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Old 10-26-2008, 01:49 PM what do you think....
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I was thinking of buying another domain for my website, close to the most popular websites eg foogle, toutube, tahoo ect.

the idea is alot of people trying to acess these websites might miss-spell them and instead bring them to my website.

do you think buying a domain like this would generate alot of traffic to my website?
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Old 10-27-2008, 06:16 AM Re: what do you think....
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do you think buying a domain like this would generate alot of traffic to my website?
That won't generate traffic itself. To have more traffic having one domain name is not enough.
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Old 10-27-2008, 06:17 AM Re: what do you think....
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And of course when the people realise they are on the wrong site they will stay around and maybe they will click a few adverts.

Yeah Right!! Surely you don't think you have come up with a new idea do you?

It will get you a few totally useless "hits" from totally disinterested visitors who stay long enough to hit the "back" button
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Old 10-27-2008, 09:03 AM Re: what do you think....
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haha, well thats demolished that idea
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Old 10-27-2008, 10:06 AM Re: what do you think....
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You need to look at your own browsing habits and methods when you are looking at potential ideas.

How often do you mistype something, land on a domain parking page, MFA site etc and leave very quickly?

IF you go down the "domaining" route of gaining revenue you have to be prepared to do it properly.
By all means try the mis-spelling, type in traffic methods, BUT you have to be able to develop the site to utilise the traffic. It will have to be a site that can stand on it's own merit regardless of how the visitor got there. Do that and you might be able to convert some of them BUT the conversion ratio will be abysmally low. And of course give them a "Where you looking for ..........? Click Here" option. IF the site is simply a bunch of adverts .... forget it!

It's the same when buying expired domains and hoping to leech off the previous traffic (if any).
When you bring it down to basics, and no matter what you do, Make the site the best it can be for USERS and there will be some element of success, look at it merely as a vehicle to "make money" and you will be less than impressed at the results.
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Old 10-27-2008, 11:53 AM Re: what do you think....
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thanks for the advice chrishirst, I'll take it all into account.
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Old 10-27-2008, 12:50 PM Re: what do you think....
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They have 'toutube' so that they could get traffic just in case people might misspell youtube, and you want to get a misspelled version of toutube to get the remaining visitors...
So clever!
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Old 10-29-2008, 07:18 AM Re: what do you think....
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They have 'toutube' so that they could get traffic just in case people might misspell youtube, and you want to get a misspelled version of toutube to get the remaining visitors...
So clever!
That is old trick and once people come to your web site and realize they mistake they go away.
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Old 10-30-2008, 08:01 AM Re: what do you think....
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Listen to everyone's advice. It is wiser to introduce a new name and build a good reputation (or content) that goes with it. After a while, your hard work will bear fruit and people won't ever misspell your domain name.
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