Comments on: A Domain by Any Other Name… 3 Steps to Securing Type-in Traffic

By: Profit Blogger

Profit Blogger — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:32:28 +0000

I have been looking to register a domain name and when I do I will probably register the most popular extensions as well. I probably won’t register many of the typos though.

By: CFernandes

CFernandes — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:36:11 +0000

Actually this type of “business”(registering domain names) accounts for about $1500 of my online income last month

By: Blogging Experiment

Blogging Experiment — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:57:45 +0000

Paul, that’s another good point. For example, if you have a multi-word domain name, try and grab the acronym url as well. If your site is BuyRedWidgetsOnline.com, you could see if brwo.com is available and let your visitors know they can get there via that shorter url as well.

Very good point.

Another variation of this would be to have different URLs for different advertising sources or different markets. For example if you blog about concerts you could also register CityNameConcerts.com where the city name is obviously the city you are advertising in or whatever. URLs are marketing tools as well and should not be ignored.

By: Paul Hancox | InternetInfluenceMagic.com

Paul Hancox | InternetInfluenceMagic.com — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:11:45 +0000

Interesting stuff Ben, although I probably wouldn’t go that far myself.

I do have TWO domains for my Internet Influence Magic blog – the one linked to above, and also influencemagic.com – I got the second, simply because it’s easier to remember two words rather than three.

So in places where I want people to remember my web address quickly, I can give out the shorter one, which redirects to the regular one.

Paul Hancox

By: Blogging Experiment

Blogging Experiment — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:30:41 +0000

I wouldn’t take it quite that far. I mean some typos are just going to happen. However, if you do something over and over then you might want to consider registering it. In fact, I believe there has been research done which letters are most susceptible to typos. For this blog, I own less than 10 variations. You just want to protect your type in traffic and your blog identity or brand.

By: FIAR

FIAR — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:07:36 +0000

Wow. That makes it sound like I need to buy like 30 or 40 domain names. I will think this over, though.