Comments on: Geo-domaining the easy way

By: Barry

Barry — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 22:23:37 +0000

Arabella,
I wouldn’t have all the sites look the same. It is worth giving them at least custom colors and graphics even if you use the same template. Each website should stand alone and look professional.
Using plural or singular names depends on the domain name you are thinking of. For example, TheCarSite.com sounds better than TheCarsSite.com but UsedCars.com sounds better than UserCar.com though there really isn’t anything wrong with the second option. Think of the words people would use in a search engine. If the plural is in more common use, then try to get that. The domain name does factor into search ranking. However over time, with more and more inbound links, it becomes less important.

By: Arabela

Arabela — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 22:48:29 +0000

Hi, interesting post. What about the developed sites for such GEOdomains. Would you model them from 1 blueprint design, so that all sites look the same but just have different GEO’S in it? And would you use plurals over non-plural in the domainname, for example ‘credits’ or ‘credit’?

Regards
Arabela

By: admin

admin — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 06:10:40 +0000

No problem. To be fair, thats on the top end of the scale. If you can make $20 and up on a domain costing $8 and have enough of those, you can do well too.

By: woolwit

woolwit — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:16:17 +0000

Barry,
Thank You! These numbers are the details so difficult to find. Without these sorts of reference points it’s impossible for those of us getting started to know just HOW bad we’re doing

By: admin

admin — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 06:28:43 +0000

It takes a lot of work to find a good domain or else brute force programming and tasting. I have one domain that is a major American city with carinsurance.com that make $5 to $25 a click and gets about 10 clicks and up a month. I bought it in Feb 07 and was amazed it was still around. I have others related to medicine, dentistry and fashion with state names that i have picked up in the last year that turn profits. I do not look at small populations for ppc and i wouldn’t recommend you do either. You depend on a percentage typing in so you need a large population to start. If you want to sell, then you could look at small localities.
End user geo domains to be sold need marketing in my mind. As i said, I think you need to use a web development group or go market them yourself. If you wait for the buyer, you may have a long wait.
Also if you are not happy with the ads being served for ppc, try other companies and see if you get better ads served.

By: woolwit

woolwit — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 04:27:52 +0000

Thanks for the tip! It may be that I’m either on the wrong track, or perhaps I came in too late, but could you give an example of a geo (it needn’t be one you actually own but perhaps close enough too it that the type-in ppc would be similar) that’s making ‘very good money’? (And if it’s not too personal, what ‘very good money’ might mean?). I drilled down to towns with as few as 40,000 and was unable to reg any realestate, insurance or the like. I decided to experiment with some end user geos- trades (plumbing, electric etc) because it seems like these would be valuable to local tradespeople, as in, printed on the side of their vans.
It’s probably early but so far this strategy isn’t working for me. These domains are meant to be sold to an end user- the ppc is minimal because the ads served aren’t local enough.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:46:11 +0000

I usually don’t buy them to sell them. I have some that make very good money from type-ins and some less so but all turn a profit.
If you are trying to sell geo-domain names, I suggest hooking up with web developers especially in the local area. You may need to give the web developer a percentage but it can work. If you make them aware of your portfolio of names, they can match them to clients and you give them a percent of the sale as an incentive. If you set this up with multiple web developers, you may even get them bidding on names.
I just think the usual outlets are cluttered and the goals is to get to clients who are motivated to buy. Who better than those going to web developers. Reminds me to make a post on this

By: woolwit

woolwit — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:05:15 +0000

Hey! Thanks for the spreadsheet! I think the hard part is building a good keyword list. Because the end user domain name in these situations is different than for your typical type-in domain.
I’m trying to build an ‘ultimate’ geo keyword list but it’s lots of work (yellow pages etc etc). Also, in the meantime I’m not getting any offers on some pretty good geos (medium size towns) that are pulling in upwards of 30 type-ins a month. I’d like to be buying a lot more geos but I’m taking a break until I find some liquidity.
What about you? How goes it in the geo sales dept.?