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The way that your customer finds your website is through your domain name so the name that you choose is very important. Even if you have the best web hosting service going, it won’t matter at all unless your visitors can find your site. That is why the domain name you choose must be something that will stick in the visitors mind once they have left your site. The tips below will help you to decide the best and most effective domain name for your business.

- Choose a name that is short and memorable. The name should be related to the product or service that you are providing so that the visitor can make an association between the two. For instance you might find you have problems choosing an available domain name if your product is selling vitamins. If your company is called “Bear Vitamins” then you might be able to get the domain name bearvitamins.com; this would be easy for customers to remember.

- It is better to choose extensions that people will remember such as .co.uk or .com even though some will be more expensive than others. Even though it will probably cost you more money it is better to choose the .com extension because it is the one that most people recognise.

- And if you can afford to buy all the variations of extensions associated with your domain name then this is a good idea to do this. This means that as well as buying bearvitamins.com you would also be buying bearvitamins.net or bearvitamins.co.uk. That means that nobody will be able to use your domain name and then steal your customers. If you are only a small business then this should be less of a problem.

If you follow the advice above you might be able to make sure that you choose a domain name that will work for your business. A good domain name combined with quality web hosting can really benefit your website; remember though that you will still need to provide quality content as well.

Whenever you make your decision to enter the big, bad world of internet marketing, you should really have hosting sorted out. The web hosting world can be a confusing one though for a newbie. An example of this could be coming across free web hosting or even dedicated servers while searching different options.