Posts Tagged ‘domain name’

Protect your website using several domain names, a dash makes the difference!

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

If you have a domain name made of several nouns, such as webgiraffe, you can protect your website by purchasing an equivalent domain with hyphens (e.g. web-giraffe).

By doing this, you will prevent someone else (competitors, mischievous person) from using and taking advantage of your business. Your clients may not all know your URL by heart and may type the wrong one, and end up on a website which is not yours! Furthermore, if the mischievous person carries out SEO activities, their website will rank better than yours when people search for your company.

React today and buy your other domain names!

Once you have purchased the other domains, set up redirections to the main domain name, so that no matter what people type (with or without dash), they will connect to your website.

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Local website, local hosting?

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

When designing a website for a specific country, a few parameters do matter:

1. Domain name and use of ccTLDs
2. The I.P. Address of the site’s web server
3. The language used in the domain name and file names of pages
4. The language used in the text of the site itself and defined in the relevant META tag
5. The language used by and location of sites linking to the web site.

View the full report:  The influence of server location on an international web site’s search engine ranking

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