Re: co.za domain parking question

Colin Alston said on Tuesday, February 08, 2011 :
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Jaco van der Schyff 
<[email protected]>wrote:
> > I am interested in starting an online venture, but the name
> > I had in mind has already been registered
> 
> Domains are like women, if you can't find one that suits you try looking in
> a different country.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains

very bad advice, imho.

Unfortunately the popular search engines use your domain
name (which may be hosted in Iraq or wherever) as an set
indicator of where your business / you are and return you
traffic based thereon.

I have had many customers that have doubled their sales
after also/rather configuring a .co.za (instead of a .com - I can only
imagine how bad it would be if it would have been a co.uk etc.)

best advice still is Joe's advice: think out something unique like frogfoot 
and if you want the generic keyword in a name 1-wedding.co.za
can work just as well as wedding.co.za, maybe add your own
originality and call it white-wedding.co.za or myownwedding.co.za etc. etc.

At the end of the day it is all about content anyway as the keyword
value of only the name is just what it is.



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