Basic Domain Trick, Have you tried it? Does it work?

[Oscar D]

Hello,

Has anyone here ever tried this domain trick and does it work?

Here is an example:

Let say the domain phoneextension.com is taken, but I want to gain some of that traffic and challenge that site.

So if I go buy phonextension.com with just one "e" will I be able to rank high and gain the traffic that the search term "phone extension" gets?

Please leave your comment, especially if you have used this method

Thanks

[acedalright]

Kinda squatting without squatting.

Look, you can do it, but it's not really ethical, and you'll need a ton of mistaken traffic.

[theimdude]

Originally Posted by Oscar D

Hello,

Has anyone here ever tried this domain trick and does it work?

Here is an example:

Let say the domain phoneextension.com is taken, but I want to gain some of that traffic and challenge that site.

So if I go buy phonextension.com with just one "e" will I be able to rank high and gain the traffic that the search term "phone extension" gets?

Please leave your comment, especially if you have used this method

Thanks

Captain you can do that but if you would use phonextension.com and there is a big company call phoneextension.com your ship will sink

[Oscar D]

Thanks for the first replies.

That is just an example, I am going to use this technique for a few Adsense sites (I am not going to sell any products).

I just wanted to see what other Warriors experiences are with this technique interms of SERP and traffic generation

[theimdude]

It will still be referred to as squatting so the same rules will apply

[Oscar D]

I see, so will it be better to use a hyphen instead?

[Glenn Leader]

I don't think this question has actually been answered. It
looks like people have simply guessed at what might
happen.

I'll throw some questions back at this thread.

Why is this squatting?
Why will you suffer from the lack of back links?

Big companies' websites can often be out SEO'ed by
small fry. Think sub-niche here.. or even sub-sub-niche.
Too small for the big players to get involved with but big
enough for you.

To the OP: Good question, I hope that somebody
actually posts some facts and backs them up.

If you use hyphens in your domain name, that will
separate out your key phrases. So phonextension.com
will become phone-xtension.com or phon-extension.com

HTH

Glenn

[Oscar D]

Originally Posted by Glenn Leader

I don't think this question has actually been answered. It
looks like people have simply guessed at what might
happen.

I'll throw some questions back at this thread.

Why is this squatting?
Why will you suffer from the lack of back links?

Big companies' websites can often be out SEO'ed by
small fry. Think sub-niche here.. or even sub-sub-niche.
Too small for the big players to get involved with but big
enough for you.

To the OP: Good question, I hope that somebody
actually posts some facts and backs them up.

If you use hyphens in your domain name, that will
separate out your key phrases. So phonextension.com
will become phone-xtension.com or phon-extension.com

HTH

Glenn

YES! Thank you,

Thank you very much for coming into this thread.

This is exactly what this thread needed, a new outlook on this and to challenge what everyone here is guessing.

Thanks again

[sbucciarel]

It's cybersquatting because any time you try to benefit on someone else's traffic by registering a very similar domain or a typo domain, it's cybersquatting or typosquatting. If the original site has a trademark on the domain, they can and probably will order a cease and desist.

[George Wright]

Hi,

Just getting a nice domain, may or may not cause some ranking. If you mean page rank (the little green bar in the google tool bar) "Just the name" will have little to do with it if any. Here is where your SEO skills come in to play.

If you mean by rank the position your site comes up on page one of Google a name can do it if it has "it." I bought a name on a whim a year or so ago and the name alone has me on page one position 3-5 since the day I bought it. I bought 2 more names just like it and they drop on and off Google all the time. Mostly they are off and not seen at all but that first name just hangs there. Even when the site was parked when I forgot to pay the hosting the google link was still #3 with the "description" "This site down for non payment." When I paid Google left me #3 and indexed an article on the site.

Sorry for the long answer but from my own experience a name may or may not get great position on Goog with no help at all from SEO. Then again it may need some help. People accidentally typing in the "misspelling" (removing one e in your example) will always get them to your site if they correctly spell the misspelling, but you know that.

George Wright

[Glenn Leader]

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

It's cybersquatting because any time you try to benefit on someone else's traffic by registering a very similar domain or a typo domain, it's cybersquatting or typosquatting. If the original site has a trademark on the domain, they can and probably will order a cease and desist.

If you use trademark domain names, I'd tend to agree with you, but not
when you do careful keyword research, this is using business smarts.

Glenn

[3magicalsteps]

Originally Posted by Oscar D

Let say the domain phoneextension.com is taken, but I want to gain some of that traffic and challenge that site.

So if I go buy phonextension.com with just one "e" will I be able to rank high and gain the traffic that the search term "phone extension" gets?

Definitely it's not ethical to do such thing especially gaining others traffic. Anyway, you call it a trick and it really is.

There's no guarantee in ranking high by just simply using keyword as your domain name. You have to back it up. Proper optimization (on page and off page) and proper insertion of keywords.

Good Luck!