Aug 09
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Promoting your online pages
Your own web address/domain name makes it easy for your friends and family to access your FaceBook, Twitter etc. If you are a job seeker then it is equally easy for your potential employer to remember you and to seek out your professional profile.
The default addresses that FaceBook once offered were hard to remember and not intended for human reading. You should at least try to register your own FaceBook name. But for many this is not a reality. Likewise sites such as LinkedIn offer personalised addresses but if you have a common name or are not the first person to register your name then you will be left with a decision to keep the default address or be creative with the default address by using first initial,last name or lastname,firstname etc. The later suggestions are not very effective at all.
Registering your own domain name is cheap and an effective method for people to remember your address and can be used to access all of your online pages. There are many options for personal domains names such as .me , .pro, .com . Choosing the right memorable domain name is important.
Those that do have their own domain often use it ineffectively by:
(a) Use it to go to one of their sites as opposed to all of their sites.
(b) The domain name goes to a social media site but the address shows the social media address and not the domain name.
Effectively use your own domain name.
Firstly ensure that your domain name provider offers redirection and sub domain services freely of charge. If they do not, change your provider.
Single site
If you have one site say at My Sapce then point your domain name to that site and remember to make sure that only your domain name appears in the browser window and not the other complicated address.
Multiple sites
You should use sub domains. A sub domain is any relevant word you think of that is added before the main part of your domain name. Net Mania sub domain for its FaceBook Fan Page is http://FaceBook.NetMania.co.nz. Thus making it relevant by using the word FaceBook and easy to remember. DO this for all of your social networking pages.
