Why Register More Than One Domain Name?
Submitting your site to as many search engines as possible is a good way to promote your business, but let’s take it a step further. Search engines scroll through your site looking for and totaling up specific key words. When people are looking in one of the search engines, it will ask them for the “key words” that they want the engine to search for. This is where it gets good! The search engines list each business according to the percentage of times a site has those key words. BUT!! If you submit your site 10 times you will not appear 10 times, you will still only appear once. Why? Simply because the many search engines file your page content within one domain name …
This is the reason to have more than one Domain Name.
Let’s say you are listed #5 in the search engine “Yahoo”, under the key word of Apple. When you re-submit your site to Yahoo 3 more times, you will not automatically become listing # 6, 7, and 8. You CAN by having more than one domain name.
Now, let’s say your domain name is apple.com
If you also had……
1.apples.com
2.machintosh.com
3.redapple.com
4.grannyapple.com
You now have an incredible advantage over other apple sites. Your business is now listed with 5 domains. This means you now have 5 times the chance of having a surfer click on the link to your site.
You need to protect your business/product’s name.
If you want to brand and protect your name, we recommend that you at least register the .net version. If you are an organization, we would also register the .org as well. This does several things. It brands your site and prevents others from copying your site and calling it yourdomain.net or yourdomain.org. Some nasty souls may even use these names for unethical purposes or sites that promote pornography. That will do great damage to your business or image of your organization. You do not want to be found in such awkward situation.
