question about typos

[smashfactory]

would you register a .net typo? or just go for .coms-

before finding out actual type in traffic, would you see how many times it is misspelled in google to see how popular a misspelling it is?

 

[DNjet]

you would have to know for sure that the .net gets plenty of typein traffic before you regged a typo of it, overture with ext should give you a direction.

 

[smashfactory]

i am trying to use overture to check a few words- some words go in ok- but others, i put them in, and the overture is showing results with the name spelled the right way, even though i typed in the typo- why is it doing that?

 

[DNjet]

they have a spell checker on most words that corrects your spelling, but if you add the ext (.com , .net etc..) to it the spellchecker does not work.

 

[smashfactory]

ahhh- ok thanks

one more question...

lets use morgage (mortgage)
i would have thought this would be the cream of the crop- right?
google results for "morgage" - 1,480,000
google results for "morgage.com" 21,300
overture results for morgage.com- NO MATCHES



now- i am really confused- is morgage.com worth nothing????? you would have thought that would have been a GREAT name! please please explain this to me a little more.
i have a few names- a couple .coms and a couple .nets i want to register- they have no results in overture- but millions of pages in google have the word misspelled ;-(

 

[NURCA]

good questions Smash!

 

[fatter]

ahhh- ok thanks

one more question...

lets use morgage (mortgage)
i would have thought this would be the cream of the crop- right?
google results for "morgage" - 1,480,000
google results for "morgage.com" 21,300
overture results for morgage.com- NO MATCHES



now- i am really confused- is morgage.com worth nothing????? you would have thought that would have been a GREAT name! please please explain this to me a little more.
i have a few names- a couple .coms and a couple .nets i want to register- they have no results in overture- but millions of pages in google have the word misspelled ;-(

In many cases like morgage overture automatically corrects the spelling and gives results of the correct spelling so it is possible that quiete a few searches were done for morgage but not with extension, also morgage.com may have traffic but overture only kicks in at 25 so it is possible US overture score with ext is 5-24, I usually reg misspells even low overture scores without ext if it is a good paying keyword

smashfactory just to give an example of typos producing here are 3 typos I have that have very low overture without ext, one has none, while these are probably exceptions to the rule even small traffic names that pay at least a dollar a click can do well. You can add about 30 percent to dollars earned because i tried different parking companies throughout the year
xxxxxx.com 53 OVT without ext yearly earnings 260.00
xxxxx.com 123 OVT without ext 365.00
xxxxx.com no overture without ext 98.00

 

[smashfactory]

so, did you know that before you bought them? i mean with the low overture, what made you pick those names? how do you know ? i mean any name can tank i guess- bu what do you use as a guideline when buying?

 

[DNjet]

your analysis of morgage is the right direction, google is telling you that the word is getting mispelled often, those scores would probably lead me to reg the name, even though overture is not returning anything, BUT remember that it must be a high paying keyword because most likely it will get low traffic., something like a music , free stuff, myspace type, etc..etc..low paying keywords would not be worth the chance.

 

[smashfactory]

ok- i think i am getting you- the trick here is- go for domains with high paying keywords?
and, you wouldnt happen to be able to tell me what tool on this vast web can help me with that? ;-)

 

[DNjet]

go to payperclicktools.com , at the bottom left columb is overture current bid tool, this will show you what the bids are on overture (yahoo), but remeber you arent going to get that bid on a click, overture takes half , then a parking company gets their cut, so in order to get $1 clicks you will need bids of maybe 3 or 4 dollars.

 

[NURCA]

Excellent information that i haven't used in a long time. Very refreshing thread. I have a renewed sense of typomania. I used this trick with xxxxxxxxx.net and although I got the traffic, revenue was low about 30-50 hits in 3 days, I only earned 0.83 cents so I dropped the domain. It might be available again, maybe it wasn't such a bad name after all. I used to earn 2-3 every day with xxxxxxxxxxx, but sold the domain after several C@D's. But to add something, there is a very much used typo that you cant help but misspell that very few in the industry know about, that consistently earns for me. $85 for one domain on Namedrive parking. $66 last month for one on Active Audience. Very passive income. Dont you just love domains.

Thanks to all and once again good questions.
I'll be marking this thread.

 

[fatter]

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Just to add a little to your thoughts calvin, it is a good practice not to post your misspells , I have stopped doing this because google picks up these typos and gives them good position but even one post on such a board as this can mean the difference of a moneymaker or nonmoney maker. Best to stay under the radar

 

[NURCA]

Perfectly understandable. I no longer own those domains however. I will edit my post at your suggestion now. Please edit your quotes out I wasn't thinking.

 

[smashfactory]

its weird- maybe i just see things wrong ;-(
i would have thought, even if it is the wrong direction to go in, that if a word is misspelled say on one million google pages- it was a pretty popular typo.
if that many people are using the incorrect spelling on their webpages, if it is showing up in tons of threads- man, half the population spells it that way. and i would have thought, forget everything else- this is a name to work with because half the internet already spells it that way.
domains, cctlds. typos.... so much to learn ;-(