Overview Domain Name Purchase

The Domain Name is the "Web Address" of your site. We will show you how to use the tools to acquire a website name with the following characteristics:

Related to your business, ecommercebydesign.com

Easy for people to remember

Allows for search engine optimization to bring people to your site.

Available

Technical Details Domain Name Purchase

Many sites will in general use two different domain names. The first domain name would be one that is search engine friendly. This name would have at least one of the sites main keywords embedded in the name.

The second domain name would be a user friendly name. This name would be a short easy to remember name or a name that is associated with the "brand" of the site.

The website would actually be hosted at the address of the search engine friendly domain name. All additional domain names would be linked to the hosted site by forwarding of addresses known as a 301 permanent re-direct. It is common to have several misspellings of a domain name linked by means of address forwarding to the hosted website.

To illustrate the concepts a website that offers a design service for websites: The search engine name may be www.WebSiteDesign.com. The brand name could be www.Dev-x.com, this would be forwarded to the hosted site. It is common practice to buy several variations of the names to prevent competitors from registering variations of your name.