Originally Posted by MickyWall

IrishClocks.com, what's that all about?

Originally Posted by MickyWall

IrishClocks.com, what's that all about?

Originally Posted by MickyWall

IrishClocks.com, what's that all about?

Originally Posted by Forbairt

Typo I'll assume

Originally Posted by decbohan22

That's fine. I placed a bid on TinyGirls.com yesterday for $3,500 as that is all I thought that domain was worth but it sold for $12,000.

Check DNJournal.com and you will see 1000's of domain names that go for amounts that just do not make sense.

I respect that you believe I am over pricing my domains but Google pays quite a bit of attention to domain keyword content without overspill or hyphens and if you doubt that (I used to - don't anymore) then you need to open a few Moonfruit.com (or Geocities or another free website builder) and use a keyword domain with one and none a non-keyword domain with the other and see which one gets in the top ten returns for the keyword search term.

I did this with IrishChauffeurs.com - I set up two sites on Moonfruit.com and made sure each one had five incoming links and five outgoing. I made the sites exactly the same and with four weeks I was number one in over 80 countries worldwide for the search term 'Irish Chauffeurs'.

'Irish Chaffeurs' does NOT have a high search volume at all so it made it easy for me but the site with the poor keyword domain couldn't get ranked by Google even though it had the same amount of links (the links are still out there but I took the Moonfruit site down).

It used to be that type in traffic was the only reason to buy a keyword domain name but I honestly believe that direct navigation is almost dead. I mean just there today I google'd YouTube and also Gmail -- why didn't I just type them in -- laziness? These two exmaples (YouTube & Gmail) are small urls - how about the large ones out there.

My point is that people are paying big money for a reason and that is because of their keyword content. One they are easier too remember but most importantly search engines rank pages higher with EXACT keyword content without hyphens. That is why the TRAFFIC auction gets such high prices for their domain names as thos guys know what's what with SEO.

A lot of people made money off telling people for years that keyword content didn't matter and if you pay them enough money they had all the keys to getting you site ranked. Just Google SEO and you'll see the promises.

Now I'm not saying that they are all conmen as some of them are very good and getting their clients ranked but it's usually through hard graft with getting links well placed both incoming and outgoing and most importantly getting listed on the right pages and not just some of those massive link jungles out there.

I bought a few domains that were blacklisted by Google and it took me ages getting the site un-blocked by them. Everytime I had a problem getting ranked with a new domain that I was messing about with I'd find 20 or 30 links in those link farms by the previous owners.

Look Davys Stockbrokers doesn't need IrishStockbrokers.com to get highly ranked - they could be called anything and they would be top as they are so well linked from well established websites that Google would trust.

However, I know that I (or anyone with good SEO skills) could get ranked in the top five positions of Google for the search term 'Irish Stockbrokers' with this domain. Now, you may say big 'whoppie de da' (or something along those lines) .. but take a look at Davys profits last year and tell me you wouldn't like a slice.

Hell I'd like a sliver of those profits and that domain does what it says on the tin. You wouldn't forget it and I bet the traffic I get are looking for Davy's anyway and they show up as the top ad I think

So, that's my view and I respect all of yours. I am a newbie here so don't want to step on any toes.

Declan

Originally Posted by davidbehan

Their on leprechaun time!

Wildly overpriced! Not a chance in my books!