Is There a Need to Optimize Domain Names?

By: Monica Corral-lorica
Submitted: 2007-01-17 13:08:10
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Domain names are essential in your effort to gain higher ranking and visibility on the search engines. The effect is not as high as inbound links – perhaps – but as always, a little help can change a lot. Most website owners who are new in the internet business use their company name as the domain name. This is not bad; however, if you could find a more fitted name that will direct people and potential customers to your site, it would be grand. What most new website owners don’t know is that a good domain name can actually help the site to rank well on the search engines.

Company Name as Domain Names

One of the most common mistakes that new domain owners commit is the choice of domain name. Most of them will opt to use exactly the company name. What they don’t understand is that you need to place relevant keywords on the domain name to get more traffic and gradually get higher sales profit. The domain must carry significant keywords that tell about the products or the services that the company offers. A company that sells “sports ball” online should have a domain name like “sportsball.com” rather than “bigjoe.com” (say Big Joe is the name of the company).

The domain name with relevant keywords will generate more visitors than the company name that tells nothing about the company itself. In registering a domain name, think of important keywords which you think your visitors will be looking for in search for your product or services. In doing so, the domain name is actually helping your site’s visibility and ranking on the search engines.

Advantage of Optimized Domain Names

To see if placing keywords on the domain name really works, you can try it for yourself. Key in some keywords on the search box and notice that those on the top list are sites with keyword-rich domain names. This is due to the fact that search engines read the keyword on the domain name as it crawls on the entire site. Hence, optimized domain names will be very useful and effective.

Getting the Best Domain Name

Most of the internet users think of domain names as all ending in “.com”. New website owners who are in search of a good domain name may end up feeling disappointed knowing that all his potential names are already taken. What happened to all the “.com” names? With millions of websites worldwide, what will you expect?

Don’t worry because search engines treat all domain extensions as equal. So the “.net”, “.biz” and other extensions are all cared for at the same level by major search engines. These extensions can actually be the key for a greater opportunity to register an optimized domain name that carries relevant keywords about your site.

Altogether, what you need is an optimized domain name. It is not all that you need to increase your site’s visibility and rank but it does a little help!

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