The importance of having your own domain name

One of the problems I often hear is, "Do I really need my own domain name ?" There is only one word "yes ". If you use the free web hosting service to create a website, all the benefits are from the web hosting company. There are several reasons to explain why it is necessary to have your own domain name.

First, if you have your own domain name, then the website address will be http://www.yourcompany.com. If you use a free host to create a website, the website address is http://www.somefreewebsite.com/yoursite /. Which one sounds more professional? Which one is better remembered? Clear at a glance.

Second, the only way to make money online is to build a good reputation among customers. The first step is to have your own domain name. In this way, no matter what kind of products customers buy, they will feel very comfortable. They will think that they are dealing with a large and reputable company, rather than a temporary and untrusted company.

Third, if you have your own domain name, you can use the alias@yourcompany.com this format of composite Mail signature. You can use different roles and different email signatures, all of which point to the real email address. For example, a product or service-related email address can be a sales@yourcompany.com, a mailing address can be a editor@yourcompany.com, and a comment suggestion can be a feedback@yourcompany.com or a webmaster@yourcompany.com. Different roles have different email addresses, which not only simplifies the customer's email filtering program, but also leaves a deep impression on the customer. This is a large and reputable company, they will be very happy to do business with you.

Fourth, many search engines focus on a home page with a special domain name. For example, if all other points are the same, the homepage has a higher level than other pages because of a specific keyword. If you use the free host service, indexing an html webpage is the homepage of a website, not a domain name. Therefore, in these search engines, it is difficult to rank the top 20 or 30 websites, and the top 10 websites have really competitive keywords. Consider how much traffic will be lost?
Fifth, some search engines refuse to index websites that use the free host service. For example, if the site uses the free host service, if you submit the service to AltaVista, you will get an error message saying that the website has been submitted many times. However, if you submit a website with your own domain name, Altavista will say "the URL has been submitted and is being processed", and the rest will not be indexed to any website that belongs to the free host service, this means that the website has been indexed. Do you believe this?
Sixth, if the website is a free host website, you will find it difficult to be like Yahoo! Although Yahoo never acknowledges that it does not include commercial websites that use free hosts. But in fact, if the site is indexed by Yahoo, it is a miracle. Even if you have your own domain name, it is not very easy to be indexed by Yahoo. So, let alone the difficulties.

If you do not have your own domain name, do you want to have one now? Compared with the profit, the annual fee paid for your domain name is very small.