• Section: Increase Traffic - Category: Domain Name
• Written by Connie McKenzie

So you have decided to start a business online. Your dream is to become a huge success, however, in order to stand out from the crowd you will want to focus on choosing a domain name for your business that is related to what your site is about.



People type in your domain name when they are looking for your website in particular. It will look something like this: www.mywebsite.com. It is your virtual real estate address.



The best thing that you can do for your website in order to get repeat visitors and free word-of-mouth traffic is to give it a memorable domain name. A domain name that people can remember without having to look it up all the time or having to bookmark it and losing it among all the others.



Some people will tell you that all the good names are gone, not true. I h

ave listed several guidelines you can follow that will make your domain name and business a more popular web destination.



1. Choose a Dot-Com



As a rule, choosing a domain name for your business that ends with a dot-com or .com is the best. Dot-Com is considered the Main St. of the virtual real estate world. When someone types in a domain they automatically use .com regardless of what the actual extension is.



Even though .org and .net were popular for a time and later .biz and .us, people always come back to the .com

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