Comments on: The case for Geographical development

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:42:06 +0000

I have not been on this site for a whilw so I thought I would take a look for an update this evening. I am in the process of researching a geo based domain/site at the moment with a view to going down the advertising route so the information really helps.

I find it helps to try different things in order for different types of sites to compliment each other and spread the income over different sources.

By: Zach at Stephenson Equipment

Zach at Stephenson Equipment — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:50:34 +0000

Your post really made me step back and reconsider my strategy. Generally, I’ve focused on big, high-traffic keywords and based on your explanation one should really look long-term and focus on sites in niches that may not be huge, but over time very profitable.

Thanks.

By: Chris Peterson

Chris Peterson — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 07:06:30 +0000

Hi Scott,
Awesome to e post! I know that some of the concepts are way too simple to be making the post awesome. But according to me, the most credible aspect is that you would save a lot of problems of being heart-broken, empty-pocket tough life simply because of few simpler & practically doable suggestions.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:43:28 +0000

I like the idea of your geo sites and the advertising/link building options that it brings could help towards supporting other surrounding websites/business ideas.

By: Adi

Adi — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:16:11 +0000

I’ll first let the community know about my site and will not target advertisers for a while. I would like the community to get to know my site and start using it on a regular basis.

Once I see that people/business are using my directory, I will then go ahead and sent out letters (no emails) to local businesses and let them know about the directory and the visitors the directory receives.

So, all in all, I won’t target them right away. I want to make sure people use it and them start “attacking” business with solid numbers.

Will let you know how it goes. I still haven’t finished the directory but I am planing on launching it soon (hopefully).

By: Stephen Reynolds

Stephen Reynolds — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:18:30 +0000

Great project this – and something that I have been doing non-commecially for a while.

Just wondering how you plan to contact potential advertisers without getting into trouble with the spam police! I haven’t really exploited any of my projects properly yet in terms of advertisers – partly because of some concerns about how best to contact people without it looking like spam.

Woule love to hear your thoughts.

Stephen.

By: patrick

patrick — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:35:00 +0000

I did the same think for two domains I bought. I could not get the area name so I did area+country/county. They still show a high volume of exact search in G, so I will give them a try.

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:53:48 +0000

Only buying reg fees at this point unless I really am confident about a domain.

Spent $400 dollars on my top keyword domain but I am certain it will generate plenty of leads.
Geos are more long term for me and will sit until I have time to develop them.

.co.uk and .com are gone – one redirects to a crap site and the other doesnt have a holding page – nothing.
The .net and .org are available though, 5400 exact searches per month.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:34:46 +0000

I see quite a few high ranking sites with their domain in that format, looks clean enough and relevant and if it’s reg fee it’s a good base to work from.

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:56:06 +0000

I have been looking around for geo´s – not too seriously as mortgage business seems to have gone through the roof over here but in my spare time I did find a nice touristic town.

All had been regged but doing some keyword research with Googles KW tool I did notice I could have the town name and the area as a domain.

So an example would be: CarlisleCumbria.co.uk instead of just Carlisle or AyrScotland.co.uk instead of just Ayr.

Thoughts on this? The stats look good and it will have the town name as the first word, I´m sure I could make a go of it, anyone tried something similar?