"Free-Wallpaper" gets 267,565 Overture searches for April

**domaindirk** · 06-01-2002, 11:46 AM

Returned 267,565 searches for April on Overture for the keywords "Free-Wallpaper"! So what is the value of "Free-Wallpaper.net"

**Omni** · 06-01-2002, 11:54 AM

domaindirk but "Free-Wallpaper.net" gets 32 a month. very different story

**domaindirk** · 06-01-2002, 12:17 PM

And Free-Wallpaper.com gets 1409 a month. So, if someone types "Free-Wallpaper" in the search box of their browser, do all the returns go to the .com?

**Omni** · 06-01-2002, 12:21 PM

no they don't, on mine it gives a "Cannot Find server" error

**beatz** · 06-01-2002, 12:28 PM

"domaindirk but "Free-Wallpaper.net" gets 32 a month. very different story"
Omni - what are you talkin about?

To figure out how many people typein the domainname.ext you would use a tracker
To figure out how often a certain term is searched for,you indeed use overture.
Checking overture search results for domainname.ext makes no sense.

**Omni** · 06-01-2002, 12:36 PM

hi beatz

The overture results for domainname.ext is supposedly suppose to show you how "popular" a name is. In the sense that if a domainname.ext returns a result other than 0 (and a negative number

) you would generally expect the type-ins to be greater than the value.

Purpose - to do a "research" on the possible value of a domain name. Hope that answers your question.

**domaindirk** · 06-01-2002, 12:39 PM

Thanks beatz. Your input enlighten the subject.

DD

06-01-2002, 12:51 PM

the overture suggestion tool treats hyphens as spaces.

the mix of hyphen plus .net makes this very unlikely to be getting type-ins (whereas freewallpaper.com will definately be getting them).

that leaves it as a seo domain, and there are so many of those as to kill off any real premium above reg fee imo.

**Omni** · 06-01-2002, 12:59 PM

agree with safesys 90%

the remaining 10% goes to whether keyword domains really help for the purpose of seo. does anyone have an answer to this backed with proof?

**domaindirk** · 06-01-2002, 01:14 PM

oh well...Guess i wasted my money. Again.

**Omni** · 06-01-2002, 01:15 PM

Least it comes with a lesson learnt

**beatz** · 06-01-2002, 09:11 PM

"The overture results for domainname.ext is supposedly suppose to show you how "popular" a name is. "
Sorry Omni but totally wrong.
I would say 0,000000000001 % of people put in the url into a SE's searchbox if at all. People use SEs for SEARCHTERMS,not for URL's.So to check how many searches on overture where done for an URL is just nonsense,sorry.
As for the hyphens: Even if it is a hypenated .net - as long as it is a generic searchterm domain that has high searches on overture (meaning searches on the TERM,not the DOMAIN) it still is a GREAT searchengine name that if optimized and developed is A LOT more worth than reggin fee.

**Omni** · 06-01-2002, 10:09 PM

I agree with that beatz. But it's one of the indicator someone might use to help determine the possible type-in "value" of a domain if you know what I mean.

06-02-2002, 12:44 AM

Originally posted by safesys
the overture suggestion tool treats hyphens as spaces.

true, and it also so treats spaces as spaces so are the typing in "free wallpaper.com" or "free-wallpaper.com" or some other weird character between the two keywords which also registers as a blank?