I’m debating buying a domain for around $3000. It’s a two word domain name related to my business niche (boating). For arguments sake, lets say it’s boatanchors.com (pretty close but not quite it).
Google reports it receives about 15,000 searches a month for “Boat anchors”. The domain has a lot of value to me just for branding purposes but I’m also hoping to get some type in traffic for it.
Ignoring the branding advantages, does $3000 sound fair for a two word domain name that receives 15,000 google searches a month?
votrechien1, keywords in domain have nothing to do about searches. I can buy a domain ‘thisisstupidcrapfortest.com’ and outrank your keywords-rich domain without any problems.
Hi, The branded web address is very important and if you believe that the keywords part of the domain name you are about to buy are important do not hesitate to buys it. However go check the website trafficestimate. com and find out some analytical tools that would provide some more information about the domain name. Any seller would claim that there is a growing interest in the keywords part of the web address, but you must verify this. One of the option is to check this in your Google Adwords account.
believe me, unless it is a single word dictionary .com domain (i.e. boat.com or boats.com) it will not bring you any significant amount of traffic. In same cases you can get traffic with very common word combination, such as sportboats.com but much less than the single word one.
Btw I doubt you could buy boat.com or boats.com for $3000, it would be a steal, so I have to assume you are referring to a composed name and it is very unlikely people are entering composed names in the url unless those are very popular word combination such as sportboats.
Good luck and my personal suggestion is to keep your $3000 in your pockets…
PS: alternatively a typo of an existing domain could bring you much more traffic, but then you could find yourself in a dangerous ground and even possibly breaching a trademark…and I really cannot advice you to follow such a path as you can lose your domain overnight with a simple UDRP
if that is not developed domain name at all I do not think you should expect huge amounts of bandwidth. And I do not share the idea to buy soo expensive domain names…
I definitely wouldn’t count on getting any type in traffic. I purchased a domain whose keywords were getting well over 15k searches per month on Google. The domain is nice but the traffic still needs to be built up organically.
The domain name itself doesn’t really matter all that much beyond marketing value (as in, advertisements, word-of-mouth, etc).
If the domain is simple and easy to remember for people, you may get more visitors that way, rather than through an unpronounceable or hard to spell domain like mxyzptlk.com
That’s correct, easy to remember name is one of the best strategies when buying a domain. Especially if it also sounds cool (like godaddy.com, for example)