The Post Sponsored By The Letter Q

[gwkg]

This Post Sponsored By The Letter Q

Heres a tip for those having problems with the letter Q in their short domains.

The best words for Q in the end user market are probably quality and quick. Simply go to the Google Adwords tool and see which phrases people are actually searching for using those words.

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

For months I thought the best phrase for QT was Quality Tires, but then I skimmed down the list and saw Quality Travel is actually searched an average of 33,000 times per month!

Another one was QH, which I thought was a no brainer for Quality Homes, but Quality Hotels is searched an average of 135,000/month with "very high advertiser competition"

Quick turns up a lot, too. Quick Recipes is searched 135K/mo with "very high advertiser competition" and Quick Loan/Loans is a combined 151K/mo.

Another one I found useful

QI = Quality Insurance 110,000 Very High Competition

Remember that these aren't bogus "10 million results in Google" stats. These are phrases that people are actually searching for and advertisers find valuable enough to actually pay for clicks!

While it still won't help you guys find an acronym for bad combinations like QZ and QX, it can point you in the right direction for end users for a lot of Q combinations.

 

[ds2007]

nice find

 

[Kamikaze]

really nice !

 

[Nem0]

Good job. I love me some Q's. Should compile a list of successful companies that have Q in their name, would be interesting.

 

[Dotmainer]

nice, have some q-us too ... my idea was Quality or QUOTES <- should be good too

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[-REECE-]

I actually like the letter Q myself -- much better in English than X/Z imho. Great job and thanks for sharing your work

 

[Big HEAD]

To Quote the Queen ' Question not,the Quality of my Quotes'


QQ QuickQuote top right of box

 

[gwkg]

QQ = Quiz Questions

Searches in September: 40,500
Advertiser Competition: Very High

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Thanks for the rep, those who left it =)

 

[bmugford]

I think I like Q more than most others on this forum.

Q is more acronym friendly, but X is more brandable at times like XBET.com

Brad

I actually like the letter Q myself -- much better in English than X/Z imho. Great job and thanks for sharing your work

 

[Big HEAD]

QQ = Quiz Questions

Searches in September: 40,500
Advertiser Competition: Very High

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Thanks for the rep, those who left it =)

Going the right way to changing Q from an anti to a premium letter. Seismic change in the world of short domains. Very insightful, Q for Quality.

 

[ssamriga]

gwkg you should use "exact match" not "broad" when evaluating google searches.
for "quality travel" it is actually only 170 searches per month not 33k, the 33k figure is no better than "bogus 10 million google results"
Quick loan/s though is really good because it has 28k exact searches combined.

But remember if you want to evaluate the exact keywords always choose "exact" results.

 

[Shenron]

Great!

Just found that QER stands for quick easy recipes with a large search volume for the exact phrase and many variations... :D

 

[gwkg]

gwkg you should use "exact match" not "broad" when evaluating google searches.

We are not doing final keyword analysis here. We are only looking for ideas concerning our short domains containing the letter 'Q'. I'm not evaluating the value of qualitytravel.com (although I'm sure it would be high), I'm figuring out what to do with a domain that contains the letters QT. So I do a broad match search for the word "quality".

Obviously not that many people are typing "quality travel" into Google and hitting submit. But they are searching for a lot of things that are a broad match to quality travel. If you are using adsense on your site, broad match is the type of match the majority of ads showing up are going to be using.

I still disagree that even if your purpose is evaluating the keyword phrase you should use "exact" match. I think you should use "phrase".

Using "quality travel" as our example, searches for "quality travel services", "quality travel insurance" and "quality travel trailers" all outperform "quality travel" by itself. All these phrases would give me great category sections if I was developing an adsense site/blog.

And since we are working with short domains that consist of only letters, we have a lot of flexibility when it comes to the titles and content of any particular page. tnqt.com/quality-reward-travel will have a CTR as good as any other domain name that shows up for a "quality reward travel" search.

Either way, the purpose of this thread is to give people a tool to help them develop ideas for their short domain 'Q' sites - not to give a step by step plan to monetize your domain.

What you do with the tool is up to you.

for "quality travel" it is actually only 170 searches per month not 33k, the 33k figure is no better than "bogus 10 million google results"

The reason I call the search results bogus is not because of the high number a broad match produces. It's because people use that stat when selling their domain as if high keyword competition in Google is a good thing. 13 billion web sites are indexed for the word "the" but no one is searching for it.

The number of actual searches and the advertiser competition is much more relevant to the value of a domain.