What is w/OVT ?

[fab]

45k is definitely very good assuming it's real.
Using a hypothetical example:
computer science - this is a searched term
computerscience - is not a search term, neither is
computerscience.com
computerscience.org
computerscience.net
computer-science
therefore only the first would have any positive results.

[mgstudent]

Thanks for the reply.

So do you think it's worth registering doamins like this when I come across them? Even if it's word1word2.net? and not the .com?

In terms of making money, am I then to expect typein traffic and make money from parking it (probably more likely with .com)? or is there some inherent value whereby if I developed it with some content and stuck adsense on there then I could make money by having a lot of traffic - this traffic coming from being put high up in search engines because of my domain name (word1word2.com/net etc) being ranked higher for being closest to the search terms...

I hope this isn't too confusing and that you kinda get what I'm trying to say...
Just how to monetize domains, that are made up of highly searched keywords?

Thx

[fab]

In terms of making money, am I then to expect typein traffic and make money from parking it (probably more likely with .com)?

Why would you expect type in traffic, especially .net. You probably would get traffic to .com, since some browsers will automatically add the .com if no tld was typed in, but .net probably won't get any except for other reasons, like a typo of something else popular.

So do you think it's worth registering doamins like this when I come across them? Even if it's word1word2.net? and not the .com?

.Com definitely, .Net most likely. For something like this the best bet might be developing it. A well developed web-site, with strong key words.net should get good traffic.

Generally, I think parking is going to start fading away, and we will see more and more developed web-sites.

[mgstudent]

Thanks fab,

it is useful. At the moment I've spotted a 2 word .com for sale with an OVT score of over a million for those 2 words... plus google results show 900,000.

But the price for the domain is $3000.

I know it's a high ovt and a .com, but I wouldn't type this into a search engine, and I don't know how it would make any money other than resale.

It's crossed my mind that the ovt might not be accurate - not sure how to confirm that though. Are there any ways to confirm historical ovt's, for each month during last year say?

[hush]

Continuing the question from mgtstudent, I would also love to know the role of extension in keyword search. If example.com and example.net are both just parked, would the SE ranking differ?

[renesisx]

The search engines generally don't differentiate ranking based on extension, except perhaps locally, e.g. .co.uk might score higher in UK. That is just speculation.

.coms demand a higher price because they are more well-known in user's minds and because .com is pretty much the only domain that gets free type-in traffic.

If you're buying the domain for speculation, go for .coms. If you're buying a domain to develop it into a worthwhile site, then go for .net and save your money.

[HomerJ]

it is interesting that the overture site says "Estimated number of times that term was searched on last month", but they are now (July) showing results for January.

also, i was quite surprised, possibly amazed, (or maybe aghast) at how many of the the two word terms i entered returned no results.

[nizamani]

Let me try this feature
Thanks