Future behavior of type-ins

[ulasbbtr]

Past website traffic for a domain generally shows a decreasing behavior in future. I wonder what about the type-ins for a domain. How is your experiences? Observed a decreasing, an increasing, or a chaotic unpredictable behavior?

Thank you for sharing your ideas.

 

[Seabass]

I started tracking uniques on good generics in 1996. I have never seen anything but a downward trend.

However, much of that may be normal. What I mean is that as the years past more competition, more domains bought, other applications (blogs, video games, etc....) have stolen some eyeballs from the domains I have tracked. But we may be coming to a point ( I don't know when), when the bottom line number won't drop anymore. In fact, if direct navigation starts becoming more popular as folks realize they can get the info. the want (in less steps than a search engine), then the numbers could start to rise again. I truly think Yahoo and Google are terrified of direct navigation and the domainers, b/c this could really be a blow to their business model if we become the de facto standard for search and usurp their power.

One thing I have noticed is the traffic is not dropping very fast anymore. Mabye we are coming to a bare base din-level traffic that will always be there. Maybe it will start to go up, but that is all speculation.

In 1996, using one domain example, I had a pure generic domain that was doing 1400 uniques a day. Today it is doing 120 uniques a day. That being said, that domain was the obvious choice for the info. most folks would search for and I was virtually the only one offering a domain for that info. So, it is not a perfect science figuring out what has happened since then to the traffic, but I think my analysis is fairly spot-on.

I have heard others say it is currently increasing, but I see the growth nowhere on no domain, without some 3rd party influence making the traffic grow, like a similar developed domain.

 

[gemsergio]

I remember just before altavista I would type in all sorts of domain name in order to get the infos I was looking for, it was a terrible experience... I don't think I have typed in a domain in 7-8 years.

I remembered the day I discovered google...What a day

 

[Seabass]

I type in domains occasionally for what I am looking for - especially when looking for a specific product to purchase. Info. searches are Yahoo/Google.

I kept hearing how many folks use Google and Yahoo and type the domain directly into the search bar there instead of the traditional address bar above. But, only until recently when my niece's boyfriend (18 years old) told me he uses Google to type in URL's, did I finally see first hand folks search that way too. I thought only really old folks, or Internet newbies would do that.

All in all, I think Google searches suck. I never have understood why folks think they are the best.

 

[Fka200]

I kept hearing how many folks use Google and Yahoo and type the domain directly into the search bar there instead of the traditional address bar above. But, only until recently when my niece's boyfriend (18 years old) told me he uses Google to type in URL's, did I finally see first hand folks search that way too. I thought only really old folks, or Internet newbies would do that.

I was watching an uncle of mine do the same exact thing. I tried to make him understand about the address bar, but gave up. He preferred to type it into Google... lol.

 

[Frenchiexno1]

I think that the current internet population is now to battle hardened to type urls straight in to the address bar, as its far to irritating when you hit a blank page / non relevant page. In the uk certainly older people are now quite used to searching and so are youngsters. So I can only imagine that any direct type in traffic would come from India / China / Africa.

I think for the modern domainer search engine optimisation has to be king, as buying a domain that gets pure type in traffic is virtually impossible now........althought I keep searching

Typos of course .....forgot to mention that, on popular branded domain names.

 

[johname]

if your a bad speller like me you rarley do anything without going through google first

 

[.X.]

I am not, and never have been a believer in "Pure Type in Traffic" , The highly desirable generic names , get type in traffic of course, Typos of those highly desirable generic names, get natural type in traffic, I very very seldom ever type in a name. I either enter a page from google, or from other sources, I can't even remember the last time i typed in a name, I copy and paste names in, I guess that might count as type in traffic, But then i get those names from google and else where as well, that i copy and paste in.

 

[geb9696]

I find this information extremely interesting as I rarely use search engines anymore. If I want to find something on a specific topic I type the one word generic.com into my browser because I know that I am going to find revelant information within the first page or two. From my experiance generic one word.coms are either developed or point you to exactly what you want. I find most search engines useless as it takes way to long to actually find what I am looking for. I know the major websites in the industries that I look for and I will go to these pages to find my info.

 

[NameCharger]

How about the crafty Google trick that redirects type-ins to sponsored listings?

 

[notlikeyou]

I was watching an uncle of mine do the same exact thing. I tried to make him understand about the address bar, but gave up. He preferred to type it into Google... lol.

This is a losing battle, no matter what relative.

Microsoft even helped the cause, they removed the word "address" when releasing IE7 from in front of the address bar. I would say this helped the perpetuate the browser confused.... ahh forget it I'll just type it into google

 

[mrbigdomain]

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