discuss Using Google search "results" to promote your domain

[HotKey]

Yes we all do it. But unless it's one word, posting the amount of search results for that name is technically misleading.
ie:
Quick Store = 6.8 Million results.

So you are selling quickstore.com and post "Holy Crapanoli guys buy this domain up, it has 7 mil results on Google"

Except that there isn't. Because actually what you are seeing are the results of pages that contain those TWO words, whether or not they are being used in conjunction. It's not like there's all these pages out there containing the term Quick+Store.

To get more realistic, we enter the term into the search bar with the actual quotations:
"quick store"

Result? Now the number of pages on the web that contain the exact term Quick Store comes to 179,000.

Massive difference. So when you see someone claiming results, there is more than one way to read those results.

 

[Kate]

But who is going to be impressed ? I don't see that at a relevant metric at all. On the other hand, if you have good search volume for the expression, it is a start.

 

[Kuffy]

Actually it's even worse, because Google seems to ignore punctuation. So if there is a full stop between quick and store, then it still treats it as a phrase.

 

[HotKey]

But who is going to be impressed ? I don't see that at a relevant metric at all. On the other hand, if you have good search volume for the expression, it is a start.

volume=popularity=bs
And bs sells, doesn't it?
I'm not looking for popularity, I'm looking for relevance. Unfortunately, Google has strayed in this department.

Actually it's even worse, because Google seems to ignore punctuation. So if there is a full stop between quick and store, then it still treats it as a phrase.

Exactly. Google's algorithm has outsmarted itself. It assumes most of us are idiots and don't actually mean what we type into that bar. When I really want the truth, I go to DDG.

 

[biggie]

Using Google search "results" to promote your domain

Yes we all do it. .

actually, all of us, don't


imo....

 

[HotKey]

Using Google search "results" to promote your domain



actually, all of us, don't


imo....

It's an expression..and yes it's done all over the place on many platforms.

 

[enlytend]

To get more realistic, we enter the term into the search bar with the actual quotations:
"quick store"

Result? Now the number of pages on the web that contain the exact term Quick Store comes to 179,000.

And if you want to know how many of those 179,000 pages are actually trying to RANK for it:

allintitle:"quick store"

Which is more meaningful that how many indexed pages contain the term. (But search volume is still better.)

 

[biggie]

It's an expression..and yes it's done all over the place on many platforms.

it may be done, but it's a repetitive action, due to observance of others doing it and the assumption of what search volume is.

as is, search results are skewed by thousands of domainer queries daily, so the true metric is lost in that variable.

in the end, the numbers don't mean jack, if a domain acquired based on them, doesn't receive some type-in traffic.

imo....