Best Google Search Terms When Looking for Potential End Users

[Federer]

If I am selling SoundproofingCompany.co.uk, My search terms at Google.co.uk would be:

"Soundproofing Company' .co.uk email

This not only brings up a queue of relevant companies that could be interested in the domain, but email addresses will also appear in the search results saving a considerable amount of time looking for contact details.

Let me know your thoughts.

What works best for you?

 

[Skinner]

Wouldn't "UK" be better as it will pick up other extensions not just .co.uk ?

 

[scottmccloud]

Could this sort of search rule out those businesses that don't publish an email address on their website and use a contact form instead?

I've always thought that contact form messages have a higher read rate (just an opinion) but whether they're getting through to the right person is another matter.

 

[martin-s]

Could this sort of search rule out those businesses that don't publish an email address on their website and use a contact form instead?

Most of those forms will include the word "email" anyway

You may wish to change ".co.uk" to "inurl:.co.uk"

 

[Edwin]

intitle:"soundproofing company" inurl:.co.uk

And I wouldn't add the email qualifier, because they may not include "soundproofing company" on the same page as they publish their email address, or they may not label their email address "email" or use a contact form.

 

[Federer]

I like to use the email qualifier (without the inurl/intitle commands) as it does speed up the marketing for each domain as it isn't necessay, in this case, to click/enter into 70% of the websites, as the email shows up in the displayed results.

 

[mat]

I have found that you are much more likely to sell a domain when you get through to the right person such as the marketing team or MD.

For this I find any reference to email addresses for the company, then have a look on linkedin or Google for the person I want to reach.

You can then try and guess the email you need. For example you may notice that the company uses firstname@company .co.uk or firstname.lastname@company .co.uk etc

 

[wonder_lander]

I have found that you are much more likely to sell a domain when you get through to the right person such as the marketing team or MD.

For this I find any reference to email addresses for the company, then have a look on linkedin or Google for the person I want to reach.

You can then try and guess the email you need. For example you may notice that the company uses firstname@company .co.uk or firstname.lastname@company .co.uk etc

I often use the BCC for variations if I'm not 100% sure on format!

 

[wonder_lander]

If I am selling SoundproofingCompany.co.uk, My search terms at Google.co.uk would be:

"Soundproofing Company' .co.uk email

This not only brings up a queue of relevant companies that could be interested in the domain, but email addresses will also appear in the search results saving a considerable amount of time looking for contact details.

Let me know your thoughts.

What works best for you?

Have you tried buzzstream? I've got a trial running atm and am finding it useful for finding contacts

 

[TallBloke]

I have found that you are much more likely to sell a domain when you get through to the right person such as the marketing team or MD.

For this I find any reference to email addresses for the company, then have a look on linkedin or Google for the person I want to reach.

You can then try and guess the email you need. For example you may notice that the company uses firstname@company .co.uk or firstname.lastname@company .co.uk etc

I agree with this approach.

Though for the lower value domains that Federer has been marketing it's possibly too time-consuming?

 

[Skinner]

Would it be worth someone knocking a spider or macro together to do effectively search and destroy for emails ?

 

[spiderspider]

Would it be worth someone knocking a spider or macro together to do effectively search and destroy for emails ?

I do this in scrapebox

 

[Federer]

Isn't it illegal to spider/harvest email addresses in the UK?
I know that there are a few very good spider/email extractor programs that exisit that can extract email address from the homepages of relevant websites (based on the keywords you plug in) - it would save alot of time.... but not sure if it is legal.

 

[Edwin]

You need to make sure you're only emailing business email addresses ie email addresses belonging to companies. See for example:
http://www.seqlegal.com/blog/10-things-you-should-know-about-email-marketing

 

[Federer]

Yes I know that emails should only be sent to corporate subscribers (in at least 50% of cases, that is quite easy to detect with the very nature of the email address itself).
What I am unsure of is the legality of sending an email to a "harvested" email address (however targeted it may be).

 

[spiderspider]

Yes I know that emails should only be sent to corporate subscribers [.....]
What I am unsure of is the legality of sending an email to a "harvested" email address (however targeted it may be).

How would a recipient (or anyone else for that matter) know if the email address has been gathered by going to the website in person, or by using a bot?

Do you know, from the unsolicited emails you receive, if they have visited your site, or used a bot?

If the email is obtained from a site visit or bot makes no difference.

Most of the times you can say that if an address is on a website, it is there for marketing purposes, just don't send to hotmail, yahoo, gmail, etc addresses (which are easy to remove either in scrapebox or excel).

 

[Edwin]

You would need to manually check they are a registered company, for which you would need the full company name as stated on the website. Just because an email address is "admin@" or "sales@" or "info@" is not enough to confirm it belongs to a company - a sole trader or partnership could also set up such an email address and you'd fall foul of the law by emailing them. There's no substitute for a manual check!

 

[Federer]

It's very straight-forward to tweak a Google search so that most of the results come from (registered) limited companies, PLCs and LLPs.

 

[Federer]

If, on a company website, it says:

"Registered in England", company number.....

It is perfectly fine to send them an email, correct?

Are sole traders or general partnerships generally not registered?

 

[Skinner]

I'm not talking about a bot collect and send the emails, merely to gather the emails or contact pages, which it would gather Title, URL, Email/ContactPage for you to manually verify or send.

I think would VERY hard to put a case against someone sending an email this way, as who is say you didn't visit their page and click the email ? hell you could even do this after you've captured it.