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 WebsiteHow to Get More Orders Through Google SEO? Most foreign trade practitioners may be encountering this for the first time.build my 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 call a web address. People will access your website through the domain name, so a good domain name is still very important for a foreign trade website.(For building websites in China, domain names are not particularly important anymore, as most traffic in China has shifted to mobile devices, and you don't see the domain name.)

How to Obtain a Domain?

Domain names are a digital resource open for registration, so we only need to register one. For an English website, you should definitely look for a foreign domain registrar to register. You can refer to the domain registration tutorial written by Naiba previously for selection.

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

What Kind of Domains Should Be Avoided?

A domain name that someone else has registered and used, leaving a bad impression, for example:

1. A domain name that was used for a spam website and penalized by search engines.
2. A domain name that was used for mass emailing and blacklisted by some organizations.

How to determine if the domain name you want to register has the situations mentioned above? It's very simple. Foreign trade websites generally focus on Google SEO, so we directly search the domain name you plan 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 view the domain history through the website http://web.archive.org/. To check if the domain has been blacklisted by organizations, you can directly query it through the websites below. A new domain generally won't have records. Check if the domain 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 Select a Domain 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 a company brand name.

These two approaches to selecting a domain name are different.If you choose based on industry relevance, it's best for your domain name to contain keywords related to your business content.For example, if you want to do car charger, then we can consider including the term 'car charger' in the domain name, such as carchargerchina. However, you'll actually find that the domain name 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 spots and attracting traffic. Alibaba gathers internet traffic to its platform through some SEO and other methods, then distributes traffic to each store according to platform fees. As for choosing a brand name, it is usually only recommended for large, well-known companies to choose this way.For foreign trade SOHO professionals, choosing a domain name containing keywords is more friendly for Google SEO.For foreign trade websites, Naibabiji recommends that you choose a domain name containing product keywords to build your website. This is because many people in foreign trade do not know SEO and have no concept of SEO. Having keywords in the domain name already invisibly helps you with part of the SEO work, giving your website a certain advantage in ranking.  

How to Build a Website After Choosing a 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 Naibabiji Foreign Trade Website Building Service.

SiteGround is a shared hosting service provider as famous as Bluehost. Many people engaged in foreign trade use it. The advantage is that it is simple to use; the disadvantage is that the price is similar to that of a VPS, and personalized functions are still 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 advantage is better performance and a higher degree of customization. As for choosingNaiba Foreign Trade Website Building Servicethe disadvantage is that you yourself cannot enjoy the process of tinkering with the website; the advantage is that you don't have to worry about anything. I will handle everything for you, and you only need to be responsible for filling the website content to have your own Foreign Trade Independent Website.