Did Google kill domaining?

[Krane65]

I didn't realize EMD doesn't matter anymore. This sucks. Why is everyone so hell bent on people not being able to make money off of domain names. It's no different than people hoarding other things and selling them for a profit... That along with the new gtld's is the final nail in the coffin IMO. Now it's just time for the burial and funeral.

 

[JB Lions]

 

[equity78]

That was great JB.

 

[AEProgram]

Since the start of domaining there has been a new "final nail in the coffin" for domaining announced almost monthly.

Yet domain sales are doing great as you can see weekly on the many sites who report on them.

The problem is you have many people registering these so called brandables that sound like: Chumsilio.com Crapilsy.com Emokinoki.com Emshly.com Poopsio.com and when they can't sell them they blame the industry.

 

[tomcarl]

I never got mad about the Google's decision about EMDs. Although not the best thing for domainers, it wasn't fair for someone taking the time and effort to put out quality content on a topic and then some noob or spammer handreg'd an EMD and outranked you by pages with little or no content.

EMDs still hold SEO value IMO just not as much as they once did. Btw, Bing/Yahoo seems to be working on Google's old ways of ranking. They still love EMDs and can be used as a selling point to end users. Every EMD I threw a wordpress blog on became 1st result. Another reason for domainers to prefer Bing

 

[Magicpig2]

I didn't realize EMD doesn't matter anymore. This sucks. Why is everyone so hell bent on people not being able to make money off of domain names. It's no different than people hoarding other things and selling them for a profit... That along with the new gtld's is the final nail in the coffin IMO. Now it's just time for the burial and funeral.

You're not going to get much sympathy on here regarding your thoughts on the demise of the domain industry! I think deep down alot of people are concerned that their future revenue is going to be affected by the changes to search and by the new extensions, and personally I think all domainers should be concerned, but the proof will be in the pudding over the years to come....

 

[tomcarl]

When one door closes another one opens. I'm personally not worried because I understand evolving with the times.

NYC is the most expensive and crowded places to live in the US, I don't see New Jersey's popularity growing and becoming the next best thing, or any other nearby cities, rather rent's continue to go up in nyc.

If domain names are virtual real estate, .COM is where the action is. .whatevers are like owning a nice property in the outskirts of town but everyone rather have that prime location in Times Square.

 

[N-A]

NYC is the most expensive and crowded places to live in the US, I don't see New Jersey's popularity growing and becoming the next best thing, or any other nearby cities, rather rent's continue to go up in nyc.

Are you saying invest in .NYC or real-estate?

 

[tomcarl]

Neither, lol. Simply comparing the two: Real-life real estate and domains commonly being referred to as 'virtual real estate'. If that 'virtual real estate' argument holds true and If domain names are honestly seen as what they are commonly defined and pitched as for years then I'd think a Premium .COM would be comparable to a prime location in Manhattan which only goes up in value every year despite startups and businesses having a wide variety of other places to operate.

.XYZ = the projects. You can get a nice apartment for cheap.

You'll always have people that will settle for cheaper alternatives/knock-offs, none of them ever put the Real McCoy out of business.

I don't think Nike panics every time a new Basketball star put out a new shoe on Adidas or Reeboks, even if they look cooler and sound better on paper.

Jordans will always sell the best.

lol I can keep going with it.

 

[disaac81]

.COM as others have said will always be sought after. Then you have .net which seems to be doing well too but just not AS well, its kind of like coms little brother (or sister). Apart from those two, depending on where you are, then the local area for targeted names, here .co.uk is king for local search, although the new .uk might change that in 3 or 4 years... who knows.

.tv and .mobi also come in for budget options or relevance (ie terms very suited to a .tv), but then you risk holding on to these names for quite sometime.

I have bought some other tlds, but now consider that maybe a mistake.

 

[Voodoomoodoo]

I'm a total noob - please explain, like i'm 5, what is EMD?
*braces myself for flame...*

 

[Magicpig2]

'Exact Match Domain'

ie KitchenDoors.com or ItalianWines.com

 

[tomcarl]

I'm a total noob - please explain, like i'm 5, what is EMD?
*braces myself for flame...*

You put out a good and useful tool for the domain industry and don't know what EMD means, that's either an Epic Fail or Epic Win lol

 

[AEProgram]

'Exact Match Domain'

ie KitchenDoors.com or ItalianWines.com

worth adding that

DoorKitchen
and
KitchensDoor

Is not an EMD

 

[Voodoomoodoo]

You put out a good and useful tool for the domain industry and don't know what EMD means, that's either an Epic Fail or Epic Win lol

Probably epic fail :P
I genuinely didn't know.

 

[biggie]

my emd's still get traffic and earn $

 

[RU]

Source: seobook.com

 

[SearchEngineZ]

EMD domains will always help your search ranking, but ONLY IF you don't do anything spammy.

The reason why domain keywords will always be a factor is because you only get one shot. The words you choose for your domain are your singular expression of what your site is all about. Yes, it might be three keywords that mean something collectively, but it's pretty much the only place in your site (page title almost the same but can be longer...) where you have to be concise.

It's a shortcut for search engines to decide the topic of your site. Or the name of your brand.

 

[AEProgram]

EMD domains will always help your search ranking, but ONLY IF you don't do anything spammy.

The reason why domain keywords will always be a factor is because you only get one shot. The words you choose for your domain are your singular expression of what your site is all about. Yes, it might be three keywords that mean something collectively, but it's pretty much the only place in your site (page title almost the same but can be longer...) where you have to be concise.

It's a shortcut for search engines to decide the topic of your site. Or the name of your brand.

The entire spammy thing is no longer valid, if it was imagine the madness, you have 10 competitors on google you can spam their sites using gsa or whatever and get them sandboxed.

I can outline a huge part of googles algorithm based on comparing results from update to update but dont have much time now.

1 spam as much as you want, but if all you got is spam you are toast
2 over anchoring, one of the silliest things people do, there is an argument of what seems natrual but some say only 5% should be anchored
3 duplicate content promoting your site
4 links only to your homepage, argument as to ratio but another silly mistake many make
5 huge burst of backlinks then total silence will get you flying down in results
6 lots of backlinks all over and 0 social media mention = google knows your bs

slow and steady wins the race, a minimum of 6 months would be needed before anyone sees any real results off SEO and thats on an avg keyword

I dont do SEO as a business, could care less either way

 

[DnEbook]

i would rather the subject of my business on my business card or on a sign rather than squabbledocdo.com
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Hooray for Emd's