What is good number for SEDO unique visits?

[cindyda1]

Would like to know what is considered a descent number of unique visits per month if you have a listing on SEDO and it is not being promoted anywhere else? The listings are not featured listings...

I want to know to determine if it would be worth taking a chance on investing the $39 to feature a listing..i am assuming that a certain number of unique visits per month would be a pretty good indicator of interest (or at least curiosity)...and if promoted, would generate more and maybe even a buy.

Also, is there a rule of thumb for figuring a value of the name by the number of unique visits per month?

Sorry, too many questions...

 

[wasistdas]

For some unpromoted domains I have only a couple of visits. Fore some of them - a few hundreds. It depends on names and keywords.

 

[cindyda1]

So what is considered a descent number of visits? would you say 50 per month is a good amount? or would it be at least 100 per month? I am looking for guage here.......to rephrase....if i told someone I get 30 (hypothetically) unique visits per month on sedo...would that be considered good or bad? would I be told i need to be getting at least....XXX amount of visits to peak interest of buyers?

 

[rome2ng]

i though you are paid only if you have some clicks on it ?

let say 1 million hits and no click, you get no money from sedo ?

 

[alex_d]

CindyDA1

From what I have read, many people seem to think that the $39 featured listing is a waste of money. Personally have never tried it, but I have read about them on several sites, and the majority seem to think they are not worth it.

Good luck anyway,

Alex

 

[Badger]

totally irrelevant. Base no valuation on "visits" reported at sedo.

 

[cindyda1]

i suppose I asked because I see some people with domain names for sale refer to the number of visits the name gets on SEDO..most of my names are not worth more than in the $XX's a few maybe worth in the $XXX's, and maybe one or two worth $X,XXX's (If I'm Lucky) by the time you pay $39 for a featured listing that is suppose to get you more traffic....and then if it sells, there is the percent taken out for SEDO (which is fine) but you have to be careful...if the name is only worth in the $XX's amount, you don't make any money. I don't park my names with SEDO for the "click" money only, I park them hoping to sell them...but if they get a lot of clicks, that is a bonus..it's more than most places offer...most of mine, the clicks are never up to par with the visits anyway.

 

[Virgil]

Most good names can do well without the featured listing.

 

[ponyone]

You're still paying to be pushed down 28372872 spots when 28372872 feature their domain names.

I really don't understand it.

 

[mf]

The number of visits a sedo listing gets doesnt really mean anything. Whats the point of buying a domain if some guy is just advertising it somewhere, and if you buy it the advertisement stops and the traffic dies.

The sedo visits only gives you a good estimate. For example, if you recognize a really good domain and realize that it gets substantial traffic, its probably a good match. If you see a domain that you wouldnt pay a cent for, but it gets thousands of visitors (without a website) its probably a hoax.

The sedo visitors stats also give the domain name owner a good estimate how good the domain is. If you registered a typo domian name and it's getting LOTs of traffic the formula for calculating how much the domain is worth usually goes like this:

(NUMBER OF MONTHLY TRAFFIC)/3 = PRICE .

But this formula only works if your domain name is not marketable (ie typo, some company name, etc), but for some reason gets lots of traffic. If your domain name is marketable, then it's really difficult to say how much it is worth.

 

[hookah]

Sedo featured listing hardly increases the number of visits to your address. It helps in viewing your listing of a domain at Sedo only (so viewing your Sedo item) but not landing page itself. It is not this kind of "traffic" you can use as an evidence for uniques.

 

[cindyda1]

true....hadn't really thought about that...but tis true..

 

[slaydragon]

Would like to know what is considered a descent number of unique visits per month if you have a listing on SEDO and it is not being promoted anywhere else? The listings are not featured listings...

I want to know to determine if it would be worth taking a chance on investing the $39 to feature a listing..i am assuming that a certain number of unique visits per month would be a pretty good indicator of interest (or at least curiosity)...and if promoted, would generate more and maybe even a buy.

Also, is there a rule of thumb for figuring a value of the name by the number of unique visits per month?

Sorry, too many questions...

i only got a couples of visits per month..
i think that u are only paid if people clicks on the ads in the sedo page/

 

[Kenny]

totally irrelevant. Base no valuation on "visits" reported at sedo.

Badger, could you please add detail to this? Many of us are confused about "visits", "uniques", and how these are used or not used when trying to estimate value. And if sedo hits would be irrelevant, where might we find a gauge that works?
Thanks, kid5150

 

[Badger]

Badger, could you please add detail to this? Many of us are confused about "visits", "uniques", and how these are used or not used when trying to estimate value. And if sedo hits would be irrelevant, where might we find a gauge that works?
Thanks, kid5150

no worries kenny, and if the thread starter will excuse this minor interlude, the problem with reported visits/uniques etc is that they are so easily misappropriated. Sedo being one of the worst companies to enforce or police the fraud. Obviously, for them, higher hits equal higher sales.

I think the whole business of domain valuation is taken sometimes as too much of an exact science. backlinks, visits, page rank, overture etc etc are yardsticks, and merely that. And whilst 'back links' and 'PR' increase value and add a genuine something, visits and or uniques should at best simply be noted. And for me, i never pay any attention to any of these factors when buying my domains. I only buy at reg fee (major bargains aside) and i only buy based solely on gut feeling. Gut feeling coupled with my future predictions of the internet. All of which, i am happy to say, have so far come to fruition (.tv extension e.g.)

Buying a domain based solely reported visits is a very dangerous business. Especially when it doesnt stack up.. I remember the pokerqueen.net thread here which was reported as high traffic, yet it was a .net, a strange combination of words and a domain which had been registered a mere week or two before the sale at afternic. Worst still, the highest bidder was also a member here. Luckily, sense prevailed.

My only advice i can give to anyone who likes the science of domain research before purchase is: "buyer beware"...

 

[cindyda1]

Badger,

Thanks for clearing all that up..for me at least...Anything I have listed on SEDO is not linked or listed anywhere else..I keep an eye on my list there every now and then, and basically was using the number of unique visits as a guage to determine interest in the name...I suppose the best thing is to check the overture/wordtracker stats for the type ins..and go from there to determine if you have a winner name or not..SEDO seems to always be in the running for the big sales of domain names, what's their draw IYHO? Maybe I should have started a new thread here...veering off subject...sorry.

 

[Badger]

your thread, do with it as you wish.

Sedo have good sales and to be fair i list the odd domain there from time to time. Depends however on your modus operandi, if you want to see how many visits you get for your own domains, and you know you havent falsely boosted traffic, then thats fine, its an accurate reflection. I wrote previously commenting purely on buying based upon traffic.

Sedo have millions of domains listed which means there is a pretty good chance of a sale, two other reasons why they are successful is because a, unlike other parking sites, they do not post the domain owners email - thus negating the reasonable chance that the buyer could cut them from the deal by going direct. And b, their fees are linked to whether or not the domain is parked there.

I get loads of offers via sedo for some of my peppercorn domains i have listed there but everytime, because i park them on my own parking page, i get the "congrats, you have a new offer on your domain xyz" form sedo which, when i log on says "offer $160, fees $150, you get $10".....

 

[SimpleDomaining]

this was really interesting topik to read. i never knew about the formula of price. thank you.
where is one additional question i have got about sedo parking. if you dont mind, not to open new tread because of it...When i park my domains at sedo, i always getting same kind of green and blue page with sedos listing on it. But yesterday i seen a domain parked at sedo with completly different page look (big red letters on the top of page, very clean look of entire page with listings). and i like that. Is that something you have to buy from sedo, or you can customize your page view by somehow?

 

[cindyda1]

What is good number for SEDO unique visits?

Badger again,

Just curious..since you have good luck with offers coming from SEDO, why not park your domain names there? Their take is not bad if parked there. I have only sold one domain name there for $250 and had an offer of $60.00 on another one...which i didn't take because I thought it was too low..anyway,

Gugush...I would like to know about the customizing thing as well, maybe Badger or someone else here can tell us how to do that..

 

[tinggg]

"offer $160, fees $150, you get $10".....

I get the exact same offer formula all the time??