HOW TO CHOOSE THE DOMAIN NAME OF YOUR COMPANY WEBSITE
If you are going to develop a website for your company , one of the choices you have to make is the domain name. What is the domain name? Does the web domain influence the SEO positioning of our page?
It is logical that you have many doubts and questions about what could be the best domain name for your website . Although this is a task that you will normally decide and not your web design and development company, we want to give you some advice so that you can choose a domain appropriately.
Keys to choose the domain name of your website
To choose a domain name, you must take into account several
aspects.
1. Your company name
There are companies that are very clear that the domain name
has to be the name of their company. This makes it easier for people to easily
identify you and find you on Google.
This is for cases where your trademark matches your business
name. Because sometimes your company name is one and the name by which your
brand is known is another. In these cases, it is preferable to use the
trademark.
By the way, it is not advisable to add the initials SL or SA
to your domain, since they only refer to the legal form and this is of no use
at a commercial level.
2. Keywords
Putting the keywords of what you sell on your domain may
seem attractive, but it has some risks. For starters, SEO today is not like it
used to be. Google is getting smarter and better than a page that uses the
domain with the exact keywords you want to rank for will not necessarily
position you better.
In addition, another risk of using keywords in the domain is
that users do not identify your brand well. They are very generic names and
that carries risks of other people competing with you, buying different
extensions with the same keywords.
For example, if you are an online computer store, and you
buy a domain called "shoppingcomputers.com", maybe someone will come
and buy the domain "Buy computers.es", so your brand is not very
differentiated.
3. Your location
There are companies that only sell in Spain and others that
have an international vocation. The domain extension (.com, .es, .net, etc.) is
important to some extent. For example, if you want to sell abroad as well, it
is not recommended that you use the .es, since that will limit you more to the
Spanish market. On the other hand, if you do not sell abroad, it may interest
you.
In any case, buying a generic domain with a .com or .net
extension can be beneficial in either case.
4. Domain name provider
There are those who use the same domain name provider with
which they have contracted the hosting. And others buy the domain in another
company and point it to the hosting server where their website is hosted.
Whatever the case, this is an action that your web
development company can do for you so that your page is properly configured
with the domain pointing to the corresponding server and with the correct DNS.
5. The size
Ideally, the domain name should not be an excessively long
word. Think that if someone wants to write the name of your website directly in
the browser, if the name is long and confusing it will be more difficult.
Try to make it easier for your clients with a one or two
word domain name to make it easier. Also, if you sell several types of products
and services, it is always better that the domain is something more generic and
not too specific.
Buy my domain on WordPress, Wix, Blogger and the like?
If you have your website on a cloud platform, instead of
your own hosting, you will see that these tools let you buy a web domain
online. Now, this implies some complications, because it is not always easy to
transfer a domain from these pages to another provider when you want to switch
to your own hosting.
The recommended thing in your case is to buy the domain name
directly in the same hosting with which you are going to have the web hosted,
something that will make the process much easier.
We can help you in any case if you want to create a website
for your company. But remember that the domain is a product that you pay for
year after year, even if the price is very low (around 12 euros per year).