@idomainappraisal, you couldnt be more wrong about Geo plus keywords. I am selling them just fine! Soooo, they are not dead and sale well if you know what to buy. I like to make sure that there are at least 25 and up end users. As you said Umerk, there are more than 1 Decaturs so you can market to more than 1 city.
I like to market to cities above around 300,000 people. To me though, it all depends on how many end users there are.
Unlike most here we are developers and the ax came down on lowly developed geokeywords a few years ago that's why you can find them for reg fees.
That doesn't mean an uninformed end user might think they can be value to them.
It's just not worth our time to do a large enough development on any city term without a client.
Years ago you could do a landing page and use a stock video and bang it would rate and it would sell easily.
Now, you need a ton of development and since most here are not developers that means a lot of money to do it right.
We prefer now to wheel a geo portal and that city will natural have a ton of pages since they're like mini directories, so now we just put a client on a city portal we own and manage a landing page for sem and seo purposes on our local geo portal.
So based on my experience in developing geo portals, a single term won't do anything and if you are doing well selling them great we cut over 10K of them from our inventory years ago.
Made life real simple for us.
You start to get into low end terms like landscaping and the companies in that industry are no big bucks companies normally so the end users contacting you do not have major money.
Now a professional term like dentist is nice but again, the development fees to really do a site right today outweigh trying to pop it without a client.
That doesn't mean a minor city dentist won't sell to an user for a minor sum like low xxxx
Since we're a developer our fees to do a site start at around 5K so we don't do low grade work, so to us selling premium work and real results and managed sem/seo/smo we see no reason to own such terms today, years ago we loved them, then google made them dead.
When you realize a company has to do 5K to 25K worth of development today to pop a site and stick it well for long term and it needs constant updating, the money is not in hustling low grade terms.
It's in actually helping local companies with seo/sem/smo which is much more money than anyone could hope to get for such a low end term.
My opinion but that doesn't mean you can sell them all day for low xxx to low xxxx
It's just not worth our valuable time.
