Namebio Featured Listing

[SEO-Jay]

Hi All,

Has anybody any experience, thoughts or comments on using the Namebio Featured Listing service?
Wanted to know whether it was worth purchasing a listing for my current auction of zma.io

Thanks
Jay

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[domainscouter]

I've used it a few times. The featured listing service will bring more traffic to your auction. I think its a good deal for the exposure it provides, the rest depends on the interest in the domain.

 

[SEO-Jay]

Thank you domainscouter - this is promising.
How much traffic were you able to bring and were you able to sell through this traffic?

 

[Michael]

I realize I already answered this privately via email, but wanted to reply here as well in case anyone else comes across the post and needs this information.

We leave the click stats public for full transparency. So if you right-click on any of the featured listings and copy/paste the URL, then add a + sign to the end of it, you can see how many clicks it is getting in real time.

For LLL.io they tend to get less than average interest as far as clicks. When I last checked these were the results for the last five LLL.io that were promoted on featured listings:

Oaf.io: http://no_url_shorteners/2C7Nave+ (27 clicks in 3 days or 9/day)
bhk.io: http://no_url_shorteners/2Ce0wl7+ (46 clicks in 7 days or 6.6/day)
bba.io: http://no_url_shorteners/2BILx6N+ (12 clicks in 2 days or 6/day)
nVR.io: http://no_url_shorteners/2rqvt5C+ (10 clicks in 2 days or 5/day)
OVS.io: http://no_url_shorteners/2j1tnCw+ (38 clicks in 7 days or 5.4/day)

Considering what LLL.io tend to sell for, I probably wouldn't promote them unless they are great letters or words. Otherwise with marketplace commissions and acquisition costs, the advertising cost will probably eat up any remaining profit. There's a chance we could send you more in bids than the cost of the advertising, and you might not have gotten those bids otherwise, but it is kind of a coin toss.

If anyone wants to email me to ask about a specific domain and how many clicks it might get I'm happy to help if you're on the fence. I'm able to look up older listings that are no longer live, which you wouldn't be able to get the click-tracking link for any more. Might be able to provide some insight.

That said there's obviously no guarantee for how many clicks a listing might get. It depends on many things including how many other listings are running at the time, the quality of those other listings, the quality of your domain, how good you are at writing sales copy, what day(s) of the week you run the listing for, etc. Also there are some anomalies, for example extremely good domains tend to get fewer clicks because not as many people can afford them.

We also have very high quality traffic. For the most part the people who use our site are serious about domain investing, we don't get as many hobbyists as the blogs do. When we signed up for Flippa's affiliate program when it still existed, within a month they reached out saying we were already their top affiliate. We send hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales to GoDaddy as well. So I believe we deliver quality buyers to the listings, and we're one of the highest traffic sites/tools in the industry that you can advertise on. Also our price is the lowest for featured listings the last time I checked.

I think our advertising product is a good value, and I think customers agree judging by the amount of repeat business we get. Our top 10 customers (not counting those with subscription agreements) have ordered 259, 70, 43, 29, 26, 25, 21, 21, 20, and 19 listings respectively. There are hundreds and hundreds of customers who have ordered multiple times as well. I can't imagine they'd be coming back so often if it wasn't worth it.

Hope this helps!