Golf Course
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James
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Interesting not many gold domains come up for sale, but when they do they go for big $$$ I know its hard to compare but www.Golf.tv in 2003 scored - $600,000
snoopy
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A lot of the "reported sales" from the late 90's/early 2000's were not genuine, this is one of them. I believe it was sold to a domainer at that time, but not for that kind of money.
DomainNames
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"Golf Course" is far more valuable than Yarra Bend Golf Course, or Brighton Golf Course. The problem with limiting your generic domain name by adding a "location" greatly devalues it to the whole market.
Im not interested in Yarra Bend Golf Course or Brighton Golf Course but I am interested in a website called "Golf Course" if its a portal for all golf courses or a great branding name for a major golf course to use in addition to its own name.
I note many domainers here going crazy buying hyphenated names, long keyword names and .net .au names etc. I think maybe they need to realise they might be over stretching the value of those investments to anyone else, search engines or in fact to anyone doing " type ins" using generic words
No one "types in" .net and no one types in hyphenated words. "Type ins" still account for massive amounts of traffic and value.
A "generic word" is always the best investment and of most value. One word is best, 2 words second best, 3 words third best and 4+ words useless and of no value!
Im not interested in Yarra Bend Golf Course or Brighton Golf Course but I am interested in a website called "Golf Course" if its a portal for all golf courses or a great branding name for a major golf course to use in addition to its own name.
I note many domainers here going crazy buying hyphenated names, long keyword names and .net .au names etc. I think maybe they need to realise they might be over stretching the value of those investments to anyone else, search engines or in fact to anyone doing " type ins" using generic words
No one "types in" .net and no one types in hyphenated words. "Type ins" still account for massive amounts of traffic and value.
A "generic word" is always the best investment and of most value. One word is best, 2 words second best, 3 words third best and 4+ words useless and of no value!
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snoopy
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Aside from typos when was the last time you heard of someone buying a .com.au because of type in traffic? .com.au's with type in traffic is a very limited market.
soj
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I was talking about searches specifically for "Yarra Bend Golf Course" and "Brighton Golf Course", as you would never get a search for "Yarra Bend Golf Courses". Not the domain yarrabendgolfcourse.com.au being better than golfcourse.com.au
Which was in response to Snoopy's comment of the plural being stronger than the singular.
DomainNames
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Would this be the best way to do it?
golfcourse.com.au/Yarra_Bend_Golf_Course
or
golfcourse.com.au/Yarra-Bend-Golf-Course
golfcourse.com.au/Brighton_Golf_Course
or
golfcourse.com.au/Brighton-Golf-Course
If they do this for all the golf courses they should see some incredible results in search engines and perhaps even charge those courses for 1 page profile minisites with the url ( not done much anymore but still profitable to some extent from end users who like it)
golfcourse.com.au/Yarra_Bend_Golf_Course
or
golfcourse.com.au/Yarra-Bend-Golf-Course
golfcourse.com.au/Brighton_Golf_Course
or
golfcourse.com.au/Brighton-Golf-Course
If they do this for all the golf courses they should see some incredible results in search engines and perhaps even charge those courses for 1 page profile minisites with the url ( not done much anymore but still profitable to some extent from end users who like it)
Data Glasses
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in this instance the plural works much better as a directory style site
Chris.C
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I'd opt for:
golfcourse.com.au/yarra-bend-golf-course
Once upon a time Google was unable to distinguish the underscore character as representing a space between keywords, whereas they could interpret a dash as an alternative for a space between words. I'm not sure if this is still the case (Google may have found a fix) but the conventional SEO wisdom these days is to opt for dashes.
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Underscores and hyphens are both recognized, however imo hyphens are easier to read.
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