Ok just bought a domain with 550,000 exact name monthly searches!!!

See you in one yr.

You bought a 550K 'exact' monthly searches domain for 3 bucks?? Would love to hear what name that is, ...if you don't mind sharing.

hawkeye said:

You bought a 550K 'exact' monthly searches domain for 3 bucks?? Would love to hear what name that is, ...if you don't mind sharing.

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Lol I'm torn. I want to tell. But if I do others will buy up all the other similar ones. Don't want to cut off my nose dispite myself. Or it could be another stupid quest. Time will tell. I've had 15 or so quests in my life time. 4 have panned out so far to pay my way through life. 9 were a waste of time and money. But they kept me from being bord at least.

Personally I'd like to know the extension :p

I bought a 1,500,000 exact monthly search domain for $4.99, but it's a .pw.

I found out it had that many searches after the fact, I bought the domain to link potential employers to my resume and portfolio, not for anything domain related.

DomainIdiot said:

Personally I'd like to know the extension :p

I bought a 1,500,000 exact monthly search domain for $4.99, but it's a .pw.

I found out it had that many searches after the fact, I bought the domain to link potential employers to my resume and portfolio, not for anything domain related.

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Sure I can do that. It is a .info. But it fits in this case because that's all it is - info. Plus all others were gone. But none being used. Just held. So wont be any competition for that exact name so should be good.

Wow 1.5 mil. What was that domain? How to breath air lol

I would like to know extension as well

"1.5 mil" Would have to be something people use everyday and search for everyday. Like maps or gas or food. Or a "how to" of some sort. Or a social network how to or link. Hmmm

Oh and FYI I just got it through goaddy normal channel. Not resale or anything. They are selling .info's for 2.99 right now

You get your adsense account approved yet?

johname said:

You get your adsense account approved yet?

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Yeah. Just added to my other site.

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Lol I'm torn. I want to tell. But if I do others will buy up all the other similar ones. Don't want to cut off my nose dispite myself. Or it could be another stupid quest. Time will tell. I've had 15 or so quests in my life time. 4 have panned out so far to pay my way through life. 9 were a waste of time and money. But they kept me from being bord at least.

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If you have a secret, don't tease everybody or put private whois on it. :talk:

I think it's easy to find your domain with some google searches. Am I wrong?

550,000 exact name monthly searches

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1 - make sure these are indeed 'exact' searches in the keyword tool, rather than 'broad'. Many new domainers incorrectly say exact but are looking at the broad search.

2 - it is actually quite common to find dot.info's still available with high exact search numbers; you can often buy them here in the marketplace for x or xx, they are cheap. Couple years ago I sold my few remaining dot.info's for $2 or 3 each, couldn't get any more for them... and they had exact searches ranging from 50K to 1.5mil. Even dot.net terms with large searches are dropping all the time now.

3 - with tens or hundreds of thousands of searches, it is extremely - not a little, but extremely - unlikely that you will develop a site that will get anywhere near page 1 of search engines. Highly unlikely to get it even into the top 50 page results. The strength of 'niche' term minisites is to find a domain that has strong enough searches that it will bring you good traffic, but not such huge searches that you have a ton of competition in getting your website high on the serps. The best minisite candidates were/are terms that get in the high hundreds to low thousands of monthly searches, and have low competition with other sites in the serps.

4 - you can still develop your domain into a minisite and it may still bring you a trickle of adsense income; but without doing a LOT of development, like spending a week or more of full time work on creating a nice site and dozens of quality original content, IMO you have no chance in receiving much traffic; remember that you're still competing with many well-developed websites that are competing for the 500K monthly searchers looking for your keywords. Even if those other developed sites aren't using 'exact match domains', they're still developed strongly and will still beat out weakly-developed exact match domain sites.

5 - google's search algorithm changes in the last couple years have made things extremely difficult for minisites to rank in serps. If you plan some major development and have an interest in the topic of your site personally, then keep going because it's out of personal interest. But if you plan on building a minisite solely to try reap adsense, you'll most likely be running on an uphill treadmill. Adsense earnings have also gone way down the last couple years - with that economy crash, there are fewer advertisers, with lower spending ceilings, utilizing fewer Adword keywords, and spending less on each click.

You can still do it; no harm in experimenting, and maybe you'll do it well enough to earn some income. But do it smart; don't just buy a large-search-term domain.info and expect to build a minisite with adsense and think it will start earning returns. It's a slow game, and if your dot.info beats out any other sites, it may still take the search engines months or years, if ever, to get your site to a position of strength.

Far more productive, if you're set on building minisites, to use niche dot.com's with more reasonable search numbers, like 500 - to 10K at the most. Then you'll have a chance. Not much of one... those of us who have good minisites, myself included, have seen a 50 - 80% drop in adsense income over the last few years. Hard to predict what the search engines will do with a site nowadays. I have a small one-page adsense-based site using a dot.com name that gets searched about 90K per month, and my site gets a lot of that traffic because it is on goog page 1... then I have another adsense-based site that is a niche term and has a dozen good content pages... and two years later I still can't get it to google page one, even though there's hardly any competition for it in serps.

If you're a good site builder you can usually predict how things will go... but it's still largely a crapshoot. Using a dot.info, with a 500K a month search term, building a small adsense based site... personally I feel would be a waste of time, beyond doing it as an experiment if you really have to test the waters for yourself

Good luck, prove me wrong

Oh, feel welcome to PM me the name; I could tell you right away if you have any good chance of making adsense income with it, and what kind of development you'd need for that. I've done hundreds of sites, for myself and others.

you said it is a .info......is the .com or other extension developed?

Nattydomain said:

you said it is a .info......is the .com or other extension developed?

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Thanks for the write up Bannen! All the other main extensions are gone but undeveloped. One other with same meaning and smaller domain but less of a used phrase is on page two. I've built enough to know. It will be a laser focused site and very helpful to those looking. So I predict top three. Worst case bottom of page one. As Banner said, I'll know in a year.

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I just looked on adsense after searching for the phrase and I see no mention of "broad search" or other? But I did notice I was only looking at desktop and laptop searches. So + another 150,000 including mobiles.

buyresaledomains said:

[/COLOR]I just looked on adsense after searching for the phrase and I see no mention of "broad search" or other? But I did notice I was only looking at desktop and laptop searches. So + another 150,000 including mobiles.

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He's referring to searching on adwords under Match Type for [Exact] instead of Broad or "Phrase"

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I just looked on adsense after searching for the phrase and I see no mention of "broad search" or other? .

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It's a check box on the left side, you might have to scroll down slightly. Uncheck broad, and check exact.

lothos said:

It's a check box on the left side, you might have to scroll down slightly. Uncheck broad, and check exact.

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Ahhh it wasn't showing on my ipad. Lol ok I just bought a broad search term then. Bummer. Exact is 4,200. Oh well the two letter word in between the two keywords is one that google tosses. So I'm confidant that it will still perform well. I'll still develop it. The only way to get more exact is to lose the middle two letter word (but no longer correct gramer or order) and that one has 14,000 exact.

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Ahhh it wasn't showing on my ipad. Lol ok I just bought a broad search term then. .

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Ok so I can go with a .ca ext (and its in California if that matters any) and get the higher exact phrase of 14,000 but like I said its sounds like ape talk. It's missing the connecter word. Regardless I assume its better to go with the higher exact phrase?

Example would be...

writtenbyauthor.ca (4,200)

VS

authorwritten.ca (14,000)

???

I know that order of the wording does not matter to google. But I assume it does if your going after exact wording?

Lmao john. I had a feeling you probably searched "broad" instead of "exact". It's happened to me a couple times since I'm so impulsive.

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exciting thread :D

So the point of your experiment, is to see whether EXACT MATCH DOMAINS that are well developed will rank on top and make money?

It's an old experiment, actually. Almost everyone here who are not pure domainers, have already been there, done that.

But it is good if you want to replicate it yourself and find out based on personal experience.

There's also a couple of threads here at Namepros, related to people talking about Exact Match Domains, and all the Panda stuffs. It's a recycling topic. You can get feedback from those threads too, because developers have always wondered and experimented about those monthly searches-type of domains for a long time now.

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Ok so I can go with a .ca ext (and its in California if that matters any)

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shenanigans! you're just having us on now right?