I'm a noob: will this work?

[stevenpam]

Apologies if this has been asked a million times... I'm too lazy/stupid to use "search". Feel free to ignore or flame as you see fit

So I'm completely new to this domaining business. I thought I'd test a few things out - I'm not expecting to get rich overnight.

I registered the following five domains:

makemoneygoogle.com makemoneygoogleadsense.com
makingmoneygoogle.com
howtomakemoneygoogle.com
makingmoneygoogleadsense.com

They all foward to a ClickBank pitch page for Google Nemesis, with my affiliate link. (Forwarding has been set but hasn't taken effect at the time of this posting... not sure how long it takes)

My quick research using the AdWords keyword tool tells me that these terms are often searched for.

My plan is to try and get "type in traffic" from internet newbies who type searches into the address bar instead of the search box.

In the "old days", if you typed words into your address bar, the browser would first try and resolve the text as a URL.

But I just tried this in Firefox (3) and Internet Explorer (7) and I'm taken straight to the search page.

Does you have any experience of this technique and whether it works?

If I don't make a single sale, I've lost a whopping $40. Even if I make one sale I will have recouped my investment. And I presume the domains have a resale value, too.

 

[nielsencl]

Typing words in the address box always produces uncertain results for me, but when some of the phrases for your doamains worked to take me to a site it was not one of yours. The other times I got the Google search page.

When I checked the search traffic in the Google traffic estimator, only two of them any any traffic and it was very, very low. The rest did not register any traffic.

This is not going to be a very effective method in my opinion, but if you are going to do this you could try and get some links that point to the domains and see how that works. But I would not expect much.

And the fact that you could register all these domains as .coms may indicate the resale market is not real good for them. "MakeMoneyGoogle.com" is the best one in my opinion, but I would not pay more than the reg fee for it.

My suggestion would be to use Blogger, Wordpress, or another application and create 5 sites and make them into a nice little network of sites or blogs that each focusses on one aspect of making money with Google. Once could be about adsense, one could be about using google to promote affiliate programs, one could be about promoting the Google toolbar and Firefox, one could be about Google search, and one could be about what you are doing with the network of sites.

Good Luck!

 

[stevenpam]

My suggestion would be to use Blogger, Wordpress, or another application and create 5 sites and make them into a nice little network of sites or blogs that each focusses on one aspect of making money with Google​

Thanks... that's excellent food for thought.

 

[mis_chiff]

I'm not a pro by any means, but isin't
the word Google TM'ed?

 

[Corey]

g'day and welcome to Namepros

Cheers
Corey

 

[weblord]

those urls will work if they have existing traffic, and will get you some sales on clickbank.com

welcome to namepros

 

[Archangel]

I'm not sure if Google would like anyone profiting from their TM. That's an issue you should bring up in the legal issues thread.

I admire that you're not thinking of getting rich overnight. That makes you smarter than the average noob Coming from one of the first 5,000 ppl registered to this forum, welcome to Namepros!

 

[Dean]

You have lot 40$, no reseller who knows what they are doing will touch those and I suggest you cancel them before you get sued.

 

[Pred]

i suggest you get reading. read for a few weeks, then start registering or buying names carefully.

cancel the ones you got or drop them, and dont park them is my advice
tm's are a nono

 

[nielsencl]

Trademark domains are a very risky thing to buy, but I doubt anyone is going to get sued for registering them. The most likely thing is that you may get an email or registered letter that is pretty scary asking you to stop using them for anything and to give them to the TM holder.

But if you develope a web site that can be considered "fair use", like "xbox forums", and that is not trying to fool anyone or infringe on the TM, then I don't think you will have any problems. I would do some research and get some more advice.

I have had some TM domains for two different companies before I learned better. I had about 6 for one TM and about 12 for the other. The first company sent me a registered letter and I contacted them via email the same day. I was very friendly and told them why I should be allowed to keep two of the 6 domains because they did not infringe and I would be able to keep them if it went to court. They were not nasty, but they insisted on all 6 domains. Since the two I wanted were not making any money really, I gave them all to them. They didn't change the name servers and I was still earning from them all about 4 months later.

The other company was ebay and they sent me an email. It didn't seem to matter that I was using the domains for their affiliate program. I sent them a reply back and asked some questions and they never wrote back or contacted me again. At first I pulled all the content, then when I did not hear back from them I set them all up with redirects and their affiliate links so people just when directly to ebay. I never made any money from them and later traded all the domains for some blog advertising.

Yeah, unless you know what you are doing and understand the risks, stay away for any domain that is or may have a trademark.

 

[johname]

Stay away from trademarks

 

[BitcoinDK]

I guess you have to ask yourself some these questions:

Would I sell copy products, ex. fake Giorgio Armani suits?
Would I sell illegal downloaded mp3?

If yes then go ahead and reg/buy/sell TM domainnames.

Imo, there is no difference between TM domainnames and copy/fake/illegal products.

Just because you probably wont get caught/sued doesnt make it right.

Just my simple opinion.

Good luck and best regards,

Mr. T