Most important factors of a domain name?

[JeffPratt]

If parking?

If selling?



Is it the visits a day, Google PR, Key Searchs per month, CPC$ or Alexa?

What should I really be looking at when investing in a domain name. And I really dont know what each of those things stand for so could use a little education on them as I only know a little.

 

[lothos]

If parking?

IMHO the only factors that matter when parking are traffic and type-ins. Without those, there are no visitors and no clicks which means no parking revenue.

 

[JeffPratt]

Lothos,

For instance I use dropday.com to search this stuff unless you can recommend a better site since I am a newbie. What do you mean by IMHO. On dropdays site it states visits a day, is that what you are referring to? Or are you referring to CPC$?

 

[lothos]

Lothos,

For instance I use dropday.com to search this stuff unless you can recommend a better site since I am a newbie. What do you mean by IMHO. On dropdays site it states visits a day, is that what you are referring to? Or are you referring to CPC$?

IMHO = In My Humble Opinion

Traffic is the same as visitors, yes. Type-ins means someone directly typing in the url in their browser, as opposed to clicking a link.

 

[BStraight]

dotcomer, check out the sticky post on this forum at
http://www.namepros.com/domain-appraisals/announcement-appraisal-guide-for-better-results.html

that might help you get started.

I would also suggest that you obtain just a few names to start (less than 5 maybe) and get them in different name areas (i.e. not all LLLL or all non .com or all in the same market niche). Then work with them to experiment with traffic, development, and sales even This way, if you find that you just don't get it or have little interest in this business your downside is small.

I knew someone who regged a name and sold it for over $10k. they then proceeded to reg everything in sight, lost track of the names owned and where they were regged and finally gave up after spending thousands on domain renewals. don't do this.

As in the stock market there are those who day trade and those who buy and hold. Take your time to figure out what you are comfortable with. have fun too

 

[Trader]

For parking and selling, traffic is very important, Visitors = Money , but you are using dropday so you are searching domains at the daily delete list..Near all registrars knows the daily domain traffic because they are puting the domain to parking before the delete...Big registrars are makes auctions and shows the domains daily traffic also high traffic domain searchers checks the all daily deleted domains at Alexa so , real high traffic domain auctions are turns a bid war (Also backorder companys there, they are cathing the domain and making auction)...At the other side some little registrars are not make auctions but they knows the traffic and they renew the domain for themselves.

So cheap high traffic domain find is near impossible today...

Deleted high traffic domains are several types, backlink traffic domains, this type domains lost their traffic in very short time, Google erase the domain info also dont show the domains website pages at the searches, and baclinks will be erase (backlink website owner/webmaster will check the other website and will see a parking page and will erase the backlink) (unless paid backlink). Other types are Type-in domains, full and typo domains, these type domains traffic are the best..(Insurance .com / Doctor .com etc.and typos Anyway all high traffic domains are the expensive today)

Also high cpc is very important if domain takes little traffic. Last year I regged some domains and put them to parking and 1 domain gived $300 with only 150 clicks but other hundreds domain made total maybe $600..

PageRank (PR) is only good for selling. Today a very good PR6 maybe $200-300 (experts can pay more) but 2 years ago was minimum $1000... PR is not means traffic, a PR6 domain can take only 5 visitors daily (It can be a old science website domain or little countrys old gov domain etc.) so they are only for selling...

When you make drop searches be careful! , Alexa info can be fake also PR can be fake. But at the drops easy to understand them, because drop domain old owners don't make trick..They can be fake because old owner example 2 website , and A will be drop and B his main website.. He redirects A to B, now A is at fake position and B is high traffic at Alexa and/or have high PR and A will show the B infos, but A is actually zero... Simple backlink check shows the true, is it fake or valid PR (Zero backlink domains can be real PR because Google and other search engines hide the backlinks and other some backlink shows websites don't show and know all backlinks, so don't take risk and don't buy have little backlinks High PR domains at the drops.. For Alexa fake domains, check the domains at direct Alexa site, if it is fake Alexa will show different website..( Exp. you are checking rtmsh .net and Alexa shows Mozilla.com or "netlib .mobi" at the GoDaddy auctions today it is showing PR6 but redirected "netlib .com" - or at Alexa "statetaxresearch .com" show 4,375 rank but when you check it at Alexa, real site is "Netfirms .com")

 

[ProSence]

extension, short domain, easy to remember, easy to call, traffic these are the main factors in domain name.

 

[Green Moon]

If selling, add: LUCK and TIMING

Beyond good short domain names that may sell more easily, you need to find the right buyer. If you are lucky the right buyer will come along soon. If not, you can hold the domain for a long time.