You have decided to get a new website or revamp your old website. You may have a very clear idea of what you want to call your website or you may have no idea. The name you call your website should be similar or the same as the domain name you choose or the url you choose. The domain name or url has to be purchased and can only be bought if no one else has already bought that name.
Buying a domain name or url is quite simple but an important part of affordable website design, just follow these steps:
First search the name you want to see if it is available. For example if you have a shop called Janes you may search for Janes and find that it is not available as Janes.co.uk or Janes.com or Janes.info but it is available as Janes.biz. Alternatively Janes may not be available at all. If your shop is very well established with a very large following on the high street, then you could either try to buy the domain Janes from someone that already has it, but this could be a costly option. A better option would be to add a slight variation to the name you are searching for, for example Janes-fashions or Janes-fashion-shop or Janes-sweets or Janes-sweet-shop or Janes-cakes or Janes-cake-shop. This slight variation has 2 effects it makes a new set of domain names available to search and it also better desribes your shop to anyone in the UK or further afield that may never have heard of it. People and the search engines would then know that Janes is either related to fashion or a fashion shop etc..
Once you have decided on the best domain name for your website, you then pay an annual fee to register the right to use the domain name. This registration fee is a very affordable part of web site design and may be as little as £10 per year, the url tags .com and .biz are more expensive than .co.uk or .me.uk and many other tags.
Once you are registered as the owner of the domain name, you have the right to use that domain name and no one else can use it. Next you need a website and then hosting for your website, this is the web space where your website will be placed online. Hosting may be payable per year or per month and may vary from £10 per month to £50 per month depending on your exact needs.
Selecting your domain name is an important part of your web site design , so choose carefully, once you have your name you do not want to change. Your domain name should ideally be the same as your web site name. So anyone that knows of your business or cause, they can easily remember your website name to be able to find your domain name url, this is invaluable in advertising for your website and aids affordable website design.
So if your business or cause is called Dirty Dogs then your website domain name should ideally be http://www.dirtydogs/ or http://www.dirty-dogs/ or something similar. This way your domain name 'is what it says' and the domain name could be the exact term that someone types in a search box looking for dirty dogs or how to clean dirty dogs. This helps to validate the website amd aids affordable search engine optimisation.
Of course lots of domain names are already owned and used by other people and businesses. So how easy is it to buy the name you want your web site? Well as already stated, what ever the term you are looking for, there are always a few variations that you can try if your first choice url is not available, such as
www.DirtyDog or www.Dirty-Dog or www.Dirty_Dog or www.DirtyDogs or www.Dirty-Dogs or www.Dirty_Dogs
and each of these variations could be tried with various end url tags such as .co.uk or .com or .net or .info or .org. Namely:
www.DirtyDogs.co.uk or www.DirtyDogs.com or www.DirtyDog.net or www.DirtyDogs.info or www.DirtyDogs.org
If your web site design is being done for you, they should help you select teh most appropriate domain name url choice to reflect your website, your business, your type of business as well as to be search engine friendly. All Afforable web site design UK include the purchase of a suitable url domain name.
Buying a domain name or url is quite simple but an important part of affordable website design, just follow these steps:
First search the name you want to see if it is available. For example if you have a shop called Janes you may search for Janes and find that it is not available as Janes.co.uk or Janes.com or Janes.info but it is available as Janes.biz. Alternatively Janes may not be available at all. If your shop is very well established with a very large following on the high street, then you could either try to buy the domain Janes from someone that already has it, but this could be a costly option. A better option would be to add a slight variation to the name you are searching for, for example Janes-fashions or Janes-fashion-shop or Janes-sweets or Janes-sweet-shop or Janes-cakes or Janes-cake-shop. This slight variation has 2 effects it makes a new set of domain names available to search and it also better desribes your shop to anyone in the UK or further afield that may never have heard of it. People and the search engines would then know that Janes is either related to fashion or a fashion shop etc..
Once you have decided on the best domain name for your website, you then pay an annual fee to register the right to use the domain name. This registration fee is a very affordable part of web site design and may be as little as £10 per year, the url tags .com and .biz are more expensive than .co.uk or .me.uk and many other tags.
Once you are registered as the owner of the domain name, you have the right to use that domain name and no one else can use it. Next you need a website and then hosting for your website, this is the web space where your website will be placed online. Hosting may be payable per year or per month and may vary from £10 per month to £50 per month depending on your exact needs.
Selecting your domain name is an important part of your web site design , so choose carefully, once you have your name you do not want to change. Your domain name should ideally be the same as your web site name. So anyone that knows of your business or cause, they can easily remember your website name to be able to find your domain name url, this is invaluable in advertising for your website and aids affordable website design.
So if your business or cause is called Dirty Dogs then your website domain name should ideally be http://www.dirtydogs/ or http://www.dirty-dogs/ or something similar. This way your domain name 'is what it says' and the domain name could be the exact term that someone types in a search box looking for dirty dogs or how to clean dirty dogs. This helps to validate the website amd aids affordable search engine optimisation.
Of course lots of domain names are already owned and used by other people and businesses. So how easy is it to buy the name you want your web site? Well as already stated, what ever the term you are looking for, there are always a few variations that you can try if your first choice url is not available, such as
www.DirtyDog or www.Dirty-Dog or www.Dirty_Dog or www.DirtyDogs or www.Dirty-Dogs or www.Dirty_Dogs
and each of these variations could be tried with various end url tags such as .co.uk or .com or .net or .info or .org. Namely:
www.DirtyDogs.co.uk or www.DirtyDogs.com or www.DirtyDog.net or www.DirtyDogs.info or www.DirtyDogs.org
If your web site design is being done for you, they should help you select teh most appropriate domain name url choice to reflect your website, your business, your type of business as well as to be search engine friendly. All Afforable web site design UK include the purchase of a suitable url domain name.
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