Q. How long does a domain name last?
A domain name normally lasts for two years. Some domains can be registered for ten years.
Q. What stops another business from obtaining a domain after two years?
We will notify you in plenty of time and ascertain your intentions for re-registration. We are given one months grace to re-register a domain name after the second anniversary. Obviously if you do not re-register before the end of the extension period your domain name will be available for another business to take.
Q. Why is my existing website getting a trickle of visitors from the search engines?
Well there are simple and easily rectifiable reasons for this.
- Your website pages might need to be modified 'behind the scenes'
to make them more interesting to the automatic software used by search
engines when they visit and index your page. Your visible body text
might need rearranging, the placement of images, image maps and links
might need a little tinkering.
There are very subtle changes that can be made without altering the look and feel of your site that you have strived to achieve, that will make all the difference in getting your site ahead of your competitors. - DIY - you may have done all of the website promotion tweaks recommended
by web promotion articles on the net and in magazines only to find
that your rankings have only slightly improved in some search engines
and you may have been dropped from others - what is going on?
It is most probably because all of the top search engines use their 'spider' programs to analyse a website in a completely different way. An optimisation technique successful for one engine, may be completely banned by another! It is very hard indeed to get on the first page of all the search engines with just one webpage filled with your popular keyword combinations. You need multiple entry pages targeted in different ways. - You may have been successful in getting onto the first page of a
search engine's results page for your selected keywords, but you still
have not seen a great increase in your web traffic, why? Well answer
these questions:
Are your title and description fields and first line of body text written to appeal, captivate, and compel your visitors?
Do you do enough to make the viewers curious to learn more about your company, products or services?
Or, have you got to the first page on a search engine by repeating keywords in funny combinations in these tags? Is this not a hollow victory? i.e. if you made changes to make your title and desription tags more appealing would you slip several pages in the results to the place where no surfer goes?
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