Importance of a domain name
When you have a domain name for your website it will be something like: http://www.companyname.com. If you use free hosting from an ISP or other free server the name of your website would be something like http://www.freehosting.com/companyname. Which of these 2 domain name would you most likely remember in the future? Which one would you be more likely to visit, or purchase a product from? Which of these two is more professional?
Another thing to consider with your domain name is having an email address at your domain name like you@companyname.com. You could use free email services for your business but again, do an email for a business like company&at;hotmail.com look professional? Would you purchase a product from a company that uses a free email address?
Having email addresses at you own domain name can also help your company seem larger than it is, if you need it to. You can have “aliases” that point to your actual email address. You could have sales@companyname.com, info@yourcompany.com, support@yourcompany.com, accounting@yourcompany.com all deliver email to one email inbox at you@yourcompnay.com.
In today’s competitive Search engine ranking landscape a domain name of your own is extremely important. Many search engines place extreme importance on the index or main page of your website. When you use free hosting accounts the index page of the site is not your index page, but the index page of the free host (http://www.freehost.com/index.html). When you have a domain name the index page of your site will be the one the search engine looks at (http://www.companyname.com/index.html).
Some search engines will not even index a website if it is hosted on a free webhost. Indexing is the process the search engines use to find sites and find the content on websites. If the search engine won’t index your site because it is on a free host, then you are already fighting an uphill battle to reach the top of search engine rankings.
Now that you know the benefits of having a domain name for you website, why wait to register one. Mike Troup can help you find the perfect domain name for your website. Or if you want you can find one on your own right here.
Another thing to consider with your domain name is having an email address at your domain name like you@companyname.com. You could use free email services for your business but again, do an email for a business like company&at;hotmail.com look professional? Would you purchase a product from a company that uses a free email address?
Having email addresses at you own domain name can also help your company seem larger than it is, if you need it to. You can have “aliases” that point to your actual email address. You could have sales@companyname.com, info@yourcompany.com, support@yourcompany.com, accounting@yourcompany.com all deliver email to one email inbox at you@yourcompnay.com.
In today’s competitive Search engine ranking landscape a domain name of your own is extremely important. Many search engines place extreme importance on the index or main page of your website. When you use free hosting accounts the index page of the site is not your index page, but the index page of the free host (http://www.freehost.com/index.html). When you have a domain name the index page of your site will be the one the search engine looks at (http://www.companyname.com/index.html).
Some search engines will not even index a website if it is hosted on a free webhost. Indexing is the process the search engines use to find sites and find the content on websites. If the search engine won’t index your site because it is on a free host, then you are already fighting an uphill battle to reach the top of search engine rankings.
Now that you know the benefits of having a domain name for you website, why wait to register one. Mike Troup can help you find the perfect domain name for your website. Or if you want you can find one on your own right here.