The Power Of Dot Net ?

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I have the chance to get a dot net for a search term that is receiving an estimated 4700 searches a day .

The exact search term also includes a search term that gets 7,000 plus estimated searches a day .

The dot com for the term I am researching is owned by someone who knows nothing in respect to SEO .

I have studied competition for ( my keyword , the main keyword , and all keyword with 100 or more estimated a day ) 2 days and see no reason why I couldn't dominate the term and in a little time the entire niche .

This is a buying niche . If people come to the site ... they are already looking for the products .

Just as an example ... one of the products sells everyday for $210, I can acquire as many of the products as needed for around $7

The traffic is there , the products is there . I have access to as many of the products as needed and will not have to pay for them until I receive payment .

So what am I waiting on ?

My question would be , do I go with the dot net or add a number or whatever to the dot com ?

I ask because I have never really done anything with dot nets but buy them to keep my competition from acquiring them.

And yes ... The warriors opinions carry a lot of weight with me .
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  • Profile picture of the author Lee Wilson
    No doubt you'll get differing opinions but I've done a head to head a couple of times on .com vs .net and found no difference whatsoever.
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  • Profile picture of the author butters
    I believe the common thing I hear on this subject, .coms are not more powerful then .nets, .orgs etc... The thing which does make a .com better is if it is a repeat person because most people put .com on the end of the domain name but if your looking for google traffic then I think they are the same. I haven't see no evidence which proves that .coms are better for SEO.

    I would go .net tbh and get the exact key word, thats just me though.
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  • Profile picture of the author Paleochora
    Buy both. Put a redirect on whichever you finally do not decide to focus on. Then, later on the 'rejected' one with the redirect, you make a supporting blog to add backlinks to the main site and feed extra traffic through.
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  • Profile picture of the author Zeus66
    You're good with the .net. I don't think it matters unless you're up against someone also good at SEO who owns the .com. Slight edge to them if so. Otherwise, big edge to you if you can get the exact search term you're targeting in the domain (and nothing else). Because you'll also be targeting that phrase in the title tag, the meta description tag, and probably a few times in page (including the h1 tag). That should do the trick as far as on-page goes. Then, as you know, links baby!

    If you need to borrow my monkey, he's trained up now on doing links. I told him it was earn his keep or get out.

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    • Profile picture of the author Troy_Phillips
      Thanks John .

      That was kind of my thinking but ... when in doubt ask those that have already done the testing for you I say LOL .

      Think I will let you keep the monkey . The last time I borrowed him... well I won't tell you what he kept trying to do to my ear .
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  • Profile picture of the author Troy_Phillips
    The number one spot on google uses the slashes . They also only have 26 incoming links . They have over 600 out going .

    From past experience , it has always been easier to rank a site that takes care of everything on site . The 600 + out going is the way to get the products . They offer no solutions on site .

    I am really leaning towards the dot net from the suggestions so far .

    Thanks so much Warriors and keep em coming .
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  • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
    Originally Posted by Troy_Phillips View Post


    I ask because I have never really done anything with dot nets but buy them to keep my competition from acquiring them.
    ROFLMAO

    Even though that dot com is not so great, is the term one that may be getting "type in" traffic?

    Seriously, that is the only reason behind getting the dot com.

    Are you planning to brand the term somehow?

    If you are just planning on search traffic for the bulk of it, just get the net.
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    • Profile picture of the author Troy_Phillips
      Originally Posted by avenuegirl View Post

      ROFLMAO

      Even though that dot com is not so great, is the term one that may be getting "type in" traffic?

      Seriously, that is the only reason behind getting the dot com.

      Are you planning to brand the term somehow?

      If you are just planning on search traffic for the bulk of it, just get the net.
      I would probably never worry about much branding .

      While branding is key to some of my IM ventures , I don't think this is the case with this one .

      There is about 1400 products in this niche and when people are needing them , they could care less who has them, they have to have them .

      Price and delivery speed is the buy now key .

      I actually have made some great money with this offline for a while now . Why I didn't put two and two together and go online with it before now , has me questioning my own train of thought :-)

      This is a search driven term. Most people searching have no idea where to turn . If it gets to the point of needing branded . it should be a simple campaign to let people know the low prices are a direct result of the network.

      Thank you evil twin.

      Troy
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  • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
    A .net or .org domain is just as good as .com, I wouldn't hesitate. The only differences between them is:

    1) Perception - everyone thinks .com is better because it's a story that been told over and over, mostly by people that have no understanding of why they even say it other than someone told them it was so.

    2) As Jill mentioned, .com is marginally better if you're expected type-in traffic. Unless you're advertising offline, type-in traffic is rare. People get around online by clicking links.

    Search engines don't care. I can show you .info sites that rank number one for some fairly competitive search terms. Example: craft ideas. The number one site for that search term is a .info site. The search term gets 450,000 searches.
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    • Profile picture of the author Troy_Phillips
      I actually do advertise offline for my local site that covers the same products .

      The online site will be purely search based and because of the lower price I can offer locally ( no shipping cost) I really do not want the two to seem related in any way .

      Thanks Dennis for the advice . Between your thoughts and some other trusted Warriors .... I now own the dot net . .





      Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

      A .net or .org domain is just as good as .com, I wouldn't hesitate. The only differences between them is:

      1) Perception - everyone thinks .com is better because it's a story that been told over and over, mostly by people that have no understanding of why they even say it other than someone told them it was so.

      2) As Jill mentioned, .com is marginally better if you're expected type-in traffic. Unless you're advertising offline, type-in traffic is rare. People get around online by clicking links.

      Search engines don't care. I can show you .info sites that rank number one for some fairly competitive search terms. Example: craft ideas. The number one site for that search term is a .info site. The search term gets 450,000 searches.
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  • Profile picture of the author GSX Enterprises
    I've had great success with .net and .org What it boils down to is your SEO abilities. A search engine is paying little regard to your domain extension, but more to your domain name, content relevance, backlinks, etc

    -Safe Travels
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  • Profile picture of the author dmtaylor247
    I agree - buy the domain, its the keywords, title, meta tags, links and your content that will rank you.
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  • Profile picture of the author MichaelHiles
    Funny... I saw that topic title and got all excited... "Finally!! Someone in the Internet Marketing world finally 'gets it' regarding the security problems, scalability, and overall inefficiency of interpreted PHP script based applications"

    Only to realize it wasn't MS DotNet you were talking about.
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