Google Plus Is an Example of Why Domains are Critical to Business

Google Plus is a social network the launched in 2011. It was the third attempt by Google to enter the social media landscape, after Google Wave and Google Buzz failed.

It is the latest casualty of many social media networks that have failed or are still online but exist in anonymity, such as MySpace.

At one time MySpace was bigger than Facebook and a fierce competitor.

Anyone that had spent time and money creating, updating, and marketing their pages on those social media platforms, has found their work deleted. Time and money wasted. Imagine if you had hundreds of business cards with the social media page(s) printed on them. All of a sudden they became useless:

Build Your Brand on a Domain Name Rather Than Social Media

Having your own business domain name allows you to create a unique brand and build on that brand over months and years. It makes more sense to grow your own brand than to help a social network grow theirs by promoting their domain instead of yours.

If a social network stops sending you customers due to policy changes, popularity goes down, or simply ceases services, then your content and lead generation can still operate via your website and domain name.

By building your brand on a domain name you are not limited to using any single social network. You can use all the currently popular social networks to send you traffic. That traffic can turn into repeat traffic and leads. Visitors can return simply by remembering your domain name. Whereas this is more difficult if you only rely on your social media page(s) which you have less control over and are more difficult to remember.

Building brand equity is extremely difficult to do with social media pages because visitors will always see the social network’s branding first. With a domain name and a website, you can create brand awareness that will continue to increase in value in terms of advertising, sales, and exit strategy.

The reasons to use a good domain name to create your brand are overwhelming. For example, with a domain name and a website you can plug into traffic analytics and tools not possible with social media pages, which have limited stats by comparison.

With social media pages you will not get any type-in traffic which can be more valuable than traffic that comes from links or Web searches. It is also easier to rank for different keywords with an aged domain name and a well-developed website. So you will get more traffic from Web searches and not be dependent on a social network for all your visitors. The flow of which can suddenly stop or be significantly reduced.

If you build your business on a strong domain name, you will build instant credibility in the minds of visitors. Very difficult to accomplish with social media pages that are free and anyone can create one.

And the list goes on.