closed FamilyHistory.org

[DomainShark]

You’re wrong on this, sure many would type the .com but a large proportion would also type .org as .org is so widely used amongst this genera of website

In general, the kind of internet user who tries to find something on a particular subject by typing the subject into the address bar as a URL rather than using a search engine is the kind of user not very familiar with the .org extension. Most .org type-ins are looking for a specific organisation. I'm not saying the none of your traffic is from people researching their family history typing it in on the off-chance there'll be a useful site there but I imagine it's a relatively small proportion.

I'm surprised how few backlinks there are counted, especially since Google indexes >2000 pages containing the term "familyhistory.org", and usually where a URL is mentioned there's a link somewhere in the page. Still, a page mentioning familyhistory.org as a huge database compiled by the Mormons is bound to generate typeins from some interested readers even if the page designers haven't bothered to turn it into a hyperlink.

Sure, I agree this could explain a few type ins daily, but no way 80 or so per day. Remember, these publications are likely years old.

Three or four years isn't that long for paper publications, not to mention lazy writers of new articles copying old lists of useful links from older publications or sites without checking them - one web page linking to your site claims to have been last updated at the beginning of this year, although I believe the site had long since ceased to exist.

 

[Leading Names]

In general, the kind of internet user who tries to find something on a particular subject by typing the subject into the address bar as a URL rather than using a search engine is the kind of user not very familiar with the .org extension. Most .org type-ins are looking for a specific organisation. I'm not saying the none of your traffic is from people researching their family history typing it in on the off-chance there'll be a useful site there but I imagine it's a relatively small proportion.

I'm surprised how few backlinks there are counted, especially since Google indexes >2000 pages containing the term "familyhistory.org", and usually where a URL is mentioned there's a link somewhere in the page. Still, a page mentioning familyhistory.org as a huge database compiled by the Mormons is bound to generate typeins from some interested readers even if the page designers haven't bothered to turn it into a hyperlink.

Three or four years isn't that long for paper publications, not to mention lazy writers of new articles copying old lists of useful links from older publications or sites without checking them - one web page linking to your site claims to have been last updated at the beginning of this year, although I believe the site had long since ceased to exist.

I guess we will have to agree to differ. Thanks for the input all the same .

BTW, I have a domain which use to be a massive site (and I mean massive – on the same level as Pets.com) with thousands of ‘references’ in Google from major sites like business.com, Yahoo Business and many others. Yet this domain receives only a handful or hits each day so ‘references’ aren’t ‘links’ and do not yield high amounts of traffic, many are reference from way back when the site was live (archived) = not current = not read much.

Thanks
- Rob