S.E.O and Domain Names: How They Affect One Another
Does the length of your website's website name registration affect search engine optimization and results? Who you buy web hosting from also plays a part in your SEO but that is a topic for another article.
Should you renew your site name for a long period of time? And if this is the case how long is long enough? If you would like to keep in front of the competition, then you could consider taking a look at the period of time the competition have registered their website names. If the competition have generally renewed their site names for one or two years, you might consider registering your web site name for 5 or 10 years.
While delaying your domain name’s expiry date might help your search engine listings, bear in mind that this may be only a tiny victory when it comes to search engine rankings.
Its good business sense to register a domain for at least 10 years. You do not need to cope with the process yearly process of renewing them each year. It’s best to get the site names that you want to keep for some time and renew then on a 5 to 10 year plan.
If your website name expires, there’s a fair chance that somebody will register your domain name immediately after it expires. If, for who knows what reason, you do not renew your domain name, someone watching a ‘watch list ‘ of expiring domain names will try to capitalize on the web business that you have built over the years. They know that there's potential website traffic they can have just by replenishing your old web site name. By renewing your web site name for a few years, your domain name will not expire for some time, and it will not be opened up to expired domain name consumers.
If you truly want to stay in front of the competition , you could consider registering or renewing your domain name for 100 years. Currently, Network Solutions (www.netsol.com) is the sole registrar offering the 100 year option, which costs $999.00. GoDaddy (www.godaddy.com), currently offers to replenish or register a website name for 10 years, at a reduction of $6.95 per year.
Yes, you can lose critical positioning in the search sites if you don't reregister your website name in time. You may have to start the S.E.O process all over again!
When you have your site name registered you have got to find the business website hosting or personal web hosting depending on what you're looking for.