Purchasing only one single domain name can, over time, prove costly. Obtain a variety of domain names for your online business and you will never regret that decision.

Here are the key benefits for having more than one domain name for your business:

1. Expansion: Should your business go global and branch into international markets then it is important to have country specific domains, eg, .au, co.nz, or co.uk. Country specific domains readily inform your audience of your presence in those countries where the domain name resides.

2. Misspellings: It is important that users can find your site. If your business name can be spelled in different ways or is susceptible to misspelling, then it is good business decision to register misspelled domain names. Allowing for misspellings or variants of the name will mean you can direct users who misspell your business name to the right destination instead of sending visitors to an error page or worst to a competition.

3. Competition: Acquiring more than one domain name for your business can protect you from parasitic competitors from registering a similar domain name and thus grabbing a share of your market.

4. Search: A website which has many associated domain names is easier to find. Customers have different ways of finding a website in the internet. Give customers as many options as you can to find you by using different domain names.

5. Brand: Protecting your brand and online identity is essential for any online business. Securing a variety of names will inevitably boost your brand presence.

6. Traffic: Purchasing keyword rich domains is a traffic-generator strategy. The traffic attracted by these search engine discoverable domains can be directed to your main domain.

Emanila.com Pty Ltd, an Australian company, is an example of an internet company that uses various domain names.

In addition to emanila brand series like emanilapoetry.com, emanilaclassifieds.com, emanilavideos.com, etc., the following domain names are associated with emanila: emanila.com, emanila.net, emanila.org, emanila.info, emanila.asia, emanila.biz, emanila.mobi, emanila.tv, emanila.ws, emanila.us, e-manila.com, e-manila.biz, e-manila.info, e-manila.net, e-manila.org, and emanila.com.au.

With these domain names, emanila has been able to establish a dominant presence in its own market and has been able to protect its brand by registering for itself variations of its own domain name.

Don’t Use Your Company’s Name as Your Title Tag for All Pages!

Hopefully your website isn’t one of those sites that has the same title tag for all its pages: your company name! If so, do something about it today. The fact is that we have more than one page at our sites/blogs, because the content of each page is different. So, if the content is different, the title tags must be different.

The title of each page is that page’s topic and represents the content written in it. How could all pages of a website have the same content? For the same very reason, title tags should vary.

It could be OK when you use your company’s name for some pages to make it unique! You may wonder what I mean by this. Here’s an example: every website could have privacy policy, but Company X should choose a title tags like the one below for its “Privacy Policy” page:

Company X’s Privacy Policy

What makes this title tag unique is the name of company. This is an exceptional case, but I still would say that using your company’s name as the only phrase at your title tags isn’t a wise decision.

Avoid General Repetitive Title Tags

It’s been observed over and over again that some websites are using titles like:

* Homepage
* About Us
* Contact Us
* Services
* …

Such title tags cannot be called unique as many sites/blogs have got exactly the same wordings in their title tags. As you can see, these are the titles that could represent similar pages in all websites. Here’s the question: what is different about your “About Us” page?

For instance, you can change it to “Contact X for relocation in San Diego!” This helps your website keyword “relocation in San Diego” as well. On the other hand, if your site visitors find your page in search engines and enter your site from this page, they will know what you offer.

It should also be noted that implementing this practice will help you increase search engine ranking as well.

Avoid Using the Same Site Key Phrases at All Title Tags

Some may think it’s a good on-page SEO practice to use the same keywords for all the pages of the website. I think it is a harmful practice for your site, because it is a type of spamming search engines. Your descriptive title tags should reflect the unique content of that page, not the keyphrase of the site. When a site visitor lands in a page, she wants to know about that page. Your page content and navigation menu should introduce the site’s main topic to her.

Source: Rice Publishing

Your website is the first, and maybe the only, chance to make an impression on potential customers, so it has to have great content. Having a good-looking site is not enough. It needs to be organized well, it needs to be easy to read, and it has to contain relevant information.

Most of all, it has to be compatible with the attention spans of internet surfers who tend to skim content rather than reading every word. As you are creating content for your website, keep these 5 keys in mind:

1. Concise Writing. One of the greatest temptations of content creation is to include every single detail about your company. This is a natural tendency given your own excitement and passion about your business. But put yourself in the shoes of your prospective customer and think about what information you would like to glean from a business website, particularly how your product or service can help your customer solve a particular challenge or problem. And after you have finished writing, cut your word count in half!

2. Clean Layout. SEO professionals know that a potential customer reads only 20% of a website s content. Reach out and grab your website visitor by using catchy headings, writing in short paragraphs, using bullets to make your points, and bolding important words and phrases. Your headings should guide your visitors to your page s content so that they can easily find whatever they are looking for. Bullet points draw a reader s eye to short, easy-to-digest content that gives them pertinent information.

3. Keywords. Before you begin writing your content, research your keywords. Keywords are the words and phrases that web users type into search engines to find webpages related to the topics they are looking for. If you use the keywords on your webpage that your potential customers are typing into search engines, then your webpage will show up in the search engine results.

4. Easy-to-Read Language. One of the greatest pitfalls of content creation is using lingo only familiar to people within your niche. Have someone who knows nothing at all about your business read your content before you publish to make sure that the average reader will understand it. Avoid technical language at all costs.

5. Quality Content. Visitors to your website are looking for relevant, helpful, high-quality content. They are visiting because they have a problem to solve or a challenge to overcome, so make sure that your content delivers a solution. Remember that great content is not content that you find compelling, but content that your visitors find compelling. Start by writing an article that solves a problem that a potential customer might have. Then consider turning that article into an ebook that potential customers might be willing to download. You may consider starting a blog to share your ideas. Invite your friends and family to comment at the beginning until you get a larger following. Then consistently join in the conversation that takes place on your blog.
Above all, make sure that your content is free to your potential customers. If you start asking your visitors to leave their email addresses and other contact information, they are going to leave as quickly as they arrived.

The days of low-quality websites are behind us. If you want to be competitive then you have to have a website that not only looks good, but offers relevant information to visitors. If your website does not have the answers that potential customers are looking for, they can quickly find the information they need somewhere else. Keep their attention on your website by following the above guidelines and you will find that your visitors keep coming back and eventually turn into loyal customers.

Source: Rice Publishing