Have one decentish domain

[julian]

in every major vertical and then call it a day.

Although there's lots of competition you might look back in 5 years time and think "if only i'd started a bit of that then" - sound familiar

 

[murph]

Totally agree.

 

[avgjoe007]

Would it be fair to say to newbies that it's better to focus efforts on one domain (for example one that gets high number of exact searches), even though those domains don't come cheap (prob. mid £XXXX) these days?

I'm debating outlaying a fair sum on one to develop it over time. Only thing is, how do you evaluate if the outlay is overkill or necessary investment? A domain with 500 exacts might cost you £250 and you may be able to get 3 of them with some hard work.

On the other hand, you may fork out mid £XXXX for one with 10K+ exacts...

Which is a better approach?

 

[Bailey]

There's far too many parameters to what makes a good commercial domain then the way your trying to break it down to avgjoe007. After time things can and do become a bit more intuative.

Read some of the sales threads where people have relied on CPC or Exacts only to find nobody else would touch it - no matter how cheap.

My advice to anyone starting out is rely on an area that you are familiar with - somewhere where you feel you can use your own experience and knowledge to buy into. 90% of speculation outside of that tends to be fools gold.

 

[kate-brownhill]

A "business associate" of mine once offered £15k for gardenfurniture.co.uk and was refuse point blank. Not even a counter offer. This was 3 years ago! They only replied to "her" emails after she reached £10k offer. Imagine buying that or any other EMD and then google turning off the EMD boost switch? Gutted.

 

[kate-brownhill]

There's far too many parameters to what makes a good commercial domain then the way your trying to break it down to avgjoe007. After time things can and do become a bit more intuative.

Read some of the sales threads where people have relied on CPC or Exacts only to find nobody else would touch it - no matter how cheap.

My advice to anyone starting out is rely on an area that you are familiar with - somewhere where you feel you can use your own experience and knowledge to buy into. 90% of speculation outside of that tends to be fools gold.

I tend to find that a more (but still nowhere near real numbers) accurate gauge of traffic is the google traffic estimator which, for some reason, can be well out of synch with the exact matches number quoted.