sales 5 Google Tricks for Domainers

If you are like me, you'll be using Google for a lot of your outbound sales research. There are a few little tips that I'd like to share with you that may help you to find a few more qualified end users.

1. Location matters
I live in the UK, so on a regular Google page, the results I see are tailored to my location, meaning that I miss out on some important leads based abroad. To avoid this, I use MyGoogleHomepage.com and search individual country Google results (a full list can be found here). I usually check Google USA, Google Canada, and Google Australia at the very least. There are no doubt other ways to search different countries, but this is a very simple method that I use.

2. Use "inurl"
Domain sales often originate from someone using a similar name to your own. This is why the "inurl" tag can be important. If you have a domain name with a popular keyword, this could be very useful. Let's say that you're selling the domain name HomeInsurance.com. You need to type in inurl:homeinsurance on Google, and the search engine will give you results from URLs containing your keyword.

3. Use "intitle"
In a similar vein, you may choose to target companies using your domain's keywords in their page title. If a company prominently uses your domain's keyword(s) in their title, then there is a chance that the company may also be interested in your domain name. I'll carry on with the HomeInsurance.com example. You will type in intitle:home+insurance to see web pages containing those keywords within their title tags.

4. Omit a keyword
This is useful when you need to omit a keyword from your web search results. Let's say you're searching for Home Insurance, but most results are based around the phrase House Insurance, then you simply need to use a - in your search query. Here's an example based around the Home Insurance scenario: Home Insurance -House. This will ensure that any result mentioning the word "House" will not be shown. This can be used with the "intitle" search trick mentioned in #3.

5. Search a specific site
If you're researching a specific person within a company, or trying to dig up more information on a company, then use the "site:" search option. For example, if you're trying to find a specific person's LinkedIn profile, you could use Google: site:linkedin.com "Person's Name" to find results from LinkedIn.com mentioning a specific person's name.

If you have any Google tips of your own, feel free to share them below.

Another tip to make you smile: Google "zerg rush"
More fun: Google Search Easter Eggs and Google Hoaxes

 

[DeliDomains]

Sweet, there are so many simple solutions we choose to ignore …. Thanks much.

 

[Vinod R]

Thank you I knew some of them, but rarely used.

 

[pdevananth]

Cool tricks...Thanks....

 

[James Iles]

You're welcome @pdevananth!

 

[cocaseco]

Very useful and a great reminder. I had seen some of these before and completely forgot how super useful they are. Excellent post.

 

[James Iles]

Thanks @cocaseco!

 

[NameKraft]

Very handy tips!

 

[dnsolutions]

This is great info, especially for a domaining novice like me. Thanks James.

 

[Templr]

Yeah James all really useful, great post. It's tips like these etc that omit investors from spending a monthly subscription cost on estibot for example (Not for valuation, as that's not proven on any grounds.)

Some products are great, but others are just pointless. So these free tool tips are essentials.

 

[James Iles]

Thanks @DotDigi

 

[James Iles]

Thanks @DotDigi

 

[4Lseller.com]

Nice tips to find buyers!

 

[Skyvisum]

Thanks for the info.

 

[deflee79]

Cool man thanks!

 

[discobull]

Also use Site:keywords.* to find sites which are indexed by google and have domain names with different extensions for the target keywords. For example the search might turn up sites such as keywords.cc , keywords.net, keywords.org, etc.. If you owned keywords.com, this would be a good way to find potential buyers for your domain.

 

[elevator]

Thanks they are old but still working fine. Nice reminder. Cheers.

 

[elevator]

Sorry I forgot to inform you that I have achive your article for reference. Thanks and cheers.

 

[JyotiG]

Thank you so much for sharing these tips with everyone

 

[pablohc86]

@jamesiles great post, congrats!

i've always got the issue about the point:
1. Location matters

could you link other way to research ads also for other country?
because also if i go for example on google.co.in for indian ads, i only see ads for my location.

 

[discobull]

@jamesiles great post, congrats!

i've always got the issue about the point:
1. Location matters

could you link other way to research ads also for other country?
because also if i go for example on google.co.in for indian ads, i only see ads for my location.

Not sure if this is what you're asking, but if you wanted to get results for only a specific country code extension you could google it as follows:

keyword(s) site:*.co.in

This would only yield results where the domain extensions are .co.in. Obviously substitute whatever CC is of interest.

 

[waqq]

You may also try Google keyword tool for know CPC, exact search etc....

and Google trends for know how popular this keyword

If u buying droping, old. expire domain....u must to check legal past history for the reputation of the domain from archive.org

ex: https://web.archive.org/web/20030613063450/http://namepros.com

you can use many method for before buying good domain....

[sorry for English]

 

[pablohc86]

Thanks for the answers but my question is different. I want to know the ads for a given keyword for a country in order to understand which company is paying for a specific keyword in a specific country.
With the point 1 mentioned by the author of the article you can do that only for Canada, USA, Australia and UK.
I'm interested on a way for also other countries

 

[Joseph Green]

Thanks for the answers but my question is different. I want to know the ads for a given keyword for a country in order to understand which company is paying for a specific keyword in a specific country.
With the point 1 mentioned by the author of the article you can do that only for Canada, USA, Australia and UK.
I'm interested on a way for also other countries

KeywordSpy.com or SpyFu.com might help you with that.

 

[discobull]

Thanks for the answers but my question is different. I want to know the ads for a given keyword for a country in order to understand which company is paying for a specific keyword in a specific country.
With the point 1 mentioned by the author of the article you can do that only for Canada, USA, Australia and UK.
I'm interested on a way for also other countries

To see the adwords ads that appear in a given country, your IP address needs to be from that country. You could probably fool Google into displaying those ads for you by using a free plugin from hola.org. Their plugin allows you to change your IP address to that of a different country simply by choosing your desired country from a drop down list. I've never tested it on Google but it should work in theory.