Why you should have your own domain name
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Keshav Kauchik February 01, 2008
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The tentacles of the hosting industry are spreading its range with
each passing day, bringing in more competition all the time. And this
being the scenario around the free web hosting services may seem very
much luring - free services, managing your site for free with their own
domain names!! But do you know what you miss when you don’t have your
own domain name? Let’s use a supposition to start with. Suppose
you are the proprietor of a business, maybe a small one, but you will
definitely look out for the internet as one of the means of reaching
out to your customer circle. When you adopt a free web host, your site
will have a domain name like http://www.freewebhost.com/youronlinecart.
But if you put yourself onto your customer’s shoes, don’t you think you
would feel it more safer to shop with something like
http://www.youronlinecart.com? The URL itself spells permanence and a
brand. And when you leave the things to your free web host, without
your own domain name, just imagine what an impression it would make
with so many ads on your site - that you are reluctant to spend money
on your own business and the worst part is these ads may include your
competitor too!! One more important thing is the search engine
perspective. When you don’t have a domain name of your own your URL
would be something like http://www.freewebhost.com/yourwebsite, but
with your own domain name it would be something like
http://www.yourwebsite.com. And the profit of the second URL is that
you can use the right keyword in the second URL helping your site to
rank higher. To make it more clear, the search engine look at the whole
domain and your site is simply a sub domain for them in the first URL
and your index.html page is not the home page of that particular
domain, even though it is your home page. So your SEO strategies are at
a twist at the beginning itself. Why make your job harder when you at
least have a fighting chance with your own domain name? Have you
ever thought that how could your own domain name help you in managing
emails? With a domain name of your own, you can set up an email account
anytime, for example [email protected]. And what I mean by
managing your emails with your own domain name is that -
1) You can set up lots of email addresses, as per your requirement. 2) You can forward your received messages to whichever email account you are using at the present, 3) When you change the address just redirect it to the one that you have set up.
And
when your customers could reach you with [email protected] or
[email protected] or [email protected], what they feel,
I hope you could perceive…….that they are dealing with an established
organization. Another important factor that I would like to
bring to light is that you have your URL printed on your cards,
brochures, folders, etc and when you plan to change your host, imagine
the turmoil and expense of reprinting everything once again! But when
you have your own domain name, your URL is constant, forever. If you
are blogger also, it is always favorable to host your own blog with
your own domain name, so that you don’t get confined by the
restrictions of the blogging sites. If you are a student, or
creating a website only for your craze of a hobby, than definitely the
free web hosts are a better option as there is no point of spending so
much on your domain name. But if you are an artist, a designer or a
craftsman, than may be you won’t want yourself to be seen with a free
web host! And if its for your own business, however small, you
definitely don't want to be seen on a free hosting site with the
irritating pop-up ads. One more point worth noticing is the way in
which the domain name registration fees are declining these days. They
are becoming affordable and cheaper day-by-day. Last, but not the
least, as to why you have your own domain name is authority and liberty. e2webhosts.com |