, etc? My first choice would be com followed by ORG, NET unless you want your website in a certain
country, then go with the country, like UK use .co.uk you can also purchase multi domains and point them to the same website,
If you are buying a .co.uk domain name (e.g. mywebsite.co.uk), make sure you also buy the other main TLD's (Top Level Domains)
for the same prefix (e.g. mywebsite.com, mywebsite.net). This will ensure that no-one else can come in at a later stage and capitalise
on your brand name using another major domain name type. Although there are dozens of TLD types available, always purchase the
.com, .net and .org variants to protect your brand
Cheap Domain Names.
Go Daddy Choose a reputable domain name supplier. A company which has been around a while and is well known is a
probably the best. We'd also recommend choosing a company which provides a user interface so that you can manually edit your domain name
details (email forwarding, transferring your domain name elsewhere). We've used
Go Daddy.
for all our domain name purchases for the past decade without any problems.
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