xxxxx.co.uk OV 3500 1 type-in in 2 days

[aqls]

I bought a xxxxx.co.uk with UK OV of over 3500 with extension and it has had one type-in in 3 days, and even that was probably mine.

-aqls-

 

[retired_member9]

thnx
we'll try to learn on others mistakes

 

[aqls]

the domain ended in an s

xxxxs.co.uk

and the xxxx was popular brand letters.

It may be that OV stripped the s off before checking the .co.uk value

-aqls-

 

[Reddy]

Hi,

AFAIK OV ignores the plural when you check without the extension. E.g. checks for google and googles give the same result, however OV doesn't strip the 's' off when checking full domain names, e.g. google.co.uk produces different results than googles.co.uk.

Did you buy the name from another party or just register it?

Just a thought - would it be possible for someone to artificially inflate OV results, since the results shown are always about a month behind? Say, someone was to fire off automated searches for a domain name in order to up the OV results, then sell the domain name a month later. I'm not accusing anyone of this, but if it is possible then domain buyers relying on OV results need be aware.

David

 

[Ellis]

I don't see any OV

xxxx.co.uk 17
xxxxx.co.uk zip
xxxxs.co.uk zip
xxxxxs.co.uk big fat zip

Am I doing something wrong?

 

[Reddy]

It's not xxxxs.co.uk - the x's are just to hide the true domain name.

David

 

[fred]

I don't see any OV

xxxx.co.uk 17
xxxxx.co.uk zip
xxxxs.co.uk zip
xxxxxs.co.uk big fat zip

Am I doing something wrong?

Yes you are! xxxx was not the actual domain:

the domain ended in an s

xxxxs.co.uk

and the xxxx was popular brand letters.

It may be that OV stripped the s off before checking the .co.uk value

-aqls-

 

[Ellis]

Get it now - half asleep still

 

[aqls]

I regged it from fresh.

sorry atlanta1 for the cloak and dagger stuff!

-aqls-

 

[deconstruction]

it could be that OV removed the s.

or it could be one of those weird results.

there have been a few instances of names suddenly showing XXX or XXXX ov and getting very few (if any hits)

not sure what or who causes them.

i have bought a few xxx ov names and got no results.. and it droped back to a big fat zero the next month. I was gutted.

 

[retired_member11]

It's not xxxxs.co.uk - the x's are just to hide the true domain name.

David

You don't say.

 

[retired_member11]

I regged it from fresh.

sorry atlanta1 for the cloak and dagger stuff!

-aqls-

So it's not a scam. You paid 5 plus vat.

As you have the reg safely in your pocket why not just tell us what it is and then we might get a better idea of why the problem has come about. We would all like to learn....how to avoid this in the future.

Is there a reason why we can't know the name?

 

[aqls]

yes, the publicity - oohh the publicity.

[added] and the fact that you guys will probably c**k up the stats by visiting it!! (no offence!)

Never mind shouldn't have mentioned it in the first place.

cheers

-aqls-

 

[denchomsky]

I am curious to know whaat this name is -aqls- especially as you reg'd it from new!
Were you surprised that it had such a high OV before you bought it? Or is it that good that you were not surprised?
I reg'd 3 names last week that had OV's of around 9 all of them more than 10 letter names, and all of them have outperformed their last months OV by 2 or 3 times with a reasonable ppc.
Sorry

 

[retired_member11]

yes, the publicity - oohh the publicity.

[added] and the fact that you guys will probably c**k up the stats by visiting it!! (no offence!)

Never mind shouldn't have mentioned it in the first place.

cheers

-aqls-

What a teaser!

 

[retired_member6]

Overture is a strange one, one domain I have shows as 5 with extension but has received 147 views in half a month with 50% CTR - I believe it's a typo but my domain sounds better - it's true, it's one hundred times better . I only found out it was a typo after I had bought it, I simply liked the domain and the overture was a risk.

It's only once I grabbed that, that I understood parking really does work. I'm a kind of, 'got to see it for myself' person. So I'm quite pleased my efforts haven't been wasted. Up to now, being honest I've been lucky to get over a quid on a single domain in a month.

Have you checked the term with extension in the search engines? sometimes people simply put in the wrong link in one article, a user clicks on that article and gets an odd address, they then take a few words with extension that they feel were in the wrong place and place these in a search engine and see what comes up.

The domain could also have been dropped from an engine or once dropped and not recaught could have been dropped from the previous owner's network of sites. So not all results are a given.

I've got a few domains now that provide money back gaurantee so I'm heading in the right direction but whilst without dac access you have to make instant 30 second research on a domain if you haven't done so before drop, most of the time overture gets it right in my view but to help in any wrong prediction it's always good to draw up your own plans.

I'm still drawing my plans together but they involve, is the domain sellable, has it the quality to be developed in affiliate marketing as that's my basis for buying a lot of the time, is it over the right threshold for overture search, is it short, catchy and memorable, amongst a few other things - and all these decisions have to be made within a short time.

However, if you couldn't find anything suspect with the domain and at the time you felt it was catchy and sellable or useable then overture in this instance is a bonus as it was with my domain with 50% CTR.

I would have been quite happy holding the domain without any visits, but it's whatever floats your boat. Most on here I should think, would prefer, top keyword, high traffic, high overture example and high CTR with buyers queing up but in some instance high CTR and good CPC is just as good.

Afterall if you can buy a domain for £6.09 and make £200 a year from every domain you do that with, you're laughing. £200 a month even better but i'm not in that league yet, but if I continue with Domaining long term, then I will be.

 

[zehrila]

lol, you can post your name here and i bet you would get one more click .mmm hey btw what is OV ?

 

[aqls]

new ov on this domain w/ext 10,647 and total now of 3 views in - what - two weeks!

-aqls-

 

[Admin]

I keep a list of low OV names on my "think list", I record what the OV is in say December, wait for the January update and then compare movers and shifters.

This month I saw some 10-20 OV names drop to zero, and some 5-8 OV names go up to high teens - so I registered all those above 10 on the basis that they are showing an OV score across 2 months so traffic is likely. The problem with this strategy is if someone else sees the OV name during this time and grabs it before the update - so not a foolproof plan but it does increase my portfolio's earning potential by having mainly traffic names.

I would like to suggest we all scan our domains for OV and post OV scores vs number of actual clicks per day expereinced in our parking program (without stating the actual domain names). Perhaps this way we can calculate an average "unique per OV score" ratio?

 

[stevie]

I keep a list of low OV names on my "think list", I record what the OV is in say December, wait for the January update and then compare movers and shifters.

This month I saw some 10-20 OV names drop to zero, and some 5-8 OV names go up to high teens - so I registered all those above 10 on the basis that they are showing an OV score across 2 months so traffic is likely. The problem with this strategy is if someone else sees the OV name during this time and grabs it before the update - so not a foolproof plan but it does increase my portfolio's earning potential by having mainly traffic names.

I would like to suggest we all scan our domains for OV and post OV scores vs number of actual clicks per day expereinced in our parking program (without stating the actual domain names). Perhaps this way we can calculate an average "unique per OV score" ratio?

only 2 small ones left in my box..had 3 but one dropped from 12 to zero at the last update.. stats for this month
domain 1 = ovt with ext of [38] up 10 points since last update (106 views & ctr of 9.43%)
domain 2 = ovt with ext of [5] down 10 points since last update (18 views & big fat zero on ctr.)

these are 2 undeveloped domains with no history & never regged before..
domain 1 has shown an increase in views since the last update...
domain 2 has shown a decrease in views since the last update...

whilst its only a small sample.. past experience has shown that any of my domains with marginal increases in ovt score...do seem to increase in views.

I've had domains with ovt scores of 1-600 & they never seem to perform as well as domains with good link-pop...

cheers steve