Domain Name Purchase Advice

[esmaret]

Would it be recommended to buy keyword loaded domain names in the pet niche? I have found available .com keyword domain names getting 200-1000 exact match monthly searches and higher? These keywords are getting $4-6 clicks in Adwords. Have I luckily found some domain names that could be monetized via buildout or parking monetization? They are available through hand regristration at about $7.50 each. This seems to good to be true, is it?

 

[nielsencl]

Yes and no. For parking or developing they could work well.

But you will only make money on parking a new domain if the domain is something that people type in directly to see if there is a site there, like say "cadfood.com". If people don't type it in, how are you going to get any traffic? The number of searches each month means little if people cannot find it.

You can optimize and promote your parked domain, but most domain parking services don't allow this, so check with them first or they may close your account.

Noomle.com is one place you can "park" your domain, add content, and promote it like any other. They use Adsense to display ads. This is easy, but your choices for what your site looks like is limited. This is better for people that have many domains and no time to spare.

Development is almost always good, but it helps to know a little about building a site and web marketing concepts such as link building and SEO.

But if you are going to do develpment, you need to know that while a keyword-rich domain can help a site, the amount that it helps is quite small when compared with what you can do with a truly BAD domain and a lot of content and SEO. Our Bizprolink-Internet.com is a good example of an awful domain name on a site that does really well (80k uniques a month) anyway.

Ask lots of questions and read as much as you can and you will avoid some of the mistakes that I and others made when we started. But listen to many different people because some of us don't know what we are talking about. Someone may say "This domain has a top ranking for the keyword phrase, so you have to have that." but they ignore the fact that the site has that keyword all over the place and in links pointing to the site.

 

[mrjohn]

Make sure you take a good square look at who the Google SERP winners are for those keywords.

It's easy to say, "Wow, a great keyword domain!" and completely overlook that other people have already SEOed the hell out of your keywords.

 

[enlytend]

These keywords are getting $4-6 clicks in Adwords. Have I luckily found some domain names that could be monetized via buildout or parking monetization? They are available through hand regristration at about $7.50 each. This seems to good to be true, is it?

They're not trademarks, are they? Company names, product names ... Registering someone else's tm will bring you nothing but trouble.

 

[esmaret]

No, they are not trademarked names. Thanks for the reply!

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OK. I acquired about a dozen names and plan to utilize Noomle to park the sites. Having checked the forum, Noomle seems to get good reviews. So, I will give them a shot this time and try other parking companies in the future to see what works best for me. Thanks for the help!

 

[accent]

I recommend you work with what you have and not buy any more names until the success or lack of success of your first tries is evident. While domains are relatively new and some people do great right off, there are a lot of people trying to make money on the web and the "low hanging fruit" is mostly picked.

Buying too many names too quickly is the most common newbee mistake - indeed, very very few of us avoid it.

 

[esmaret]

Thanks for the guidance. I have been "domaining" for a while and have made many mistakes, like others I have read about. I guess it is the natural progression towards hopeful success. That is why I am finally reaching out to a respected community, to make sure I am making good decisions going forward. The names I bought, I feel very good about. I researched, listened, waited (to not make an impulse purchase) and researched some more, before buying. I know these names will have value to manufacturers within the keyword names I have purchased. I can always build ecommerce sites with the names and reach reseller agreements with those manufacturers that have interest. In fact, I am meeting with one of the manufacturers next month to discuss my company performing SEO, PPC and EMail Marketing for his company. I may possibly mention the domain names I now have and determine the level of interest in purchasing/building out the sites. If that does not pan out then I will be looking to park via Noomle to see if that is profitable and if my strategy will work within the domaining niche. I love the world of domaining and will figure out how to make this segment of the Internet work for my revenue stream going forward. Thanks again for the guidance.