"Big Mama Bear" <> wrote in message
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> If someone is picking a new domain name, which might work better, one
> with
> spaces or hyphens in it? As far as more people seeing it?
>
> For example my-domain.com or my_domain.com ?
>
> Or a .com or .biz, .net, etc?
Spaces in domain names? When have you EVER seen spaces in domain names?
Many browsers, e-mail clients, and other software will automatically
underline (and change color) of URLs. That is, they make it evident
that it is a clickable string to a URL. However, the underscore will
disappear into the underlining. So other users like yourself might
think there are spaces in the URL to your site that has an underscore in
it because the underlining hides the underscore.
If you include a dash or hyphen, you'll end up having to buy, at least,
3 domains: one with a dash, one with the underscore in the same position
as the dash, and another with no dash or underscore. Google and other
search engines ignore "special characters", so someone searching on
your_domain.com is actually searching on "your domain com". Also read
http://www.webrankinfo.com/english/s...underscore.php.
If you want to be sure they find YOUR site then don't use special
characters in your domain and use a long enough one to make it
relatively unique to you.
If your domain's name is too short, especially if cryptic, it may not be
distinct for users to remember it, like dlc.com versus dlcc.com. If it
matches a brand or trademark name, you could end up in a legal battle
over it; e.g., "Shack" is a registered trademark of Radio Shack and they
have shut down several business or forced them to make a name change
that had "shack" in their company's name, like "CD Shack".
If you buy a domain name with .net or .org as the TLD (top-level
domain), remember that many users will forget that and use .com; i.e.,
they'll enter yourdomain.com instead of yourdomain.net. Also, they
might enter "yourdomain" in the Address bar of their browser, hit
Ctrl-Enter to do URL completion which adds "www" for hostname and "com"
for TLD, and be off to someone else's site with the same domain name.
In fact, there are some that deliberately buy up the alternate TLDs for
a business domain trying to capture some of their traffic, or to weasel
some funds out of the business when that company realizes they should've
bought their domain name across all the major TLDs.
"As far a more people seeing it?" Unless blind, everyone will "see" it
once it is in their face. If you spam or have links to your site then
the users will "see" it. More likely you meant how to get it included
in search engine databases and possibly also you want it near the top of
a listing of matches from their database. Unless you have lots of folks
that target the search engine to your site (by finding it in their
database) to percolate it to the top of the list, you'll have to go
submit your web site to the search engines (rather than rely on luck
that their web crawler finds yours) and then use various tricks to move
it up the list. However, no point in going into specific for such very
unspecific questions. There is lots of software out there that promises
to get you submitted to lots of search engines and up your ranking if
you don't want to do all that manually.
http://www.google.com/search?q=%2bdo...%22+%2branking
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