Overture discrepancy - Ovt w/o and w/ EXT

[YesBrilliant]

Checking the domain antiquetirecar.net, just as an example, I noticed that only the OVT With TLD has an OVT score of 120, while the OVT WithOUT TLD has no OVT at all.

Also, both scores for the domain antiquetirecar.com With or WithOUT TLD have No scores as well. Like below:

domain--------------OVT With TLD -- OVT WithOUT TLD
antiquetirecar.net---- 120------------- 0
antiquetirecar.com---- 0 -------------- 0

So comes the questions:
- Why does it happen?
- Shouldn't the term "antiquetirecar" alone have an OVT as well?
- Was the domain antiquetirecar.net promoted in any way to inflate its score?
- If antiquetirecar.net has a genuine (because of type-inns) OVT shouldn't the antiquetirecar.com has an even better OVT With TLD since it has a better TLD and thus would get more type-inns?
- Do they have any traffic value?

I've seen the same with several other domains and I can not understand the reason.

Does anyone know why does it happen?

Thanks in advance.

 

[RegFee]

It's actually one of the first things to look for when registering OVT names. Overture scores can be inflated, and chances are if it doesn't have OVT w/o ext, then it won't get any natural type in traffic. And since the .com doesn't have any ovt w/ext, then if the .net really is legitimate, then it is getting typeins because it was a prior site. In that case, you'll have to check archive.org's wayback machine to verify.

Also, when searching for ovt w/o extension, it's best to separate the words.

121 antique car tire

Notice that overture returns the singular version only. It groups plural and singular together.

Finally, remember that overture's keyword suggestion tool sometimes likes to rearrange keywords alphabetically, so make sure the phrase makes sense, ie, Senate States United should really be United States Senate.

 

[YesBrilliant]

Thanks for the great info, RegFee.

Overture scores can be inflated, and chances are if it doesn't have OVT w/o ext, then it won't get any natural type in traffic.

I agree, and as you showed it does have OVT w/o tld but only when the words are separated. Conclusion: If a domain has multiple words, separate the words and check them manually, instead of using DRT, as I did.

And since the .com doesn't have any ovt w/ext, then if the .net really is legitimate, then it is getting typeins because it was a prior site. In that case, you'll have to check archive.org's wayback machine to verify.

Just did that and found no records. So, maybe the OVT was not because of type-inns (because some users would for sure type the .com domain by mistake) but instead the owner who used a bookmark for example.

Notice that overture returns the singular version only. It groups plural and singular together.

Correct. That can be quite misleading sometimes. That is why I try to use both Wordtracker AND Overture to check what term is correct but it is quite time consuming.

Finally, remember that overture's keyword suggestion tool sometimes likes to rearrange keywords alphabetically

Correct again. And that is much more misleading than the item above. For that I was using OVTKeywords.com because their results were in the correct order as typed but during the last few days it is sorting each result alphabetically.

So, what can we do? Is there any tool that could fix all those "bugs" above?

Thanks again.

 

[RegFee]

Don't forget to check http://www.ovthistory.com too. It's database isn't that extensive (it only starts tracking a name when someone searches for it on ovthistory, the site doesn't actively spider to new ovt names) so don't feel too bad if there are no records for a name you're looking up.