Thank you all for the replies. Since I'm just using a company site at the moment it's hard for me to compare the difference. But I'll definitely use all of this advice and if I decide to add additional sites to increase awareness I'll be sure to do it in the right way. Thanks again,
rc On Aug 4, 2010, at 11:27 PM, [email protected] wrote: > HI Guys, > Just to add my 2p to the matter. Individual Domain names work for SEO, I(in > my non macsb life) have and have seen it used to greatly improve Google > search engine rankings. The trick (along with the usual SEO stuff) is to get > your most popular search term as a domain. So for instance myappformac.com is > good. As far as I can tell this is as google assigns a weight to the domain > name, one that you can easily profit from. > > A good idea is to build a micro site around your app on the app specific > domain. This should be a few(~4) sales and info pages, preferably branded to > look like your main site, in fact I simply reuse any HTML templates that you > have. This helps to maintain the corporate identity across applications. It > should also link back to your main site. > > There is an article on 47Hats regarding this same issue, > http://www.47hats.com/2009/07/optimizing-search-engine-rankings-with-microsites/. > > > Thanks, > > -John > > > On 4 Aug 2010, at 14:42, 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 >> >> > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > MacSB email guidelines: http://tinyurl.com/2g55d6 > Use MacSB-Talk for off topic messages: > http://groups.google.com/group/macsb-talk > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
