Comments on: Google tool provides leasing opportunity

By: Daniel Ryan

Daniel Ryan — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:05:26 +0000

Hope this works out for you .. i recently found a niche website name which has similar traffic levels but am aiming for the .me.uk variant as all else is taken. I’ll see how it goes!

By: Andy Ward

Andy Ward — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:28:37 +0000

Excellent breakdown of exactly how you achieve your results!
This is how I have been using this tool but I wasnt sure until this reading this article that I was actually doing the right thing.

One thing I am not sure about – why is it better to use exact? Up until now I had been using phrase for my searches.

One other question about using this method – If I had a site about Laptops and had the site Laptops.com and I found lots of similar keyword phrases that get plenty of traffic – for example I manage to register bestlaptops.com as well, is there a way I can drive ALL that new traffic to my main site rather than having it spread out over two? How can I take advantage of the second domain name without ending up with 2, 10 or 20 sites?

By: Goran Web

Goran Web — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:19:14 +0000

Clever thinking and well done on your acquisition, wishing you the best with it.

Onto the Google keyword tool how accurate do you believe the results to be.

Thanks Goran

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 09:45:20 +0000

Great post, Scott. It’s really interesting and useful to have you walk through the process. I was wondering if you use Google Trends much? Eg. if you fed those “leasing” keywords into Trends, you could see whether they are increasing or decreasing?

Cheers, Jon

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By: Nigel

Nigel — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:29:56 +0000

Nice buy Scott. Your methodical approach is a constant inspiration (no BS!).

By: Chris Guthrie

Chris Guthrie — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:25:53 +0000

I’d like to echo your comment as well Mikael. I always love the posts where you describe in specific detail the opportunity and then the steps you took to capitalize on it.

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By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:55:44 +0000

As position #1 in Google you’ll only get roughly 40% of the clicks for that search term anyway, so immediately that would lower it to 4000 clicks. BUT, unfortunately Google includes other sources in their data, so the actual traffic stats on that page are higher than you’ll see in reality. I just use them as a relative gauge against other search terms.

If you want accurate stats on how many searches are being done on a phrase on Google, then buy an Adword on that phrase with 100% coverage. Look at the impressions in Adwords and you’ll know for certain the number of searches. It’s not cheap, but it can put your mind to rest.

Also, don’t forget to highly optimize your page titles and meta descriptions to increase your SERP click-through rate.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:34:26 +0000

Could well be hit n miss BJRS, I have compared it to number one’s I have and see it being pretty accurate, perhaps me using UK specific results gives a better accurate result than the US version?

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:33:11 +0000

I see a lower re-sale value if the site was to be later sold to a business so yes there is value but not for me.

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:09:34 +0000

You use exactly the same method as I do. The “exact match” filter with traffic stats is excellent for figuring out market niches and domain niches.