http://www.rutley.co.uk A web developer and SEO consultant based in Manchester Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:27:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.rutley.co.uk/blog/how-to-choose-a-domain-name http://www.rutley.co.uk/blog/how-to-choose-a-domain-name#comments Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:37:13 +0000 Sam Rutley http://www.rutley.co.uk/?p=51 Today I was talking to a client who was registering a domain for her new website. She wanted some tips on how to choose a domain name and what is good for SEO, so I thought I’d share my top …

]]> Today I was talking to a client who was registering a domain for her new website. She wanted some tips on how to choose a domain name and what is good for SEO, so I thought I’d share my top five domain name choosing tips with you:

1. Choose a domain name that is avaliable with your countrys TLD. For example if you’re in the UK then .uk, in spain .es and italy .it
2. Choose a domain name that has the .com equivalent available (you should then 301 redirect this to your other domain).
3. Include a keyword in your domain- for example if you sell children’s toys a domain like samstoystore.co.uk is much better for SEO than samsonline.co.uk
4. Don’t make your domain too long- the domain should be memorable but not long, customers simply won’t type it and the search engines will truncate it.
5. Don’t use hyphens or numbers- just use letters, hyphens don’t make a difference for SEO and make the domain hard for people to remember.

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