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Elijah James
When it comes to domain names, you may find that owning a number of them is the best way to go. Online sales and marketing is one of the most competitive markets currently, and you may find that there are millions of websites just like yours that are trying to make a buck by taking advantage of the online shopping craze. If you are looking into getting started doing business online, you will find that the domain name of your website is one of the most important things to get right. Why is the domain name so important? Imagine that the internet is like New York. In the large city, there is foot and vehicle traffic throughout the city, but not everyone goes to all the parts of the city. Those living in the Bronx may rarely stray to Manhattan, and even fewer of them go out to SoHo or the Tribeca area. Imagine that your website is like a tiny store in the back alleys of the Bronx, and there is little chance that people other than the residents of your neighborhood will ever see the store. Seeing as you are not rich enough to place your store on Madison Avenue, it is highly unlikely that you will ever get as many customers as you may want. However, imagine that you could place signposts all around the city informing people that there is a store in the Bronx that sells exactly what they want at such a great price that they would be stupid to pass up the opportunity. These signs will direct people to visit your store, and you will find that your business will increase. Owning domain names is exactly like setting up signposts around the internet that will direct people to your site. Your primary domain name is like the sign over your shop that lets people know where you are, but you will find that a single sign is rarely enough to get more than a fraction of the customers that you want for your store. If you can use SEO techniques to advertise and publish your domain names all over the internet, you will find that more people are able to find out about your tiny backwater website and click on it in order to visit it. This is the secret to increased web traffic, but this is only one of the purposes of owning domain names. When you own one name, there is a high risk that your competitors will choose the other domain names that sound or look just like yours. When people try to type "yourwebsite.com" but end up typing "yurwebsite.com" accidentally, you may find that your competitor will have purchased that misspelled domain name and is stealing all of your clients. If you want to be successful online, you will find that owning a number of domain names is the way to go. The more names you own that are similar to your primary domain, the more likely it will be that people will type in one of the names and be directed to your site.
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