I think the advice from others is spot-on. Of course, in the future, you may want to consider coming up with an app name that is unique, and thus *can* have its own domain name. That will make it easier for people to find you, even if it redirects to a page on your main company website.
Of course no matter what, you want to make sure that people find your app when they do a google search for it. Some advice on that: Just be sure not to duplicate the content between the page on your company and the app page. In other words, don't have your app's home page showing up at http://www.foobarapp.com/ *and* http://mycompany.com/foobar/ .... That's duplicate content, which is not good for Google. Instead, do a 301 redirect (not 302 or something clever with meta tags or javascript) so that any links that you get to the app domain name feed through Google Juice to your main page for that app. Regards, Dan Wood On Aug 4, 2010, at 6:42 AM, Rick C. wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have a question regarding choosing a domain name. At this time I have only > one app on a domain/site named after my company. I tried before to name the > site after my app but it was difficult since the name was already taken. I > will soon be adding another app to the same site named after my company as > once again the domain with the same name as my new app is already taken. My > question is do you think having multiple apps on a company named website is > good enough? Or should I also have additional sites named after my apps that > maybe redirect to my company site to increase awareness? And if so how about > the naming part? Should I use something like "myapp.net" since the .com is > already taken? Or try to make a .com work for example "myappformac.com" or > similar? Thank you for the input. > > rc -- Dan Wood Twitter: http://twitter.com/danwood Karelia Software — Sandvox for the Mac http://www.karelia.com/ Those that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. — Benjamin Franklin ------------------------------------ MacSB email guidelines: http://tinyurl.com/2g55d6 Use MacSB-Talk for off topic messages: http://groups.google.com/group/macsb-talk Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/macsb/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/macsb/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
