How To Choose The Best Domain Name

Introduction

This assumes that you want a domain name for a website based on your business or organisation, and that you want to optimize your domain for the search engines (a process known as SEO) so that your site’s listing is as high up in the search engine results pages (SERPs) as possible so that as many people as possible will see it, leading to greater visitor numbers, leading to greater sales and hence a greater income for you.

The first question to ask yourself is, is your business (or hobbyist site) intended for national and/or international coverage and a national or international market, or is it intended for a local market and coverage.

For example, if you are setting up a site based around your musical ability, your domination of a particular business or scientific sector or something vast and encyclopaedic then you may want the whole world to know about it, in which case you would probably want a domain name which reflected a global reach. Those who are on such a quest will be in a minority, and may well already be signed up to venture capital and business consultants hoping to be the next Google or Amazon, in which case the domain name they seek will probably already be registered by a domain broker or speculator, to be released for a large sum.

If, on the other hand, you are a dentist, a glazier or a heating engineer then you will most likely want to advertise your services within a local area.

I am going to assume that the vast majority of people who read this will be trying to sell their product or service to a local area, as that is what the vast majority of businesses are about – selling their product or services to people within a certain reach in order to beat other local competitors. Therefore, it is you who I will be addressing here (pace the future Googles and Amazons!).

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