Importance of Domain Name

John23 · Junior Member Joined: 24 May 2010 Posts: 97

HI,

There are number of good reason for having a domain name. followings are some of them.

1> If you ever change your web host, your domain name goes with you. Your regular visitors or customers who knew your site name as "www.whatever.com" (for example) would not have to be informed about a change of URL. They would simply type your domain name and they'd be brought to your new site.

2> If you get a domain name that describes your company's business or name, people can remember the name easily and can return to your site without having to consult their documents. In fact, if you get a good name that describes your product or service, you might even get people who were trying their luck by typing "www.yourproductname.com" in their browser.

3> If you want good sponsors (Advertisers) for your website, a domain name is usually helpful. It tends to give your website an aura of respectability.
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Merlinclancy · Junior Member Joined: 01 Jun 2010 Posts: 8

1. The only way to make money online is to build up credibility among your customers. Having your own domain name is the first step in doing that. Your customers will feel more comfortable buying whatever it is that you are selling if you have your own domain name. It makes your customers feel that they are dealing with a large, established company, rather than with some fly by night operator.

2. Many search engines give a lot of emphasis to the home page of a particular domain, i.e. other things remaining the same, a home page of a domain will often rank higher for a particular keyword than any other page. When you use some of the free hosting services, your index.html page is the home page of your site, but not of that domain. Hence in these search engines, your site will find it very difficult to make it to the top 20 or top 30, let alone the top 10 for some of the really competitive keywords. Just think of the amount of traffic that you will lose if this happens.

3. Some search engines are now refusing to spider the web sites which are hosted by the free web hosts. For instance, if you have a site hosted by the free web hosts, you would, until recently, have got the infamous error message saying that too many pages have been submitted from your site if you tried to submit your site to AltaVista. While Altavista now says that "your URL has been submitted for processing" if you try to submit your site, rest assured that it will not spider any site belonging to many of the free web hosts even though it says that your site has been accepted. Can you afford that?

4. When your site is hosted by some of the free web hosts, you will find it very difficult to get it listed in a major directory like Yahoo!. Although Yahoo! will never admit that it won't add a commercial site which is hosted by one of the free web hosts, in practice, it will be a miracle if you can get your site listed by Yahoo!. Listing your site with Yahoo! is difficult enough even when you have your own domain. Don't make your task more difficult than what it needs to be.

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judthryn · Junior Member Joined: 04 Aug 2010 Posts: 2

HI,

Many search engines give a lot of emphasis to the home page of a particular domain, i.e. other things remaining the same, a home page of a domain will often rank higher for a particular keyword than any other page. When you use some of the free hosting services, your index.html page is the home page of your site, but not of that domain. Hence in these search engines, your site will find it very difficult to make it to the top 20 or top 30, let alone the top 10 for some of the really competitive keywords. Just think of the amount of traffic that you will lose if this happens.

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sahilh · Junior Member Joined: 21 Aug 2010 Posts: 3

Before finalizing with any budget web hosting company, find out the amount of space your website will need. Also find out the bandwidth requirements of your website. You will require higher bandwidth if you transfer large files such as high resolution images, audios and videos. Always choose a web hosting provider that offers service throughout the year. Reliability must go simultaneously with affordability.
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