A website alias is a part of the website name that is used to access a particular website. For example, www is a common alias that is put before all website names. Alias in the normal world is used to refer to a particular person or place with another name that is popularly known, similarly on the web, Web alias is used in order to represent some other web page name. This is an important part of web development.
In fact website developers take advantage of domain aliases as they direct a wrongly typed web address to the website address that they want to promote. Domain Aliases allows you to assign more than one domain name to one web site with Action you can have an unlimited number of domains pointing to a single web site. This is also a very common technique used be website designers for the search engine optimization of a website as well. This is done by using the most popular keyword in the website alias name, this makes the domain name search engine friendly and hence when a person types the keyword there are higher chances that he/she will be redirected to the website designers’ website. This method of promotion is a white hat technique and has proven to be quite effective as well.
For example, if the website designer has a domain called mydomainn.com set up as an alias to the hosting account called myotherdomain.com then anyone who enters mydomain.com will automatically be redirected to myotherdomain.com.
If you have more than one domain name you can select the appropriate domain from the drop down list. In case there are a large number of domains you can use the powerful search feature. Many web designers use more than one alias and try to get in a lot of attention, it is probably one of the most prolific methods of promotion in recent times.