Buying competing URLs
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Joker wrote: I think the trick to it all is working up your keywords to be as specific as possible. You want your website to have keywords in the title. That is how Google or any other search engine will find your site. If you don't have any or not enough keywords (even tags on your site), you will never rank well.
I don't know who it is, but there is someone out there in Googleland who does this. The problem is, his URL's may be keyword rich, but they seldom if ever have anything to do with the content that is put on those sites. As if he is tailoring the titles simply to get hits.
Eventually, Google is going to get wise to this and find a countermeasure to that tactic becasue that just fills the internet with garbage.
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Goldbug wrote: This is going to cost a bit, but if he owns the original site and domain it might be worth it. If the company takes off, he doesn't want them grabbed by someone else first
That is a good point. Sometimes you have to pay so the competition isn't so competitive. I sure hope he knows what he's doing though.
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FrankN wrote: I would be curious to know how much it cost for each extension.
It all depends on what the extension itself is. They can range for $1 dollar to $50 dollars. A .in extension is probably rising in price due to the insane rise in internet usage in India, while .au (Australia) might not be as much
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Goldbug wrote: If he's buying versions of someone else's domain, it's not worth it as far as I know. The main company won't buy it, they will just let it sit, and only take action if the content is offensive, and parked domains get dropped from search engines quickly so you're relying on mistyping for traffic.
Which is why, in my opinion, this method of trying to make money is akin to grasping at straws. Aside from making a typing mistake, you have to remember that the U.K. has different spellings of the same U.S. word......like catalog for instance.
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If he's buying versions of someone else's domain, it's not worth it as far as I know. The main company won't buy it, they will just let it sit, and only take action if the content is offensive, and parked domains get dropped from search engines quickly so you're relying on mistyping for traffic.
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My concern is that registering all of these names is costing a fortune, so is it really worth it?