Some stats based in 'reality' and not domain speculator delusions
SEO keyword has almost 1000 sponsors at google (ie people PAYING for the word)
http://www.google.com/sponsoredlinks?q=seo&hl=en&sa=N&start=984
PPC keyword has over 600 sponsors
http://www.google.com/sponsoredlinks?q=ppc&hl=en&sa=N&start=660
LINKS keyword has ZERO SPONSORS
Now this is REALITY info, not the nonsense that domain speculators use to justify delusional valuations on domain names
Bottom line, a business will only buy a keyword it needs to make money, no one needs 'links' so it has very little value to public companies, sorry, but that is 'reality' not some bs about you can get X dollars per click. Most of you have domain names, maybe some of you learned in this thread, the reality that makes companies buy your keywords. If a business pays X dollars per month to buy a keyword you own, then they are sure interested in owning your keyword. If they spend ZERO per month on what you own, why do you think it's worth a MILLION or 10 Million? Why? Because it's a 'cool keyword', cool doesn't make money in PPC, SEO and SEM, sponsors lining up to buy position for major business terms that MAKE MONEY is what companies shell out money in deciding to BUY KEYWORDS. Unlike most if not all of you here, I'm in the real life business world running SEM campaigns for a ton of clients, I justify keyword buys all the time to my clients, I take a heavy commission in names I acquire for them, or I get 50% of the difference from a target price and an acquiring price, and no, I'm not here talking down the price of links.com to acquire it for a client, I gave an opinion based on my business experience and it was laughed at by some, now you're seeing why I said what I said, it's all related to one thing, my appraisals, who is buying it? That is the number one thing to determine the end user value to any domain name. So, my appraisal was based in business 'reality' and not some pie in the sky pick a number price that most domain speculators deal in.
Sorry to be so blunt, but, the ultimate value of any domain name, is what company is paying for the keyword. If you have lot of major companies buying a keyword, bingo, you can find a corporate player for it pretty easily, then it's pure numbers, you acquire this keyword ABC company at X dollars and with Y dollars of SEO it can be organic serps page one, the reason, it's the number one thing a search engine looks for, url or domain relevancy, you all know that right? That SE's number one determination in SEO is url relevancy?
I'm not here to give a lesson on SEO or SEM etc. I gave a simple OPINION for a nice domain name, a name that speculators think is worth substanial money, it's not, that doesn't mean some company with cash to burn won't buy it, but I doubt it
Just check sponsors for any keyword, that's the ultimate reality to determine any domain names value. Anyone else here making that type of noise about domain values? If they are, listem to them, if you want to throw around pie in the sky numbers that have no basis in business reality for them, fine, but to attack a factual appraisal based on solid real life figures (NO ONE BUYS LINKS in PPC at goog) then you have no clue as to what motivates any company to pay big bucks for a domain name.
The reason ABC company nees X Keyword from a domain speculator, is they pay Y dollars per month in ppc to get 'leads' or traffic from that phrase. If no company is paying to buy your keyword, that means it has no real life value to any company other than it may be a brandable name to start a project, so it moves from desirable end user keyword way down to a development project, there's thousands of brandable keywords like that, now owning what businesses dish out ppc budgets for is the key IMO to owning spec domain names.
Oh, why am I here? I'm about to change my 'sig', then you'll understand why I came to a wholesalers forum to hang out a little...
you like spreading disinfo, google didn't banish anyone from buying 'links' as a keyword,
I just put it in my rotation, I bought it for a minimum buy .10
yep, I know what I'm talking about, stick to girly web cams, oh, one of my companies was pivotal over 10 years ago creating the networks to handle the BW for that stuff, nice industry ten years ago, now everyone has a web cam, yawn...
PS PPC Update, there's ONE sponsor for 'links' at yahoo, linksxchange.info so there's another source that shows NO ONE BUYS 'links' in any major industry that makes money, a links x change is a loser business model, NO CASH REVENUE FROM USERS, you have to hope you can make revenue from what, adsense or some other bs business model, real companies don't consider reveneue from stuff like 'adsense' to be major revenue streams, sure they're nice for domain speculators to make reg fees from, but if you spend the time to build something on the net, I hope you have more than adsense revenue as your 'business model'. Anyway, you can buy links at google and yahoo, of course it's subject to 'editorial decisions' but, as you can see, NO ONE BUYS IT YAHOO either and there is one lonely sponsor, a links exchange, exactly who should buy it, a business with no major revenue models, so how can links xchange find 1M+ to buy links.com? oh, links.com is now page one serps at google, hahaha, nice. But no money in it, that I see, anyway, some want to say a desperation low price of 10K is not accuate, I've seen better names sell for less over 13 years of doing this, names with high market value to end users, so yes, 10K is a rock bottom price, IF the owner needed cash, if not, then 50K to 100K is the range for a wholesale deal and 1M+ is the high end value to an end user, but I don't see one buying it for 1M+, so original appraisal said all of this, 1M+ MAYBE (end user) 100K (high spec value) and 10K to 20K WHOLESALE (firesale bargain price) my range for a level 3 domain name. One sponsor at yahoo shows its value and no sponsors at google speaks volumes too.
