How to choose a domain name for a Foreign Trade Independent Website to avoid pitfalls and gain more SEO advantages

How to build a foreign trade independent websiteand get more orders through Google SEO? For most foreign trade practitioners, it might be their first timebuilding your own websiteWhen it comes to building a website, domain names are indispensable. Therefore, this article introduceshow to choose a domain name for a self-built foreign trade website and which domain names to avoid。 A domain name is what we commonly refer to as a website address; others will access your website through the domain name. Hence, a good domain name is still very important for a foreign trade website.(In China, domain names are not particularly important for websites because most have shifted to mobile devices, and you don't see the domain name.)

How to obtain a domain name?

Domain names are a digital resource open for registration, so we only need to register a domain name. For English websites, it's definitely best to register with a foreign domain name registrar. You can refer to the domain name registration tutorial written by Naiba for guidance on selection.

• Tutorial on Registering a Domain with the Foreign Domain Registrar Namesilo

What kind of domain names should be avoided?

Domain names that have been registered and used by others, leaving a bad impression, for example:

1. Used by others for spam websites and penalized by search engines.
2. Used by others for mass emailing and blacklisted by some organizations.

How to determine if the domain name you want to register has the aforementioned issues? It's very simple. Foreign trade websites generally focus on Google SEO, so we can directly search the domain name you intend to register on Google to see if there are any records. A clean new domain name will not show any results on Google. If you find some records for the domain name, you need to carefully examine what the content is. You can check the domain name history through the website http://web.archive.org/. To check if the domain name has been blacklisted by organizations, you can directly query it using the following websites. New domain names generally have no records. Check if the domain name is blacklisted for email: https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx For more security, you can also check if it has been flagged by antivirus software at https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/url

How to choose a domain name for a foreign trade website?

There are two suggestions when choosing a domain name for a foreign trade website:

1. Choose a domain name related to the industry;
2. Choose the company brand name.

These two directions for choosing a domain name are different.If you choose based on industry relevance, it's best for your domain name to contain keywords related to the business content you are engaged in.For example, if you want to make car chargers, then we can consider a domain name that includes the term 'car charger', such as carchargerchina. However, in reality, you'll find that the domain carchargerchina.com has already been registered by Alibaba. Directly accessing it will redirect to Alibaba International Station. Do you know why Alibaba registered it? This is one of their strategies: to batch register valuable domain names related to categories on Alibaba and redirect them to their own website, occupying the space to attract traffic. Alibaba aggregates internet traffic to its platform through SEO and other methods, then distributes traffic to each store according to platform fees. When choosing a brand name, it is generally only recommended for large, well-known companies to do so.For foreign trade SOHO professionals, choosing a domain name that includes keywords is more friendly for Google SEO.For foreign trade websites, Naiba recommends that you choose a domain name containing product keywords to build your website. This is because many people in foreign trade are not familiar with SEO or have no concept of it. A domain name containing keywords inherently helps with part of the SEO work, giving your website a certain advantage in rankings.  

How to build a website after selecting a good domain name?

Now that you have a domain name, how should you build a website? There are three methods:

1. Use SiteGround managed shared hosting to build it;
2. Use a foreign VPS to build it;
3. Choose Naiba's Foreign Trade Website Building Service.

SiteGround is a shared hosting service provider as famous as Bluehost, used by many people in foreign trade. Its advantages are ease of use, while its disadvantages are that the price is similar to that of a VPS, and personalized features are still somewhat limited. The disadvantage of building with a foreign VPS is that you need to learn how to use a VPS to build a website yourself. The advantages are better performance and a higher degree of customization. As for choosingNaiba Foreign Trade Website Building Service, the disadvantage is that you miss out on the process of tinkering with the website yourself. The advantage is that you don't have to worry about anything; I handle everything for you. You only need to focus on filling the website with content, and you'll have your own Foreign Trade Independent Website.