Misspelled Domains ?? Value or Not ???

[domainabilities]

Anyone tell me how you could check if a really simple misspelling of a hugely popular domain is of any value ? Or are they generally all a good investment. How can you check for searches for the misspelling besides overture...

 

[Mels]

It actually depends on the amount of type ins that domain name would get

Melinda

 

[ThreeD]

I've read that some people have gained loads of additional traffic to their site when taking advantage of misspelled domain names. Most misspells occur to the left and right of the actual key, not up or down, so if you're looking into for example amazon.com, go for amazin.com or amapon.com and not amaz9n.com or amaz0n.com.

How much traffic you can gain from this certainly depends on the popularity of the actual domain and ofcourse how clumsy people are when typing..

You could also check this thread. Hope it helps

 

[4u-domains]

If it scores a count at Overture WITH the extension included you can be fairly confident it gets typo traffic..

For example the typo of miniclip.com:

minicilp.com registers 296 which is excellent.

There is no way to ascertain the actual traffic it will get but using experience and judgement as to the quailty of the original target domain you can gauge an approximation.

I have names that register uniques at double the OVT+Extn count
but more that register as low as a 10th.
I have never gotten round to finding out an average (though youre question gets asked a lot) but I would guestimate it, in my case, to be 1 click per every 3 counts on OVT+Extn.
This will be different for everyone, of course.


Hope that helps and makes sense !