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Choosing a niche - concerned about domains

by jodiesmitham
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Hi all,

I am about to buy a domain name for a good niche keyword, but (as I posted before) most of the domains have been taken. Some of them are affiliate websites, left to rot, but others are simply timing out.

Can I deduce from this that the niche keyword isn't profitable? Otherwise those owning the domain would be updating and making money from these sites?

J
#choosing #concerned #domains #niche
  • Profile picture of the author Ross Cohen
    No. A site that could potentially make thousands a month could easily be rotting. The person could not have the resources to grow it, not have the knowledge to do so, or simply is busy doing "whatever else". I'm sure there are many domains with great keywords, in fact I know there are, in which aren't taken and could potentially be very profitable. It's just the time that takes to make it so - it won't happen over night, and it won't happen either "because of the domain".
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  • Profile picture of the author TopKat22
    Don't deduce it. Do the research and find out. Go to the Google keyword tool and type in those domain names and see what keywords they were found under by Google. If they are your keyword, then go make sure your keyword is profitable by does it have ample global monthly searches, for example, I use over 2500 exact match searches.

    If the Google keyword tool doesn't show any related keywords of that domain to what it was about or your keyword, then maybe the prior owner just didn't know what they were doing.

    However, it is my opinion that this is the most important part. Setting up a domain and a website in a niche that is not profitable or reachable by you is really a waste of time, money and energy and leads a lot of newbies to failure.

    You want to find a market, niche and keyword that is profitable and reachable before you buy any domain.

    I've posted about this before so look at my other posts or it is available to my subs.
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  • Profile picture of the author nrmillions
    you cant judge the potential of a keyword or domain based on whether it is currently developed into a site or not. i own well over 1,000 really good domains. i dont have time to develop that many sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author Keith Coppuck
    Good advice from TopKat22, but also be careful on the level of competition, try and find a niche that is either low or at the most medium competition.
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  • Profile picture of the author xXLewisXx
    the person might not have enough money, might be too busy, something better came up. there could be a number of reasons dont deduce that.
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  • Profile picture of the author jodiesmitham
    Thanks guys, really helpful. I did my research prior to this and there are over 3,000 monthly exact searches. The competition is shown as 'medium' in the Google keyword tool.
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  • Profile picture of the author Hayley McKeever
    Yes, as TopKat22 said, do your research thoroughly. Google Adwords Keyword Tool really is an excellent free tool for this. With regards to the domain, you really have to choose one that has your keywords in it. Don't stray from this if you want successful rankings, plus you need to be congruent. If, like you say they have all gone, then split the words with hyphens. Or you could go for .net / .biz or something similar other than a .com at the end.
    Hope this helps you.
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  • Profile picture of the author TopKat22
    I would only go with .com even if I had to add words at the beginning and end of the domain name keeping my keyword phrase in tact.

    If I wanted monkeytraining.com and it was taken, I'd go for bestmonkeytraining.com
    or monkeytrainingfornewbies.com and if those where taken, I'd add even more words
    like easyfastmonkeytrainingfornewbies.com if I had to.

    whatever it took to get the keyword phrase in the domain name and a .com domain.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    I was never one to care much about EMDs, I mean If the domain is available & it makes long term since then I'll get the domain.

    I see a lot of people on this forum get hung up on EMDs, I'm not sure why they stay so focused on the EMD?

    Anyways...

    Use the old noggin when you can't find the exact domain name you want.

    Google knows most abbreviations for words. Example, If I wanted the domain:

    introductionbasketball.com


    I would search my browser (never Godaddy or similar) for the domain name:

    introbasketball.com


    Which the 2nd shorter URL looks a lot better IMO, & just so happens that domain has never been registered.

    Now search Google for intro basketball, notice how Google shows the full keyword introduction baskettball in the SERPs, because Google knows that the abbreviation intro is the same thing as introduction.
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  • Profile picture of the author wordcatcher
    While picking a niche for affiliate marketing all you have to do is make a list of your hobbies and interests.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mr.Daydream
    somtimes they are available but only with .info, .org etc. ......... .com's are difficult to find sometimes but i would rather not use .info etc
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