Thanks for your opinions/suggestions guys,
Hey, I wanted to respond with a lengthy reply but seems I have WAAAY too much to do today so I will try to keep it brief.
I know what you mean, I'm in the same situation right now.
ThreeD, I always respect your opinion and everything you write, and always still will.
Thank you
I can only say the same thing in return to you!
These types of conversations are very intriguing to me. Your Valuations/Perceptions, and SEO...
G Results - too many = Bad because of competition.
I agree AND disagree.
I want to own Sex.tv, Porn.tv, Business.tv, Golf.tv, RealEstate.tv, etc.
I mean who wouldn't?
Thats why Business.tv just sold for $101,000
Too many G Results - So what. I mean this in the nicest of ways to you ThreeD.
Therein lies the age old question of SEO???
You've listed some really great keywords there Vito. Obviously they hold a much higher value than the average .TV domain, I won't disagree with you there.
All I'm trying to say is this: You need to figure out what you want to do with a domain. Having highly ranked keywords is never a bad thing, it's quite the opposite. It does improve your ranking, but the keyword(s) alone probably won't get you on the first page of google.
It's important to put your plan down on a piece of paper. Are you buying domains for development or for resale/parking? If you're thinking about development you have to consider how many exact searches your keywords get. Business, porn, sex, golf, money etc obviously get a ton of monthly searches and direct type-ins, that's a no-brainer.
But what about longtail domains or less popular keywords that don't get the type-in traffic? They have to rely on other methods of marketing/promotion. You have to start thinking about SEO, Adwords, Exact search queries and more.
If you buy domains for resale you have to figure out who you're going to sell them to. Domainers often want domains that pay for themselves. That alone is pretty tricky in .TV land unless you own great keyword domains.
If you're targeting endusers CPC and parking revenue probably doesn't really matter as much (unless they're going to market their domain through adwords or something similar). Why? Because they'll develop the domain anyway. They'll add content, they'll add the correct frequency of keywords in their content to make sure they rank well in google, yahoo and bing, they'll add tags, meta info etc etc.
We have knowledge that the domain name DOES play a HUGE part if our Search Engine rankings, AND we do know that the tld has a part in our Search Engine ranking so...
Look up HomeAuctions.
lets say this is a term that someone is able to get ranked pretty well, It still says Home Auctions . TV
You know you are getting virtual tours of that Home and/or Property.
That's all good. Home auctions is a great term. But how would you market it? Awareness and brandability is probably the most important thing to keep in mind. Without visitors and traffic your website won't survive. Did you know that only 2600 people on a GLOBAL scale search for "Home Auctions" every month? With a CPC of $1.50 that's not going to make you or any future owner happy in terms of revenue.
On the other hand, if you have a big marketing budget to go along with HomeAuctions.TV, CPC and exact search results suddenly don't matter as much because direct marketing in magazines or TV commercials will increase your type-in traffic and/or link-in popularity.
Actually, I am very very happy (honestly) that we do not all see the same value in each others domains or I would have had to fight off every Major Dropcatcher/Domainer/Investor/End User, etc/. that are out there.
I definitely know what you mean and I'm really happy about that too!
I do put value in G results, and until proven wrong, I believe I always will. Difference is, I am NOT a developer (as much as I wish I was, and really promise to, one day) but my belief is more G Results = More Value.
Business G results = 3,580,000,000
Business.tv = $101,000 Highest recorded Dot TV Sale on record.
But what if you look outside the realm of .TV. Look at .com for instance. Can the same analogy be applied there? How many google seach results does Candy.com get to justify the $3mill pricetag?
Home.TV sold for $31k back in April this year and a quick google search for the word "home" returns 6,900,000,000 hits. Does that give Home.TV the value of roughly $200k because the term "home" returns twice as many results as "business"? Quite a bargain for Portalis if that's the case
If you look at it from a domainers pov it's probably not such a bad thing to trust google search results, but the google keyword tool gives you a more exact number in terms of popularity (search frequency) of a word.
I still can't see the relationship between google search results and the value of keywords used in the search.
It all boils down to what your goals are with a domain. Are you going to park it? Sell it? Develop it? How will you advertise for it? How do you want to make money with the domain? So many questions, so many things to consider.
I know HomeAuctions.TV has potential, but on a personal level I'd look beyond the google search results for valuation and development potential.
Man, I've been sitting here typing, thinking, typing and thinking some more. I get so caught up in this I've totally forgotten about everything around me
Got to jet for now, keep the discussion coming though, Vito & everybody else. :lala:
