Which should i develop first - traffic or keyword?

[draggar]

I have two domains that I want to develop and I decided to go watch a movie (long week) then throw up a site for one of them.

Out of the two domains, one has over half a million google results for the Keyword1 Keyword2 (no quotes - 400K w/ quotes) domain (the domain is ketword1keyword2.org). The issue is that the domain has little traffic - 2-5 hits per month.

The other domain is a one word .net - it has fir traffic (3-5 per day) but has a fraction of the Google results as the other domain.

So, which one so you think I should develop?

[south]

Sellable products or services? Competition? PPC value? Affiliate programs available?

[cleverlyslick]

i say develop the keyword one as it will generate more traffic with proper seo.

[draggar]

Sellable products or services? Competition? PPC value? Affiliate programs available?

Mainly an information / niche news site w/ AdSense

[south]

Mainly an information / niche news site w/ AdSense

Both?

I'm leaning towards the .net first - it already gets type in traffic, 50-60 times as much as the other, and with less results there will be less competition to get to #1, plus it's one word, and a .net rather than .org. It would also depend on the words as to whether .org is applicable. But, equally important, I would also check the search volume, not just the number of results.

imho.

[draggar]

I'm sure the search volume on the traffic one would be far less than the search volume on the results one.

As for .net and .org - IMO it won't matter but in this niche I think people would tend to trust a .org more than a .net

[draggar]

OK, I've done some research and the .net domain has about 150 backlinks to it from higher ranking sites - many on the first 3 pages when you search for the domain w/o TLD (out of 299K results).

The site was in either Dutch or German (considering that the domain is an English version of a word that originates in Belgium - I'll assume it is Dutch (but I don't know the difference between the two and the cached page from Google looks like German, though).

I do have a friend who would be willing to help with translations into German (as long as I help sell his books from the site).

[ARMG]

You can PM me the links and I'll let you know if it was Ducth, Belgian or German .

[draggar]

Thanks - I PM'ed you the cached part from Google. (I didn't know Belgium had their own language - when my wife was there she was told everyone pretty much speaks French, Dutch (Flemish?), or German, depending on where they live.

She also said that the Dutch part was the good part (She flew into Brussels and stayed in Mechelen- (funny that we have malinois, too).

[ARMG]

Indeed in the "Dutch" part of Belgium they speak Flemish(Vlaams) which is different from what we speak in Holland. If the text was written by a Belgian I would have been able to distinguish it.

And the google cache text most certainly is German .

Cheers,
ARMG