Comments on: Buying Up Local Domains

By: woab

woab — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:33:43 +0000

I once toured an operation like this that had tens of thousands of domains in one niche. They had teams of content writers, and sales people calling businesses. I think it involves a good sales pitch more than SEO.

I don’t think it provides much value to businesses because he is probably just going to rank the sites for a very small set of keywords.

By: Working Nomad

Working Nomad — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:18:23 +0000

You could argue the guy is cyber squatting as well and then holding local businesses to ransom?

Not quite the same as buying the domain name of a newly formed company but where do you draw the line?

By: webjourneyman

webjourneyman — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:00:21 +0000

Not terribly creative, I read about schemes like this years ago on webmasterworld and webproworld. Think he should make a test run with perhaps a dozen sites before he goes for hundreds and hundreds.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:21:09 +0000

The strategy is not a bad one. You could possibly do just as well though using subdomains. I have heard of someone buying up all of these domains in the industry they worked in and later sold some of the places he wasn’t interested in for a nice profit.

By: Free Directory

Free Directory — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:17:54 +0000

I think the guy is living in cuckoo land

“He doesn’t actually know anything about SEO beyond that it exists”
Then how does he know what it takes to get to the top of page 1
“Major City & Dentist” is a hard ass term to rank for.

“getting the domains to the top, especially without any good content on the site” Is impossible parked domains do not do well

“His plan is to register lots of local domain names for various services.”
All the good ones are gone. Domainers have software to check all major cities with the word “dentist” for example

I could go on