Cost of a domain

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Not quite sure where this one should go in the topic list - but there is a very desirable domain name for sale at the moment with a Google pr 1, advertised as a domain for a rental listing site, serious offers only. Can anyone offer any advice as to what a 'serious offer' should be for a domain which could potentially be used as a rental listing site? Or is it more a question of "how long is a piece of string?"
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Post by reddevil »

Google PR1 is hardly worth anything. As for the desirable domain name, couldn;t you just use the same name but put .co.uk or .net or .eu on the end of it?

I wouldn;t pay more than the $10-$15 that it costs to register your own domain name.
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Post by la vache! »

Reddevil, The name is brittany-gites.com, so it is quite a good name for someone with accommodation to rent in Brittany. Most of the domain names even close to this have gone (I've purchased a few of the relevant .eu ones myself!)
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I agree that a page rank of 1/10 is not worth anything - although like you say the name is probably worth something - but to you or me for example, not to someone elsewhere!

Have you checked who owns it, what is required to transfer the name, etc?

I have just had a look - at the end of the day the .co.uk was up for registration on 24.09.06 and wasn't renewed, so this should come available.

I think it is worth what you are willing to pay for it! The problem with changing your domain name is that then you have to wait for your own page rank to go up and all that hassle that goes with it, etc. Is it really worth the trouble?

I have looked into selling a domain name that we own - holidays-in-brittany.co.uk It would cost - around £40.00 + Vat to transfer so take this into account if you make an offer!
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Hi Jacqui, I was just thinking of having an additional domain, my own website has a pr of 3 and seems does pretty well in the SE ratings! It was really curiosity as to how much people were prepared to own the right name.
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I know what you mean - come on then how much would you pay???

At the end of the day there will be people out there that maybe don't understand how to buy a domain name, get a website up and running, etc - I've met plenty - you probably have too :D

Many people don't understand SEO and how important it is - there are several people around our area that have got a domain name, had a website made by someone - usually using a template and they don't have page ranks, etc and yet they don't understand why they don't come up on google, or what a keyword is, etc! I find it shocking really!

Good news for us peeps I guess that do have an understanding, etc not that I am saying we are any better than anyone else, but when someone is relying on getting bookings on the internet, when the market is saturated with other gites/holiday accommodation how on earth can they compete??

We spend hours on SEO, submitting sitemaps, changing things so Google has a reason to send the spiders in and crawl, etc yet others just think we have a site - thats great - end of subject!!

I don't know how much I would be prepared to pay if the right doamin name came along saying that we also own our own as .com and .co.uk, but I think some people could pay quite a bit!!
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Susan,

It seems that brittany-gites.org and brittany-gites.us are still available at $9.95 per year.

Should I buy them and sell them onto you at the price you are willing to pay :lol: :o

I think there will always be some kind of alternative to purchase for the regular price. Eg. you could register my-brittany-gites.com or our-brittany-gites.com or holiday-brittany-gites.com, the list is endless. Now, how much did you say you were willing to pay for that domain name??
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Reddevil,
you have a point, someone is trying to make a quick buck (although I'd still pay more for a .com than a .org site!) I think I'll just stick with what I've got - I have an ongoing project of windows to replace and a couple of bathrooms to add to the gites and those projects take priority over purchasing domain names at the moment!
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I thought I'd pop in here to ask a question. I'm afraid i'm one of those people that Jacqui is shocked by.

Through advice from this forum I have started submitting articles to e-zines and have got myself listed on a number of advertising/ listing sites and when Christmas is over I will get onto that more seriously.

However, I think I have shot myself in the foot with my domain name, which is too broad. So my question is, would it be worth my while to buy another domain name but use the same site? I'm assuming that that would be theoretically possible? Or should I just carry on trying to up the SEO on my existing domain name with more links?

Please, I beg of you, don't talk to me in acronyms! I understand SEO, but most of the others go over my head.

I'd be really grateful for some advice here.

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Post by marcus »

Spain beach apartment is a good choice, with perhaps 250 searches a month - so pretty easy to come first in google for (the first few sites are all PR0-PR3 and without your domain name advantage).

Get that exact phrase as part of your title and description in your meta-tags and also into the <h1> line and then once or twice in the text itself, along with a slightly greater but still natural use of words like beach and apartment elsewhere in the text.

Then all you need is a few links to your site with the anchor text (the words people click on) saying the same thing.

Do a search on 'travel directory free submit' and try and get added to a few of them.

And of course your link here on LMH should also say 'spain beach apartment'.

One more hot tip - on your site where it says 'home' in the menu to get back to the homepage, change it to say 'Spain Beach Apartment - home'. I promise it helps!

Lastly, at the moment i think all your pages have the same <title> and <description>. This is BAD and is probably why most of your pages are 'supplemental' - otherwise known as in googles dustbin where no-one will ever find them.

Just give me a shout if none of that sounds clear

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Thanks so much, Marcus. Yes it is clear. I've already started getting links and I've had one e-zine article published. I'm going to write more, but I've just been down in Devon for the last week and now it's Christmas etc etc.

Yes, I do understand, and certainly my web designer will. I'll get him to change the titles as you suggest.

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Marcus,

Just one question. You say:your link here should say 'spain beach apartment'. I don't actually know how to make that into a link.

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Post by marcus »

I only found out myself a couple of weeks ago. The way to do it is in the signature part of your profile enter:
[url=http://www. spainbeachapartment.eu]Spain beach apartment[/url]
(without the space I added in the website name)

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Post by Topcat »

Thanks again, Marcus. Now I can do it with other forums I belong to as well. I'd noticed that on some of them other people's domain names were active, but I couldn't get mine to work.

My web designer has made most of the changes you recommend (poor devil, I bet he's beginning to regret taking this on. I did pay him well to begin with, but his responsibility seems to never end!). He hasn't changed the title of 'home' yet because it's an image and will take him a bit more time.

Have a good Christmas and a successful 2007.

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Oops, Marcus, it didn't work for me. I'm still doing something wrong. I copied out faithfully what you had written (without the space) but nothing seems to have happened!
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