CaloriesHowMany.com Suggestions

[codazoda]

I purchased CaloriesHowMany.com in order to try to sell it. Google AdWords Keyword Tool says that the exact phrase [calories how many] gets 2.2 million searches per month. It shows the same number for [how many calories] however, so maybe that's not the best tool.

I bought the domain 6 months ago and put a Wikipedia article (with permission) about your bodies caloric intake requirements. The site is getting 3 hits a month.

Did I use the wrong tool to calculate keyword popularity? Should I develop this site more, maybe with a weekly blog, and try to increase the traffic? Was this domain a bad first choice and I should try again?

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Even though I used square brackets, Google still told me the "broad" result numbers. When I use the "[exact]" option it's 210. Maybe that explains my crappy traffic? Or, do all new domains have crappy traffic and you have to build them up?

 

[nielsencl]

Ok, with the new version of the tool, it seems to ignore your use of [] to get exact matches. There are checkboxes on the lower left to also see phrase and exact matches, but you have to do a search first, then they should show up so you can use them.

Sadly, there are the counts I am seeing:

Calories How Many 2,240,000
"Calories How Many" 1,000
[Calories How Many] 210

When I first saw the domain, I thought it was not so good, because the words are not what someone would naturally say, like "How many calories?". This is a domain that only Yoda would love.

But this does not mean you can't make a nice site out of it and do well. I would put a title on the site that says, "Calories, How Many?" or something like that that looks interesting and not like bad English.

The nice thing is that your domain does have good keywords and someone may actually search with the words in that order and in checking I see that it's a good partial match for searches like "calories how many per day" and "calories how many do i need", so your site should have some pages that use those for the title and have SEO to help them rank for the phrase.

Even if the search numbers were better, I figure that a domain will only get 1%-2% of the total traffic from direct type-ins, if that. Developing is really the way to go and I think the domain has some hidden qualities that will work for you.