| Before even thinking about your site's content, you | | | | advertising on Google but I will write about these |
| will have to learn about Domains. A domain is the | | | | methods later anyway. |
| address of a site, like in EzineArticles.com, | | | | Pay attention to the complexity of your domain |
| EzineArticles is the domain. A domain name can end in | | | | name. You may want the people to remember it |
| .com, .eu, .org etc... To obtain a domain, you must | | | | easily. Not everyone will bookmark your site at the |
| purchase one from a domain registrar. Registering a | | | | first time so using an easy-to-remember domain |
| domain is provisional. You will have to re-register each | | | | would be a good choice. Having a simple domain not |
| year. | | | | only makes it easier for people to remember your |
| When choosing your domain name, you should think | | | | site, but it makes easier for you to tell others the |
| about what is important to you in connection to your | | | | address of your site, especially when you use the |
| site. If you want your site to be found in mayor | | | | phone. If you have a domain name with more then 3 |
| search engines like Google, Yahoo, then you should | | | | words, like tomjonesqualityfurniture.com, then use |
| choose a domain that contains the mayor keywords | | | | hyphens: This one looks better isn't it? |
| related to your business. The average person | | | | You can protect your name by registering multiple |
| searches by subject, so you'll want to choose a | | | | domain extensions (.net, .org). By doing so you can |
| name that includes keywords that your target | | | | keep people from copying your name. You don't |
| costumers would type in the search engines when | | | | have to build a site on all the domains, but you can |
| they search. | | | | forward them to the domain you use for your site. |
| It is however not necessary to have a domain that | | | | I found a great site, where you can register domains |
| includes keywords. If you want your name as your | | | | for very low prices, the site has other services too, |
| domain, you can do this too. There are multiple ways | | | | like hosting, email and site builders. Check it out if you |
| to advertise your site, so your target costumers can | | | | want: |
| find you even if your domain contains no keywords | | | | In the next part I will tell you about Web Hosts. |
| at all. There are methods like publishing articles, | | | | |