TEN GOOD REASONS TO REGISTER A DOMAIN NAME TODAY - Search engine positioning...
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4. SEARCH ENGINE POSITIONING
If you get a domain name contains keywords that describe your
site's topic it can help boost your search engine rank (and thus
help you get more visitors).
5. SEARCH ENGINE INDEXING
Search engines can sometimes be sensitive beasts. For example,
they don't like being spamdexed with lots of junk pages, and to
stop it they either penalise sites which contain junk pages, or
may place limits on the maximum number of pages that can be
indexed per domain.
If you don't have your own domain name, other people's web sites
who simply share the same hosting service with you, can cause
your site to drop down the search engine results - or even
disappear from search engines completely!
On the other hand, if you have your own domain, you won't have
these kinds of problems: you're responsible for and only affected
by your own web site's content.
6. DIRECTORIES
Lots of folks don't consider a site serious, if it doesn't have
its own domain name - and that includes some directory editors.
Go look for yourself in Yahoo! and see how many commercial sites
you can find which don't have a domain name... Answer: Not many.
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