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The importance of website domain name and its characteristics is as important as the identity of a human being. In the web world there are millions of web sites, just about 2.5 cores of web sites. Now one can think how much difficult is it for the internet user to find a site without a suitable name or information? Domain name is very important for ones survival in the competitive global market. There are also questions which occur such as when a website visitor can discover a website by a keyword or product or brand name, than what is the significance of Domain name?

What is Domain Name?

The domain name is a single name of the website which is used to view a particular site. The name you type in the address bar of the Internet Browser such as Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator is called domain name. Basically each web site has single IP address [a numerical digit] which is very hard to remember; therefore it is replaced by a domain name to easily remember and find by people. For instance domain name of our website is http://www.seoguru.biz A domain name provides an online identity and a contact point for your business, organization, or service.

Selection of Domain Name

Selecting a most suitable domain name for your web site is the very first step and vital task towards building your presence in the internet marketplace. In order to sell your product online or for online business, you need to build up your trustworthiness. Having proper domain name is the first step in that process.

Web optimization is a necessary element for every website to make your site popular across the world and attract natural traffic from search engines to generate business inquiries for expansion of your business. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) process starts by choosing a relevant domain name for your web site. Domain name is one of the key factors to get better your search engine ranking.

The Search engines spiders’ give importance to age of domain name; incoming links, web content, and the date when the domain was registered. The age of a domain name is an important factor for Google’s search engine algorithm. The era of a domain gives the appearance of long life and therefore good chances of Top Ranking in Google. This is also one of the important reasons that once you select appropriate domain name for your company you don’t need to change it for years and enjoy benefit of domain age for good listing in Search Results.

Things to be believe for selecting appropriate Domain Name for SEO

(1) The domain name that matches your brand name is very important. The name that you use to advertise your product is the name that you will want for your domain, because that is the first thing that people will find for your company. It is also the easiest for visitors to remember.

(2) Keep the name related to the industry in which your company operates, it may also send the precise message across to your visitors.

(3) Find some popular keyword related to your business or industry. This will help your customers remember your domain name better. In addition search engines also give top ranking to those web sites which contain the keyword in the title related to site content. Therefore if your domain name and content are relevant to each other then your site can get good benefits using ethical Search engine optimization for organic listing.

(4) Select name as per popularity of your company or products. Make a short list of keywords related to your company, business, service or profession. If your product or brand name is more popular than your company name than you should select domain related to your product or brand name.

(5) Try to avoid very long name of your website. It is advisable to not keep your domain name more than 67 character long. Give your first preference as .com for your site domain since most people are familiar with “.com”. No matter what you choose make sure it is short and easily recognizable. This is the name people will find you and you will be popular in the world of web. Preferably short, simple and catchy that easily memorable to visitors.

(6) Selecting an appropriate domain Name with targeted Keywords and Keyword phrases has one more advantage; when a website links to you using your domain name as the anchor text, this link gives you more weight on the search engines for the Key phrase used in the link anchor text. Directories such as DMOZ, Yahoo often use the site’s name in their listing.

(7) In case if you cannot get the domain name of your choice then you should go for some other alternative such as .in or .co.in. There is also other way that you may try to buy the domain name from the current owner. You can get that information from “whois” for the domain, contact person listed and check whether he is interested in selling the domain. But this is a long process and if you can find some good alternate domain name than it is more advisable to buy a new domain name for your website.

(8) If you are unable to get short name of your choice and you have to go for long name than you must consider long domain names that have your site keywords to get an advantage in search engine listing. You can use combination of keywords and keyword phrases to generate search engine friendly as well as user friendly domain name.

The domain name can also be known by its name after .dot extension. The end part after dot, “.com”, is called the top level domain (tld). This is the identifying part of the name which separates the actual domain name and was originally intended to put certain domains into different categories.Â

For example :

(A) .net used for Internet administrative site

(B) .org for big organization

(C) .com for commercial website

(D) .edu is for educational institutes; a top level domain name used for educationalists

(E) .gov used for government sites.

There are country specific domains from which one can easily identified that from which country the website originate.

For example

(A) .us for United Status

(B) .ca for Canada

(C) .in for India

(D) .uk for United Kingdom

(E) Â .jp for Japan

And finally one should know the difference between domain name and website. Owing your domain does not mean that you have your website. For having website activate on the internet for the particular domain name you need to buy web space to host your data on web server from web service provider.

By selecting appropriate domain name there are more chances to have natural traffic to your search engine friendly website because more people will be returning as they can remember your address and because many search directories, search engines such as Google, MSN, Yahoo etc index websites with their own domain first name. The right Web domain name for your business or organization can have extremely positive long term implication that can make all the difference. Cost of domain name is very low nowadays; by having a professional website design you can boost your business worldwide.

Search engines give top priority for the keyword occurring in domain name in Search Engine Result Pages (SERP). You can also take advice of professional SEO Company. A SEO professional can guide you to get most appropriate domain name for your business.