How to choose a domain name for SEO

So, you've spent months thinking of the ideal, smart and catchy name for your brand or company, you've secured the trademark, and you're about to begin the search to purchase the matching domain name for your spectacular soon-to-be launched website. Stop right there, and read this before you take another step.

Although it may come as a surprise, the best domain name for your website may not necessarily be the name of your company at all. Rather, to ensure SEO (search engine optimisation), your domain should be a word, or composite of words, relating to your products or services. If you're wondering what SEO is and why it's important in your choice of domain, search engine optimisation or SEO is the process of modifying a website to enhance its chances of appearing in the top search results when relevant key words are entered into a search engine. In other words, it's one of the most effective ways of increasing the volume of traffic and incidental visitors to your website, which at the end of the day means more new customers or clients for you.

Picking the right domain address in itself will make search engine optimisation much easier, so let's look at some of the things to consider before you make that all important purchase.

The first thing that you should do is research and brainstorms the top five phrases or words that relate to your company. You may find that Google Adwords, and other similar programs available online, provide free key word searches that can help you to narrow the field down to the most key-word rich website names for websites advertising your industry.

Once you have a few options to choose from, be sure that your final choice of domain is one that is brief and will be easy to type and to remember. As a general rule, domain names should contain a maximum of three words and keep the use of complex or hyphenated words to a minimum.

After deciding on your domain, the next step is to choose a top level domain (TLD) name extension. For any website, the most popular domain extension is usually.com, so you should try to purchase your domain ending with.com wherever possible. Now you've found the perfect domain name, you may also want to investigate the possibility of purchasing the domain name with as many extensions as are available (.com,.net,.org and so on) in order that your customers are not diverted to possible competitors.

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