Your Home Business Website Domain Name
Posted in Watkins Business by Eldon on December 11th, 2006 If you are a network marketer or home based business person looking to set up a web site to help promote your business, one of the first things you need to do is choose a domain name. Your domain name is the internet address of your web site and looks something like this: (http://www.yourhomeincome.com). Once registered, your domain name is yours and nobody else can use it so long as you keep the registration active.
Once upon a time, it was easy for network marketers and other home based business entrepreneurs to find a good dot-com domain name for their web site. Unfortunately, with the dot.com variety being the oldest and most recognizable, most of the really good names are long gone. Because of the scarcity of short and easy names, you will see really long domain names like “work-from-your-own-home-make-money.com”. That one appears to be available at this writing. Names like this, while descriptive, can be troublesome for people to remember.
An ideal domain name will be fairly short, easy to remember, and contain keywords related to your business. For example, if your business is selling a diet program, you might want a name like “be-thinner-with-ease.com”. I just checked with Network Solutions, and at this moment that name is available. The non-hyphenated version “bethinnerwithease.com” is also available. It would be wise to register both. If you use the hyphenated version for your site, remember that people who see your domain name are likely to remember (and enter it in their browser) without the dashes. If you use the hyphenated version for your site, you can set up a simple re-direct for the non-hyphenated version. This means that when someone types either URL in their browser, they will end up at your site.
Obviously, if designing a personal site for a hot topic like weight loss products, finding really good names in dot.com will be difficult. While the example above is acceptable, in my opinion, it is still perhaps a little awkward in some way. But easy to remember? I think it is.
Sometime the hardest part of choosing a domain name is coming up with a combination that sounds good. There are some good tools online that let you enter keywords and the tool generates various possible combinations. Of course, some of these will be gibberish, but the idea is to brainstorm and help you come up with a good name
One such tool is http://www.domainsurfer.com - find others by searching Google on a term like “domain name brainstorm tool”.
Good luck, and take your domain name choice seriously. Take time to make this important decision. The success of your web site, in part, depends on it.
About the Author:
Eldon Beard is a Watkins Manager with Associates All Across the USA and Canada
