How to select a website name

How to select a website name

The website name, as well as its appearance, make the first and often main impression on visitors. What needs to be considered when choosing a name for the website that the first impression was positive?

Instruction

1. At first decide in what domain zone your website will be located. The most popular zones – ru and com. Selecting a website name, you correlate it to a domain zone. Look how the name looks (type it in a line of the browser) whether it is convenient to type it. Say aloud – whether well it sounds in combination with the name of a domain zone.

2. Select the website name reflecting its subject. Such names directly are associated with the topic interesting users, are easier remembered. Also existence of keywords in a website name favorably affects at indexation of the website search engines.

3. If your website author's, and you want to make recognizable the author – use in the name of the website the surname, a name, initials. Your recognizable nickname can become a name of the website also.

4. The website name is shorter, the it is easier to remember it, the it is simpler to enter into a line of the browser. And, though, many short names are already occupied, avoid wide words difficult to pronounce. Long names of the websites increase risk of their wrong writing.

5. Enter a hyphen into the name. The website name consisting of several words written through a hyphen is frequent it is perceived better than if words are written together.

6. If the name of the website which was pleasant to you is already occupied, add to it number. It can be easily recognizable combination. For example, 03 for the websites of medical subject. And number 911 in a name of the websites offering various services will emphasize that you act quickly. The numbers designating the region are also popular. If the website has regional value (services are rendered in your region), number of the region will be perceived positively by visitors of the website, users of services.

7. Check whether the domain name on the websites loggers of domains is free. If the website name already exists, the form will offer you unoccupied domain zones with this name. Select that name of the website which will be pleasant to you most of all.

8. There are certain categories of domain zones: info is the news, information websites, aero – are used for the websites connected with aircraft and flights, etc. The international non-profit organization Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN is engaged in the questions connected with regulation of names of the websites. Check, perhaps the subject of your website will allow you to select a name taking into account the recommendations of this organization.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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