Your domain name,
or URL, is the 'web address' where people find your site.
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. . .
With the type of
sites we're building, our primary source of traffic will come
from the search engines - or people clicking on a link.
That means it doesn't
need to be simple, memorable, or easy to spell.
We can contrast
that with having a business where you may want to give your
URL out over the phone, or it needs to be memorable.
Attempting to give
the web address the-hot-water-heater-site.biz over the phone
becomes a nuisance. 'the dash hot dash water dash heater dash
site dot biz' would be a disaster to spell out a dozen times
per day.
But you don't have
to worry about that here.
You want the best
domain name you can get - the ideal for our hot water heater
site would be hotwaterheater.com. That isn't likely to be
available, so we'll go with the best we can get. And it's
OK if that includes dashes, numbers, or it's a .com, .biz.,
.us, whatever.
You will encounter
people who say that "If it isn't a .com, or even a .net,
then you get penalized by the search engines." I've seen
no evidence of this personally.
I think the truth
is, .com's and .net's have been around longer, those sites
with .com's and .net's are more established and that's the
deal. They didn't pop up yesterday - they've stood the test
of time and the search engines give value to that longevity.
So we can start
our search for a domain name at GoDaddy.com Notice the box
that says "Start your domain search here" You can
start by typing in something along the lines of 'hotwaterheater' |
