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How much
thought do you put into choosing a domain name?
Surely it's
the easy part of setting up a website, right?
You could be
missing out on well-deserved traffic and not even know it if you haven't been
savvy about choosing your domain name.
So what can
you do to make sure you're not sending your hard-earned traffic to someone
else's website?
You need to
put yourself in your customers' shoes. Say your fancied domain name out loud
and see how many interpretations you can get out...
Are you missing opportunities to promote your affiliate site with direct traffic?
We talked about search engine optimisation in our last post and we all know it’s a big focus of most site owners but could we be overlooking the power of doing more to drive direct traffic. What percentage of your site visits come from direct traffic? The pie chart on this page is taken from a website that I’m involved with and shows the high number of visits coming from people typing the website name in directly (stats are: 52% direct traffic, 35% referring sites and 13% search engines). I...
How to add another domain to your hosting
The great thing about many of the web hosting packages you'll find, is that they allow you to host multiple domains on the one hosting account. This means that you don't need to buy separate hosting for each and every one of your domains, saving yourself between $4 - 20 a month.
Every little bit helps!
But the big question is... how do you add another domain? It's not as obvious as it sounds!
First things first... you need to have purchased the domain. It won't work if you don't own it just...
Hyphenated Domain Names and Affilorama April Update
When we look for a domain name we tend to have a number of things on our wish list:
- It should be short.
- It should be memorable.
- It should contain our keywords.
- It should be a .com, .net or .org...
... And so on. This frequently leads to the exclamation: "All the good ones are taken! (Whine)"
Another thing that's frequently (unconsciously) on our wish list:
- It should be onebigword.com Not one-big-word.com
I see a lot of affiliates turning up their noses at hyphenated domain names. Obviously...
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