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Every business, small or large needs a website and a domain name. With billions of websites and rapidly growing, good domain names are either expansive or hard to come by. It takes long hours of reasearch spent online looking for the perfect domain name for your business. There are alternative solutions that are still attractive but much easier to find.

If you intend to sell a product or service online, a better alternative to using your company name as a domain name is to include a keyword . For example cheapdomains.com
A more common option now days is to use hyphens. Although people are skeptical about that, search engines pick up your main keywords when using this method. For example cheap-domains.com

If you decide to go with a domain name that is your company name and chances are it’s probably taken, consider using abbreviations or adding additional words. For example: webvisiononline.com

Now days more and more domain extensions are available. There used to be only few major ones like .com, .org, .net .gov .edu
Now there are .pro .mobi .tv .info .biz and more being constantly created.
Although you should buy a few of them for your business, aim at getting a .com extension. Search engines like those a lot more. Consider getting .com .net and .org or .info, all with the same name.

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Flash websites have been popular for quite some time now. With new features added by Macromedia (the maker of Flash) more websites are being developed in Flash only.

The benefits of Flash Websites:

Interaction:
Flash has a built in coding language called action script. The use of actionscript allow the programmer to create lively and attractive content that interacts with the visitors. The more interaction the website has, the better the chance of grabbing a visitors attention and therefore having that visitor coming back.

Standard website for compatibility:
By using Flash there’s no need to worry about cross-browser compatibility problems. CSS and HTML programmers are faced with challenges of adjusting their code for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome and more so that it displays the same across all the platforms. With Flash there’s no need to worry about different browsers or platforms. Once elements are placed, they will always stay in the same exact spot and look exactly the same.

Animation:
Flash has the ability to create animation. By using animation, a message is conveyed in a much easier and better way. It’s much easier to attract the viewers attantion. As far as size goes, Flash is a vector based animation program; meaning that the files size is small unlike movies or videos. Recently it’s possible to use Three Dimensional (3D) effects in flash created in 3D Animation programs such as Autodesk Maya.

The drawbacks of Flash Websites

Flash Player Requirement:
In order to view a Flash Website, visitors must have a proper Flash Player Plugin installed. Although now days the plugin is widely used in over 90% of computers, some are old version and they have to be updated.

Search Engine Optimization:
The biggest drawback of Flash is that since the content of the website is really sort of a “movie” instead of text like in html websites, search engine spiders cannot read or see it. Therefore search engines will not index the site properly. There are ways to improve, but they are not as good as those for HTML pages.

Flash Website Loading Time:
A flash website is really only one page and one “movie”. All the pages and content are in that one movie. This means that upon opening of the website, all the content has to be loaded. This is way different from html websites, where each page is separate and only loads when it’s open.

The rule of thumb is that if you have a type of business where you don’t worry about random search engine traffic then Flash is the best way to go for it’s interactivity and presentation. Otherwise an option is to have a flash header (only the top) on your website and the rest can be HTML.

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Search Engine Optimization is by no means an easy task. With millions of websites on the internet now days, the competition for the top spots on major search engines is really tough. Search Engine Optimization is the most important thing for a website to succeed.
As per Google, there are about 500 different factors in ranking your website. The major and most important one is backlinks to your website; the more other high ranking websites you have linking to your pages, the better your rank will be.
Another important factor is high quality original content. If your website does not contribute to the community in good and original information or content, you will not go far on the search engines.
Other factors in website search engine ranking include volume of traffic on your website and the quality of it.
Meta Tags are slowly declining in it’s effect. Although you should still put them in, don’t spend too much time on that part. Focus on your content first and then move on to marketing your website. Check out our section for Search Engine Optimization as well as Search Engine Marketing for more information.

A Domain Name is a unique identifier (a word) that represents a pointer to a specific web hosting. For example, in the URL http://www.google.com/, the domain name is google.com

You can register a domain name with a domain registrar such as GoDaddy (click here for great GoDaddy coupons and savings). ICANN oversees and regulates all domain names and their registrars.

Do I Need a Domain Name?

Domain Names are used to create an identity on the Internet as well as worldwide. Just look at Google and how famous the World Wide Web has made the company. It is know everywhere. A domain name represents your company name and is easy for people to find you. For example Sears, you type Sears.com and visit their website.

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Most online business owners start with little or zero money. They have to do a lot of things themselves starting from generating a product, creating a marketing strategy, and builing a website to promote their product. As their business grows they will see that their homa made website is not sufficient anymore to effectively promote their product.

If this sounds familiar familiar to you then chances are, that you are one of the people that started with zero money too. You are probably a lot less likely to pay someone for designing a website for you.

Whenever you hire a professional web designer to create a website for you, you are allowing your business to grow. By paying a little money, you can have a professional focut on the design and structure of the website and you can have more time to spend and be more focused on your actual business and marketing strategy.

Also as everyone knows problems always arise. By hiring a professional web designer, you can rely on them to fix it for you in a timely manner, as opposed to you getting to it when you have free time.

In the end, for a small investments you will get a professionally designed website that is search engine optimized and this in turn will drastically grow your business

If you need a great webdesigner, don’t hesitate, contact Webvision Online Today!