shags38
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Hi all,
there will always be "bull at a gate" types like me (however I suppose everyone "matures" sooner or later) who will think they can make a bunch of money through registering really clever names HOWEVER in a general sense do you feel that the market place is smarter now by comparison to a few years ago?
Here is what I think ....... like many things, as the market, whatever market that may be, becomes more edumucated the potential to continue to sell a product or service that the potentials in that market have become smarter about becomes much more difficult. The examples are many.
The thing that has created the market for domainers is also the thing that will increasingly limit the potenial market for marketing domain names. How so? Through education. Prime example - 8 months ago I had trouble turning my computer on let alone be able to make it do what I wanted. Through making lots of mistakes and assumptions I have had to educate myself ....... (about time some would say) ........ and the internet is the best source of knowlege ever.
I can now not only find a website to find information I can now make a website ...... big deal !! I have been able to get 4 (four) websites in the top 60 search results (all within first 5 pages) of Google for the same search term .... "best 3d tv" ...... and these sites rank well for many other queries terms.
Trumpet blowing ...... nope ........ making a point ....... I was an internet and domaining ignoramus 8 months ago ....... I thought SEO meant Sell Everything Outside ...... but the internet, and forums, has edumucated me to know enough about website rankings to know that the name of a website, its URL, its domain name counts for very little when it comes to page ranking. It carries some weight of course, but very little in most cases. Most of the busiest sites on the net do not have the subject matter of the topic of the site in their domain name (when Yahoo, then Google came into being people were scratching their heads as to what these "sites" were about .
In the cases I mentioned above in my sites I have proven what I have read / learned to myself - using a name in a url that is not the term used for a key search term but that site ranks better than a similar site that does have the search term in the domain name.
I take a while to get to the point but I'm nearly there
So here is my assertion .... the new breed of people entering business, starting businesses - those in need of a website - these new breed will be / are already becoming smarter about SEO. "EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SEO IS ON THE NET" .... if you are prepared to put in the time and effort you can learn enough about SEO not to need to go running to a so called SEO expert - IN THE EARLY STAGES of website development (afterwards, maybe). Obtaining a domain name falls into this EARLY period obviously. These younger smarter people are going to know what we all know ....... the name of a domain means zilch, zippo, nothing, nyet, etcetera without good SEO ... and WITH GOOD SEO you can have any old name you like - good examples are the many, many SEO / web development companies that have names like red fox, blue disk, wally widget and so on ...... absolutely nothing in the domain name to indicate what the business is about.
I for one used to think it was the very first thing that was required to be successful in internet business (retail and services) - as did many others.
The demand for existing names will continually decline over time - there is no such thing as supply and demand in domain names - over 30,000 names listed on Netfleet - hunders are dropped every day in Oz - thousands daily Globally - Sedo has about 3 million names listed and are lucky to sell 1000 per month - there is certainly supply but no demand per se. (dot co hasn't come into existence because of a shortage of dot com names - it is purely a revenue generating marketing exercise using fear and greed in the main - large corporations dare not take the risk of doing nothing and some speculators (domainers) see a pot of gold.
Many will continue to make some money from domaining, no doubt about it however opportunities will become scarcer exponentially as the market becomes smarter - I perceive a rapid change as generation Y+ start getting into starting their own businesses.
Is this type of assertion new? I doubt it and I certainly hope not !! Hopefully those professional domainers out there will be very cognisant of this developing situation.
So I have made my comment - lets see what others think.
cheers,
Mike
please excuse any spelling or grammatical errors - it is late and I am tired
there will always be "bull at a gate" types like me (however I suppose everyone "matures" sooner or later) who will think they can make a bunch of money through registering really clever names HOWEVER in a general sense do you feel that the market place is smarter now by comparison to a few years ago?
Here is what I think ....... like many things, as the market, whatever market that may be, becomes more edumucated the potential to continue to sell a product or service that the potentials in that market have become smarter about becomes much more difficult. The examples are many.
The thing that has created the market for domainers is also the thing that will increasingly limit the potenial market for marketing domain names. How so? Through education. Prime example - 8 months ago I had trouble turning my computer on let alone be able to make it do what I wanted. Through making lots of mistakes and assumptions I have had to educate myself ....... (about time some would say) ........ and the internet is the best source of knowlege ever.
I can now not only find a website to find information I can now make a website ...... big deal !! I have been able to get 4 (four) websites in the top 60 search results (all within first 5 pages) of Google for the same search term .... "best 3d tv" ...... and these sites rank well for many other queries terms.
Trumpet blowing ...... nope ........ making a point ....... I was an internet and domaining ignoramus 8 months ago ....... I thought SEO meant Sell Everything Outside ...... but the internet, and forums, has edumucated me to know enough about website rankings to know that the name of a website, its URL, its domain name counts for very little when it comes to page ranking. It carries some weight of course, but very little in most cases. Most of the busiest sites on the net do not have the subject matter of the topic of the site in their domain name (when Yahoo, then Google came into being people were scratching their heads as to what these "sites" were about .
In the cases I mentioned above in my sites I have proven what I have read / learned to myself - using a name in a url that is not the term used for a key search term but that site ranks better than a similar site that does have the search term in the domain name.
I take a while to get to the point but I'm nearly there
So here is my assertion .... the new breed of people entering business, starting businesses - those in need of a website - these new breed will be / are already becoming smarter about SEO. "EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SEO IS ON THE NET" .... if you are prepared to put in the time and effort you can learn enough about SEO not to need to go running to a so called SEO expert - IN THE EARLY STAGES of website development (afterwards, maybe). Obtaining a domain name falls into this EARLY period obviously. These younger smarter people are going to know what we all know ....... the name of a domain means zilch, zippo, nothing, nyet, etcetera without good SEO ... and WITH GOOD SEO you can have any old name you like - good examples are the many, many SEO / web development companies that have names like red fox, blue disk, wally widget and so on ...... absolutely nothing in the domain name to indicate what the business is about.
I for one used to think it was the very first thing that was required to be successful in internet business (retail and services) - as did many others.
The demand for existing names will continually decline over time - there is no such thing as supply and demand in domain names - over 30,000 names listed on Netfleet - hunders are dropped every day in Oz - thousands daily Globally - Sedo has about 3 million names listed and are lucky to sell 1000 per month - there is certainly supply but no demand per se. (dot co hasn't come into existence because of a shortage of dot com names - it is purely a revenue generating marketing exercise using fear and greed in the main - large corporations dare not take the risk of doing nothing and some speculators (domainers) see a pot of gold.
Many will continue to make some money from domaining, no doubt about it however opportunities will become scarcer exponentially as the market becomes smarter - I perceive a rapid change as generation Y+ start getting into starting their own businesses.
Is this type of assertion new? I doubt it and I certainly hope not !! Hopefully those professional domainers out there will be very cognisant of this developing situation.
So I have made my comment - lets see what others think.
cheers,
Mike
please excuse any spelling or grammatical errors - it is late and I am tired