Domain Name Strategies

Search rankings are great, but consumers prefer to navigate directly to the online content they want. With a proper domain name strategy from Sitedeals it allows your business to strengthen its online presence of its brands and helps foster consumer confidence.

Consumers are likely to try domains based on the brands, products, and services that have been marketed to them, and there is a growing practice of entering creative domain names directly into a browser to reach more specific content. Therefore, domain names that contain a popular brand and a relevant search term appended with dot-com can likewise prove valuable for a company.

Sitedeals help you to monetise your business on the web in the most efficient way with three easy steps.

1. Choose the right names to register.
Know where your customers are trying to find you online, and make sure that you deliver relevant and safe experiences. This means understanding the following:

  • How customers most commonly combine your brand with descriptive terms in hopes of reaching content that is more targeted than what they would find on the general home page.

  • Which misspellings and keystroke mistakes of your popular domains are the most common, and therefore the most likely places to find traffic meant for your sites.

  • Which generic domains will best promote your brand and establish your company as a leader in your industry.

2. Put an end to wasteful registrations and maintenance of unproductive domains.
Be discerning in your registration choices and continually monitor the productivity of domain names in order to ensure that they are providing a return on investment.

  • Delete names that are not related to your brand's promotion or protection strategy. You might be surprised by just how many names your company has accumulated "just in case."

  • Sell non-branded domains that are no longer beneficial to your company, but may be desirable to another company. This not only cuts costs, but also generates cash flow from past domain investments.

3. Optimize the names you own and plan to keep by using them to your benefit.
Redirect owned domains to the most intuitive content so consumers who type these domains are greeted by rewarding branded content.

The internet is an ever-changing landscape, and it is important to keep up with new developments that affect the domain name space. The latest challenge facing brand owners is the potential launch of an unlimited number of new TLDs. With the expansion of the domain space, there will be more opportunities for brand promotion and brand exploitation, so it is important for companies to establish better domain name portfolio maintenance habits now, form a strategic plan, and execute it with discipline.