The coming migration to local search practices and what it means to you the domain buyer / speculator / reseller:
* It means that looking in the yellow pages is something we did back in the olden days. Some industries / services have already began to make the transition and some have yet to start. It's not that some industries are more internet savvy than others ... it's more ... some are being searched for online more than other.
Try 2 things - go to your yellow pages and make a list of all goods / services and combine those names with large cities for potentially good names. Here's the top 23 metro areas in the USA http://www.citypopulation.de/USA-CombMetro.html#Stadt_gross
Next go to Overture Suggestion Tool and search the top city names to see what industries / goods / services are being searched for most often. Or you can just enter goods / services from the yellow pages and see which cities have high search counts.
Then report back with your buys and let's see what we come up with worth keeping.
Then let's see if we can put a value on these names and how can we best resell them.
* I'll lead off. I have bought several names this way. Let me mention one,
TampaTreeService.com - Tampa is the #20 largest metro area in the usa and overture shows tampa tree service searched for 1919 times last month at Yahoo. We can estimate MSN may have a few less and Google a few more, so 3 times 1919 = 5757 searches at the 3 leading SEs for this search term last month. What would you say it's worth?
Search Overture for tree service and see how many cities are taken? Just to get you participating ... at this posting TulsaTreeService.com is still available and Overture shows the search term "tulsa tree service" at 1126 last month.
Comments?
* It means that looking in the yellow pages is something we did back in the olden days. Some industries / services have already began to make the transition and some have yet to start. It's not that some industries are more internet savvy than others ... it's more ... some are being searched for online more than other.
Try 2 things - go to your yellow pages and make a list of all goods / services and combine those names with large cities for potentially good names. Here's the top 23 metro areas in the USA http://www.citypopulation.de/USA-CombMetro.html#Stadt_gross
Next go to Overture Suggestion Tool and search the top city names to see what industries / goods / services are being searched for most often. Or you can just enter goods / services from the yellow pages and see which cities have high search counts.
Then report back with your buys and let's see what we come up with worth keeping.
Then let's see if we can put a value on these names and how can we best resell them.
* I'll lead off. I have bought several names this way. Let me mention one,
TampaTreeService.com - Tampa is the #20 largest metro area in the usa and overture shows tampa tree service searched for 1919 times last month at Yahoo. We can estimate MSN may have a few less and Google a few more, so 3 times 1919 = 5757 searches at the 3 leading SEs for this search term last month. What would you say it's worth?
Search Overture for tree service and see how many cities are taken? Just to get you participating ... at this posting TulsaTreeService.com is still available and Overture shows the search term "tulsa tree service" at 1126 last month.
Comments?
