In this article, I will discuss two critical ideas you have to consider when you start building a new website.
How to choose the right hosting provider
How to choose the right domain name
Choosing the right hosting provider
It’s from the great decision for you to choose hosting for your website.
- Speed of the web hosting provider
- It may surprise you that any search engine spider has a time-out period time. So if your web hosting provider is slow, this may affect of the pages that indexed. Not all your website pages will index.
- You can check your website speed by enter your domain name on
alexa, then click traffic stats, then click traffic rank. In this page you can see your website average load (speed) and compare it with the others.
- Reliability of the web hosting provider
- You couldn’t know when Google spiders will visit your website. If Google spiders visit it and find it down, this will affect negatively you’re ranking.
- You can participate with any website monitor service provider like pingdom and watchmouse to monitor your website and server.
- Operating system
- Most experts suggest to use Linux based web hosting than windows based
- Geographical Location
- Most experts suggest that you have to host your website in a web server in your country
or in the country which you’re most visitors from. you will gain to good results form
That:
- You will get good results with local Google search
- Your website load more quickly
- To detect the country of your web server provider company. You can check his website with http://whois.domaintools.com/domainname.com
- Resellers
- Avoid purchasing hosting service from resellers or re-resellers. It’s preferable to purchase hosting service from ultimate hosting provider. You can research about the most reliable web hosting providers from netcraft .
Choosing the right domain name
Once you choose good hosting provider. It’s the time to choose your domain name. It’s very important SEO tactic to include your targeted Keywords with the full URL path (domain name, hierarchy of the directories names and file name). So it’s a good idea to include the most important keyword with your selected domain name. If you try to typing any keyword into Google, You will find the most top 20 results have the keyword which you search for exist on the URL and highlighted with Bold.
Guidelines to choose a good domain name:
- Include your targeted keyword with the domain name
- Don’t register your domain name for just one year. Google grant more trust for domains which registered for a long time (5-10 years)
- Easy to read and easy to remember
- Avoid domain copyright infringement
- Your domain explain your business or services
Summary
Choosing the right hosting name and the right domain name is a good SEO practice. If your website loading slowly or sometimes goes down, you will lose a lot of customers and your business may fail. So, you must choose speed and reliable hosting environment. Choosing easy to remember and SEO friendly domain name will boost your website traffic and you will get more customers and money.
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