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Old 09-07-2009, 03:07:52 PM     #2 (permalink)
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Just replied in the comments bit as its wrong due to crap data from Sedo

Its a good article, however I think the data its based on is incorrect (Sedo’s cock up not yours) and therefore its flawed.

From SEDO:

The “Hits” indicate the average number of times per day the domain’s parking page was viewed through direct browser type in, from an old external link, or from a search engine query.

I dont think that list is accurate, as a basic search for traffic (which is browser type in, old external link, or serps) in a few default settings gives :
robbscelebs.co.uk Make Offer – 19,035
uksingleschart.co.uk Make Offer – 5,312
corphq.co.uk Make Offer – 2,833
techstickle.co.uk Make Offer – 2,159

etc etc , all which ought to be on the ‘high traffic’ section but are not. I realise this is comparing a monthly traffic v daily traffic stats but even the crap names above would still show

Switching my search to .com:

er.com Make Offer 2 27,700

That would be in the top two / three at least. I am sure if I drilled down deeper there are much higher trafficed names on there as well.

All data sourced from Sedo – so something is not right somewhere, and my guess would be with the Sedo ‘traffic list’ as quoted.

As for type in traffic, I have a good generic that gets me an extra half million ‘free’ visitors purely from typein traffic, cost in PPC terms would be many thousands of pounds

I do agree that parking rev is a meaningless metric, but that is because people should not be basing a generic purchase on that alone as a decent domain name has a much wider ‘power’.
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