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How many by a show of hands feel qualified to value domain names in here?
How many have bought AND SOLD over say, 500 names at market?
Lets not confuse reality with dreams. Unless you have business.com or a NYSE ticker symbol, or unless it enjoys a high search engine position, and therefore traffic, it probably isn't worth the $5.99 you paid to register it.
The valkue is almost always based solely on the revenue sector keyword traffic ( i.e. casino- very good, dog shampoo- very bad).
Simply put, a dog shampoo domain name that average 10,000 uniques/day is probably not worth on the open market as much as a casino domain name that produces 1,000 uniques/day.
UNIQUE TRAFFIC IS ALL THAT MATTERS 99% of the time!
This means that all of the wellitsprettygood.net and i-almost-got-a-mortgage.com names on the planet are not worth your $5.99 unless they produce UNIQUES!!!
That being said, thousands of links on ATW or MSN ( although MSN linking is actually better than Yahoo), mean nothing if those links do not produce traffic.
I have seen domains that have less than 500 links produce huge targeted traffic ( have a look at http://wwwFabDir.com) at over 30,000 pageviews/day, while names I have purchased ( before there were domain traders per se) that had over 50,000 links produced a fraction of that.
SO.... the ONLY names that matter are the ones that produce traffic, and they are normally ones that are well positioned in the serach engines.
Incidentally, everything I have ever read to date on SE position has been hogwash.
In fact, all of the seimnars on SE positioning by "experts" has been even bigger hogwash.
Even bigger hogwash yet, is the software that purports to be able to position on SEs.
Truth is, it is very simple, and takes almost no work at all, but has NOTHING to do with the domain name, the meta tags, or hidden keywords.
Have a look at the chart on the most recent site we have built traffic for HERE
This is only a fabric site, but now enjoys over 30,000 PAGEVIEWS day ( not hits, which are completely meaningless)
Ask us how to beat the search engines. We'll tell you.
Rest assured I guarantee no software will do it (yet), no meta tag will, and domains littered with dashes and keywords won't either.
We know how they work through 4 years of trial and error.
One more point... it doesn't matter how often the algorythm changes, this will stay in top listings.
Very simple.
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How many have bought AND SOLD over say, 500 names at market?
Lets not confuse reality with dreams. Unless you have business.com or a NYSE ticker symbol, or unless it enjoys a high search engine position, and therefore traffic, it probably isn't worth the $5.99 you paid to register it.
The valkue is almost always based solely on the revenue sector keyword traffic ( i.e. casino- very good, dog shampoo- very bad).
Simply put, a dog shampoo domain name that average 10,000 uniques/day is probably not worth on the open market as much as a casino domain name that produces 1,000 uniques/day.
UNIQUE TRAFFIC IS ALL THAT MATTERS 99% of the time!
This means that all of the wellitsprettygood.net and i-almost-got-a-mortgage.com names on the planet are not worth your $5.99 unless they produce UNIQUES!!!
That being said, thousands of links on ATW or MSN ( although MSN linking is actually better than Yahoo), mean nothing if those links do not produce traffic.
I have seen domains that have less than 500 links produce huge targeted traffic ( have a look at http://wwwFabDir.com) at over 30,000 pageviews/day, while names I have purchased ( before there were domain traders per se) that had over 50,000 links produced a fraction of that.
SO.... the ONLY names that matter are the ones that produce traffic, and they are normally ones that are well positioned in the serach engines.
Incidentally, everything I have ever read to date on SE position has been hogwash.
In fact, all of the seimnars on SE positioning by "experts" has been even bigger hogwash.
Even bigger hogwash yet, is the software that purports to be able to position on SEs.
Truth is, it is very simple, and takes almost no work at all, but has NOTHING to do with the domain name, the meta tags, or hidden keywords.
Have a look at the chart on the most recent site we have built traffic for HERE
This is only a fabric site, but now enjoys over 30,000 PAGEVIEWS day ( not hits, which are completely meaningless)
Ask us how to beat the search engines. We'll tell you.
Rest assured I guarantee no software will do it (yet), no meta tag will, and domains littered with dashes and keywords won't either.
We know how they work through 4 years of trial and error.
One more point... it doesn't matter how often the algorythm changes, this will stay in top listings.
Very simple.
:> )