URL Research

Once you have a few ideas for your choice of a URL, do a little research on availability. GoDaddy is a popular site for buying URL's and it is a good place to do a little research to see if the URL you have chosen is available. After you type in a URL in the search bar it will give you a few other URL ideas. Try changing using hyphens in your URL, Shoe-store.com. These are often available and are a good choice in some instances. Do not choose a URL that is too long, that is a bad thing.

Website / Product Research

Go to your favorite search engine and do some surveillance of your competitors. Use Google, Yahoo, MSN or your favorite search engine and type in description of your products or services you will providing on your website. First off you will get an idea of how many other company's are offering the same items. Then you can look at how individual sites describe there product and services. You can checkout the photographs, website design and webpage navigation.

The appropriate Domain Name for your business can make all the difference

Your URL, Uniform Resource Locator, (Domain Name) should represent the products and services that you provide. It is a key component in being recognized and ranked highly by search engines.

The common thinking for your Domain Name is to use your business name for your Website's Domain Name. This is not always the best decision for your Web Site if people looking for your products or services are not already familiar with your company.

Customers find you by typing in the product and services they are looking for in a search engine, Google, Yahoo, MSN.. etc. Unless they know you company name and if they do your are probably already doing business with them! You want some new customers.

For example, if you sell shoes your Domain Name should contain the word 'shoe' or 'shoes, www.shoeworld.com But the problem is that there is a good chance that all or most of the really obvious URL names have need taken. But again there all always some tricks that can be used to get a good URL for your needs.

Our professional understand the intricacies of picking the correct domain name for your business. We will advise you and, for a minimal service charge, will conduct some research to help determine the proper selection.

Your company name is usually unique to you and easy for customers to find by typing it into the search engine. It will usually come if it is prominent in the body of the text on your site. But there are a few other places in the 'code' of you site that needs to contain your name.

The Our Web Design Team on Maui is here to help you achieve this Internet presence, practically and affordably!