Choosing a Domain Name for Your Foreign Language Translation Business

By: Clint Tustison
Submitted: 2007-01-17 13:08:08
Print this article | Tell a friend | For publisher | Social Bookmarking
Rating:
 

Unless you've been living in a cave somewhere for the past decade, you now know that owning a website and promoting it the right way can help you improve your freelance translation business. There are many steps that you have to go through when you finally decide to build a website for your business, but one of the beginning steps is to choose a domain name for your foreign language translation business.

There are many articles on how to choose a domain name, and most of them offer good general tips for people interested in building their websites. However, there are some things to keep in mind when choosing a domain name for a translation business.

First of all, a website domain name is usually the first introduction a person has to your website, and by extension, your business. If that person, a potential client, doesn't have a good first impression of your domain name, there's a greater possibility that that person won't click on your website, and therefore you won't have that lead. That places a considerable amount of pressure on just the domain name.

So what characteristics should your foreign language translation business domain name have? I think the most important thing is that the domain name needs to be descriptive of what your business provides. Many people in the translation industry use their name as the domain name for their business and while this isn't horrible, it doesn't do a good job of describing what your business offers. For example, if you are a Spanish translator, put some combination of the word "Spanish" with another word, so that when people see your domain name they will at least know you work with Spanish and not something else.

Another thing to remember when choosing a domain name is to make it readable. Previously, people thought that dashes in domain names weren't very professional and that search engines didn't like them. Well, I don't think that is necessarily the case anymore. The goal of search engines is to provide good results for human searchers and making a domain name easier to read by using dashes between words will help human visitors be able to read the name of your website and know what it's about. In the world of the Internet, seconds do matter and if a (potential) client has a hard time reading the domain name for your foreign language translation business, you can forget about them spending extra time trying to read it. They'll move on to the next site for sure.

Whatever you decide to use as your domain name, though, make sure it fits your business and that you make it easy for visitors to read it. Just by taking these tips into consideration, you will be on your way to then creating a website capable of attracting clients in need of your foreign language translation services.

Clint Tustison is a Spanish <--> English translator interested in helping businesses and translators better understand the translation industry. If you're interested in how to improve your translation business or your relationship with translation companies, check out his website at http://www.spanish-translation-help.com

Article source: Expert Articles

Most Recent Articles in Domain Names category

  • 1 Year on From Sunrise for the .asia Domain Launch - By: James Betchley
    Nearly a year has passed since Early Bird Sunrise registration began for the coveted new .asia domain extension, the Early Bird Sunrise period (SR2a) was the first opportunity for commercial entities to register a .asia extension. Prior to this, registration was limited to Asian governments wishing to submit their public bodies and culturally or economically important domains during the pre-Sunrise period.
  • What Everybody Ought To Know About Domain Reselling Business - By: Sandra Mathew
    Domain Reselling Business Ethics - Learn how Domain Resellers jumpstart their business in the Domain and Hosting Industry.
  • It's good form to credit your source even when it comes from the public domain - By: Narinderjit Singh
    "Okay, well what will your site be on?" He encouraged me to think about the things in which I was an expert. That wasn't too tough. I've spent five years helping people in crisis find drug addiction treatment. "How about if I help people understand drug addiction treatment." Now he was sure I had taken too many falls, and that they had all been while riding without a helmet. More out of pity than duty, he showed me how to use Overture's bid tool.
  • Domain selection - 5 Tips for choosing a domain name - By: George Pallan
    Domain selection - 5 Tips for choosing a domain name The domain name is a very important part of your website. The careful selection and key wording of your domain name is one of the most crucial part of the initial steps in setting up any website. Here are the 5 tips for choosing a domain name.
  • The Quest for the Perfect Domain Name - By: Christie Cadogan
    The details one has to consider when searching for that perfect domain name. Domain name choices.
  • Choosing a Domain Name for your Success Coaching Business - By: Mikel Bruce
    Your domain name is one of the most important decisions that you can make when you start your business and/or when you decide to invest in a website for your Coaching Practice. Even if you have an established website and domain name, if it does not fit certain standards you may want to consider changing it so that it is a more effective tool for helping you grow your business
  • Benefits of Choosing Reseller Hosting - By: Richa Sinha
    Reseller hosting is a form of web hosting wherein the account owner may split up their allotted hard drive space and bandwidth and resell web hosting. Hence, it acts as a middleman between parent web hosting company and the end customer.
  • Domain name – An Introduction! - By: Richa Sinha
    A domain name is a name that identifies one or more IP address. These are mainly used in URLs to identify particular web page. This article elaborates more about types of domain names.
  • Simple Step For Choosing Great Web Host - By: Richa Sinha
    There are thousands of web hosts around today with thousands of plans to choose from making what was once a simple procedure seem like a daunting task for both newbie and pro alike.
  • Some Common Myths Against Domain - By: Richa Sinha
    Applicants for domain names have developed their own myths. Some have been repeated so often, they sound true. Those untold information is what this paper is going to tell you.