1) Choose a keyword related domain name for your new website.
It is probably one of the most important parts of starting your new online business. You must choose a good quality domain name for your business and preferable a .com or a .co.uk if you are UK based.
For example you may have a company name already, like "A & B Marketing Ltd" specialising in allsorts of marketing media and you are thinking of starting a business directory.
You would be tempted to buy aandbmarketing.com but this is only useful in general advertising purposes, there is no harm in buying it to point to the main domain name, but if you want to get visitors to your site you must buy something a little bit more search engine friendly, a keyword related domain.
Here is an example, imagine A & B Marketing are based in Manchester in the North of the UK and their target base for the new directory is Manchester and surrounding areas the ideal keyword related domain would be manchesterbusinessdirectory.co.uk because that is what someone would probably type in to the search engines who are looking for businesses in Manchester area, so if your domain is manchesterbusinessdirectory.co.uk you will be on the first page within a few weeks of listing your domain name to the search engines.
2) Choose good reliable hosting.
Another very useful tip is to make sure you get good quality flexible hosting. Do not be tempted by free hosting packages because in most cases there is a catch. You will probably find that most free hosting are very limited to what they can offer your business website, like low web space and data transfer, so as your site grows and more people visit then that's where you start to get problems. Within no time you run out of web space or your visitors have drained your data transfer allowance. So what happens then? well your provider will email you and tell you its some ridiculous amount of money to upgrade, that's the catch. Buy good quality hosting from a reputable and popular provider. Read Full Story
No comments:
Post a Comment