samedi 13 octobre 2012

The Best Domain Name For SEO

By Helen Curnow


Creating a new website consists of many different concepts. What style to use? What colors? What about the biggest decision of all? The domain name could be the most important of all these elements. When it's time to choose a domain name you have two general approaches. One is to try and create a domain name that matches what people are searching for when they look for a product or service. The other is to create a brand identity with a domain name. We will discuss both approaches and the pros and cons of each.

For illustration, let's assume that a business named Tiny Treats sells cupcakes in New York City. A potential customer may use various searches to find what they want. If we assume we're not limited to domain names, it makes sense to concatenate a geography to a product or service. Through keyword analysis we might find that a typical person uses "new york city cupcakes" to search. A perfectly matched domain would then be newyorkcitycupcakes.com. Since this domain name matches a customers target search, they are very likely to get the jump on a non-matching domain. This is because the search engines give relevance to domain names and since they match it provides a benefit.

There might also be some adverse effects of going with a search matching domain name. Knowledgeable searchers may see your domain name as an attempt at an advertising scheme. Also, if a domain owner wants to expand their business offerings they will want to still make sense to the selection. "Ultimately, the biggest detriment to an exact match is the lack of a brand association since the company name is not involved," says Kyle Beauchamp of a NJ Web Design Company.

The other way to go is with a brand or company name as the domain decision. This typically means using the company name as the domain name. This can create a brand association with your customers in the long-term. Think of common name brand products or services. Often their names are meaningless from a product perspective. The name Ford, for example, is known for cars and trucks but has nothing to do with them by name alone. Also, a typical SEO approach is to use keywords and phrases as internal slugs so that their URL still caters to the search engines. An address like mystore.com/what-I-sell can both retain a brand and make the URL search engine friendly.

While some people would rather have a domain that sounds like a brand name, there are still several advantages to finding a domain that matches customer searches. You will definitely see a bump in search results for that search term and site lets searchers know that its content is relevant to their needs. Of course not every domain name is still available and sometimes the lack of a decent matching domain may force you toward a non-matching selection. The key is to find a matching domain that fits the company well.




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