Purchasing a forwarding domain forwards visitors to your website, and is an easy way to increase the usability and ease of use of your site. If you have a long URL that's hard to remember or type, purchasing a forwarding domain is a simple solution to your problem.
Domain forwards can result in more visitor traffic and much better branding for your web based business, on your business cards, your online profiles, and anywhere else where people might see your website URL and want to remember it.
Domain forwarding, URL redirection (URL forwarding), is a technique for making a web page available under more than one URL address. When a web browser attempts to open a URL that has been redirected, a page with a different URL is opened.
Reasons to Use a Forwarding Domain
Using a forwarding domain isn't expensive, and the benefits far outweigh the minimal cost of purchasing a domain. Here are just a few ideas of what you can do with your forwarding domain.
Shorten your web address (URL) by purchasing a domain and changing the forwarding address to your super-long URL. For example, your website is yourdomainthatistoolongtoremember.com, and you'd like to give visitors an easier way to type this in. Purchase anything that relates to your site that people will remember, like shortdomain.com, and your customers won't have a tough time typing it in.
- Easier advertising on business cards, flyers, and on the web
- Better branding for your website/business
- Easier to remember name