your opinion please ..

[pendragon]

I've never really bothered with OVT before, but playing around today with UK OVT, I came across a 2 word combination with a score of 10000 for those exact 2 words (ie aaaaa bbbbb). The domain aaaaabbbbb.co.uk is available. Should I reg it?

 

[aquanuke]

whats the ov w/ext

 

[pendragon]

zero with extension but I cant understand why anybody would search for a phrase with extension instead of typing it directly into the address bar, or am I missing something?

 

[scooter]

I can't understand this bit either but some poeple do.

Google it and see what the competition is like. Being 10,000 OVT I would think the competition will not be too strong and think it's worth the punt, but only if you are prepared to develop.

Given that the term has been searched for 10,000 times through overture (yahoo) I think it's safe to say you can multiply this by a minimum of 5 for the same term being searched for on google. So I would also expect a little direct type-in traffic on the co.uk domain.


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[Edwin]

If it's totally generic i.e. "aaaaa bbbbb" is a common expression/phrase in English rather than something made up (e.g. "window cleaner" is generic, "microsoft windows" isn't) then that sounds pretty good. Overture is no guarantee of traffic, but it is an indicator.

Be aware that Overture can throw away linkwords such as "a" or "the" from time to time, depending on the keyphrase. So "buy dog" might actually be "buy a dog" but Overture dropped the "a". So don't let Overture override commonsense when it comes to grammar!

 

[retired_member6]

If it's totally generic i.e. "aaaaa bbbbb" is a common expression/phrase in English rather than something made up (e.g. "window cleaner" is generic, "microsoft windows" isn't) then that sounds pretty good. Overture is no guarantee of traffic, but it is an indicator.

Be aware that Overture can throw away linkwords such as "a" or "the" from time to time, depending on the keyphrase. So "buy dog" might actually be "buy a dog" but Overture dropped the "a". So don't let Overture override commonsense when it comes to grammar!

But equally google throw away those as well.

 

[paymatters]

It will be worth more if the 2 words are commercial i.e. describe a service. Especially if this service is one people pay a lot for on keywords.

 

[Edwin]

But equally google throw away those as well.

I think it preserves them if you use quotes around the search.

 

[yesterday]

I'd reg it, suck and see.

yesterday

 

[paul]

Be aware that Overture can throw away linkwords such as "a" or "the" from time to time, depending on the keyphrase. So "buy dog" might actually be "buy a dog" but Overture dropped the "a". So don't let Overture override commonsense when it comes to grammar!

Overture also like to mix words up sometimes, take the example above, if you do a search for "buy dog" you get this at No5:

35 british bull buy dog puppy

I guess it should read:

buy british bull dog puppy

So people may not be searching for aaaaabbbbb they might just be searching for bbbbbaaaaa

 

[retired_member12]

Yes, it has a terrible habit of putting non-phrased searches in alphabetical order, leaving you to try and work out the original word pattern used.

 

[paymatters]

Beware it's not an American term also if regging a co.uk i.e. auto loans ranks highly in overture but no-one English would search for that?

 

[BFTUK]

Beware it's not an American term also if regging a co.uk i.e. auto loans ranks highly in overture but no-one English would search for that?

Overture have 18 different international OV tools, so if you use the UK tool you'll get UK results....

 

[weycresto]

I'm not sure about so called "overture ratings" any more. Very popular keyword searches are massively overstated, yet less popular nice keyphases are hugely understated (and there are billions of combinations). You need to look for the "long tail" I think its called.

 

[BFTUK]

Overture is'nt that bad, the figures can, as with any of the alternatives (Keyword estimation tools!), vary.

The data would be more accurate if more people used yahoo, when was the last time you yahoo'd something? You don't you Google it!

 

[Lucifer]

zero with extension but I cant understand why anybody would search for a phrase with extension instead of typing it directly into the address bar, or am I missing something?

The argument (well-substantiated by data from Google Zeitgeist etc., showing that people tend to search a lot for, say, xyz.com) is that people have gotten so used to the Google search-bar that they use it as a kind of secondary URL bar.