A $2.6 million dollar pizza?

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Well, according to Dominik Mueller, Pizza.com sold for $2.6 million just a month+ ago in April. More on the sale here.

Should I use “free” or “thrifty” or “bargain” in my domain? Top frugal keywords…

Friday, May 30th, 2008

A popular search online is for things that are cheap. We look for deals. Why not? We’re saving the costs of the middleman by buying online, aren’t we? Wasn’t the Internet a revolutionary form of commerce which subtracts some of the traditional costs associated with manufacturing and or marketing a sale to [...]

Top 150 Real Estate Keywords

Monday, May 19th, 2008

Here are the top real estate keywords according to a search by my SEO Elite software program:
*I stopped at 150 because the search volume was getting low around there and 200 had several keywords without any inventory at all

Keyword
Searches

1
real estate
506,449

2
margate real estate
400,372

3
coldwell banker
74,060

4
homes for sale
63,108

5
duffy real estate
62,120

6
real estate agent
43,149

7
real estate property listings
35,459

8
real estate [...]

“Playing games” and “Ashley Tisdale” rocket up the top keywords list

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

In the latest wordtracker keyword list, the #1 phrase over the past 48 hours was “play game” and #3 was “Ashley Tisdale.” Games definitely gives sex a run for it’s money quite regularly given that children do a bit of the surfing or a younger population. However, “Sex” (#2 in the surge report [...]

People have STOPPED thinking about “sex” — wow!

Friday, October 19th, 2007

“Sex” was #57 according to Wordtracker’s top keyword surge report which measures the top keyword searches in the past 48 hours on the Internet’s most popular meta search engine – this is a HUGE drop & one I’ve never seen before. Either their list is relatively inaccurate or the word literally has been replaced instead by several other [...]

Most expensive domain names (series): Prices seem to be a bit lower lately with bidding for domain names

Saturday, September 15th, 2007

Lifts.com leads the pack recently with a $67k sale via Sedo. Another .mobi domain gets picked up for multiple thousands of dollars with PhoneNumbers.mobi selling for $28k in a private sale. Toy.net grabs $26k via Moniker/T.R.A.F.F.I.C. As reported earlier, two letter domain names are valuable. QI.net sells for $10k via Sedo. [...]

Wordtracker Keyword Changes Research - movement up and down in the top long term keywords for wordtracker

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

Not much movement in the latest Wordtracker keyword top 200 long term keywords. The most movement was “play games” moving up 2 notches on the large list of top keyword searches.
However, in the 2nd half of the top 50 from #28 through 50, there was a bit of volatility. Moving up 8 notches [...]

“domaining” and “domainers”

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

As the domain names industry grows to what this year is reported to be a $2.5 billion dollar industry in terms of registration sales & trading of domains [1], we may hear two terms more commonly used in Operations or Technology department of any company.
First, a “domainer” is a person or company which attempts to [...]

There are 138 million online domain names registered as I write this…

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

 Currently there are 138 million domain name registrations as of August 2007 (top level domain names [TLDs]) according to VeriSign in their Domain Industry Brief. This number represents a 31% increase from last year at this time and an 8% increase from the first quarter of 2007. .com’s represented the largest group with [...]

Wordtracker top keywords rankings list STILL alive…just got the latest

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Looks like I’m still getting this list for free and “sex” still tops the recent top 300 queries for the past 48 hours (ending August 28, 2007).  Not much change otherwise in the top 10.  The only phrase/keywords that seem to be something that’s moved up a bit is “free english course” showing perhaps the [...]