Tips On Choosing Long Domain Name Vs Short Domain Name

As the growth and popularity of Internet rises it also gave rise to the number of domain name or you can say billions of domain name. Now getting a short and meaningful domain name is just impossible or it can cost thousand of dollars since its owner will not going to sell it in original price for such a highly demanding domain name.
For past few years there is a greatest debate between the bloggers about choosing between long and short domain name. Choosing a domain is all up to you as each one has it own advantage and disadvantage the following tips can help you to choose the right option between the two.

Long Domain Names

The reason behind people choose to go for long domain name are since there are lack of short meaningful domain name  and the other reason is they want to target search engine.

Advantage : Long domain name can easily rank high on low competition keyword on search engine if it has keyword of the targeted keyword that you like to rank to for example if you have a site that give” free online games download” and you have domain name such as freeonlinegamesdownload.com it likely to rank higher than site as gamesdownload.com for keyword as “free online games download” for many years webmaster are using this strategy to rank higher on the search engine.The search engine gives greater value to the website which has targeted keyword in it since it gives the search engine an idea about what your website is all about.

Link building : As a webmaster you probably know the importance of backlinks and anchor text in terms of ranking on the serach engine most of the people likely to linkback to your website using your site name as their anchor text for example if you have got a website like achmegoods.com people will generally link back to your website using anchor text as   ”achme goods” this type of backlinks with targeted anchor text is important since it  is boosting your website weight for the term “acheme goods” on the search engine.

Disadvantage  : Long domain can be disadvantage in terms of loyal user or direct traffic [people who visit your website by typing your website name in their browser] since you have got a long domain name your users will likely to face difficult in typing your website or they can land on your competitors website due to typing mistakes.

Harder to remember : To visit your website people must remember your website name some people say it is hard to remember long domain name since it has got more words.It is easier to remember domain name “getit.com”  than domain name like “getthereintimefastandquickly.com”

Short Domain Name : Short domain names are generally use for branding purpose which means these domain name are not use to target any keyword and since they are easier to remember the main purpose of buying these domains are because companies want  people to remember them with their name like most common examples are yahoo, Google people know these companies with their brand name if you are thinking about cars automatically words like ford, Ferrari comes in our mind that’s the power of branding.

Conclusion :For any website whether it is big or small marketing plays a bigger role in success of a website since visitors are like blood of a website Short meaningful domain names are harder to find and without keyword it is important that you brand your website. Branding requires a lots of huge marketing budget if you doesn’t want to invest that much amount of money you can go for long keyword rich domain name and target search engine for traffic.