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**TechPad** · 05-10-2008, 03:35 PM

Hi All,
Americafu.com and Americanfu.com

any ideas on value?

**TechPad** · 05-12-2008, 11:34 PM

No thoughts on value? It is two words and .com, Brandable FU like Kung Fu

America: 766,000,000 Google searches
American: 1,250,000,000 Searches

**wmloz** · 05-13-2008, 12:00 AM

I think all this "fu" stuff your seeing on the boards is because I mentioned SpyFu.com. Could be wrong, but if so, surely a big coincidence.

**TechPad** · 05-26-2008, 01:05 PM

Actually I have been looking at fu's for a while. But, do you have an opinion on value?

**ftaylor** · 05-26-2008, 03:02 PM

15,500 for "america fu".

2,900 for "american fu".

Remember and use quotes

**TechPad** · 05-26-2008, 04:22 PM

Note: I am not defending this domain, this is a general question.

I am really wondering why when domainers are looking at domains for a value they goto Google and search in quotes?

I have been doing SEO since 1995, speak at SEO shows and experiment on SEO daily. Not trying to say I am the best at it, but for cred sake, I think I know a little about it.

I know it is off thread topic, but seriously the intrinsic value of a keyword leading in a domain regardless of the word following should be very high to a enduser or a reseller, especially as keywords that are short and memorable dissapear. You can then SEO the word very easily at that point, so therefore number of searches on the root phrase is more important that the secondary word.

Would love to hear people input on this.

**ftaylor** · 05-26-2008, 04:38 PM

As to SEO:

Try searching for Glasgow SEO on Google. Number 3 is www.glasgowseo.co.uk. This website has 0 backlinks 0 original content and has not been updated for nearly a year, yet it is number 3 out of about 298,000, with a number of active SEO companies underneath it. The domain can play an important part in where your website appears in a Google search.

Try this one out:

three blows. I was commissioned to do some HTML and CSS for www.threeblows.co.uk. 0 backlinks, yet jumps straight to number 1 (on Google.co.uk) after it has been indexed. (It is number 6 or 7 on Google.com).

As to quoted search:

Let's look at AmericaFu.com, and why quoted search is important. I could search for 'cake knuckle' and get 175k results; 175k pages have cake and knuckle close to one another. I'll bet you cakeknuckle.com is available. If I search for "cake knuckle" I get 5 results. This is very important in domaining because ideally you want a domain name where the words frequently occur beside one another - and make sense together. Wordtracker returns No results found for 'america fu'. Please try again.

In my opinion, the domain names AmericaFu.com and AmericanFu.com are worthless. I bet you the domain name "pizzacrowbar.com" is available, and it has a great word in it; pizza. Unquoted search shows 195,000 results - promising! Quoted search, 495. Not so promising. PizzaCrowbar.com is a regfee name.

Hope this helps.

Finbarr

**TechPad** · 05-26-2008, 05:12 PM

ftaylor, thank you for your insight and opinion on this.
My reason for questioning this is this:

A example of one of my domains that I developed.

www.TheGameReviews.com , now normally you would appraise this domain as less than reg fee right? It has "THE" in it, and only 4300 results for "the game reviews".
7.62 Million for "Game Reviews" and 12.5 Million for Game Reviews.

6 months after launching this domain I rank for Game Reviews, "Game Reviews" on the first page and too many to count long tail game name game reviews type terms. The site generates $X,XXX every month in ad sales.

Now, I did this with almost no effort since people naturally link to the domain as "as seen on The Game Reviews", and attained the rank solidly after 6 months.

This is only one example of this that I have. So I still question the validity of quotes as a restriction when appraising domains.

**ftaylor** · 05-26-2008, 05:46 PM

The word the is a bit of a hax in this respect if you ask me. Google always ignores "the" unless you quote it. I'm hoping to work for Google when I qualify so maybe I'll come back and post an answer on this thread in a few years time