Digging For Gold in Typo Domains
This blog and this entire site are mostly a free time diversion from my daily job so I like to screw around with new things and poke at stuff with stick, last night it was typo domains. Typo domains get a bad rep for a reason: they’re mostly useless and they’re legally questionable. The useless part comes from the fact browsers don’t just default to .com anymore in the address bar they search so typos are not that valuable. Typo domains are legally questionable if you take typos from a brand or business that’s copyright protected, they can take you to court and sue the pants off you for your domains. We’re not talking about your soon-to-be-pantsless illegal cybersquatting type of typos, we’re talking type in typos for huge general word searches.
Typo Domains 101: The Basics
Step 1: acquire a typo generator. This is easily done by searching for typo generators online. Get a good one that gives you multiple types of typos relevant to domains, there are several ways people bone typing things in. Once you’ve got a typo generator then its time to find your keywords. Think of some generic words that people might search. The shorter the word less likely they are to be typos, there’s simply less letters. But shorter words are more common. Its a bit of a trade-off but you should have a preference for popularity and shorter words as you are trying to grab as much free traffic as possible. Also, for example, you won’t find any typo domains for the keyword “ssl”. Why is that? Because “ssl” is only 3 letters and most 3 letter domains are taken and most good 4 letter domains are taken. Explore several keywords to see what’s available but don’t go too far.
Identify the Best Typos
If you see a typo you commonly make on a word chances are a lot of people are making that same typo. Does the typo involve inserting letters in to a double letter set like “boloks” for “books”? That’s an unlikely typo, it may not be the best choice. Does the typo read phonetically somewhat like the actual word, like “boks” or “bookx”? That may be a more natural typo for some people.
The Aftermath: What Happens After You Buy a Typo Domain
Nothing. So you went ahead and pulled the trigger and purchased some typo domains? I already told you, its probably a bad idea. They hardly get any traffic. If you are tracking the traffic to a typo domain you probably won’t see any “typo” type in traffic for 24 to 72 hours avis generic viagra. That’s because DNS hasn’t propagated fully yet. Once your DNS record has been sent out and your WHOIS registration is available you’ll get a bunch of bot traffic. And by a bunch I mean 0 to 1 hits a day. Its not real people. You’ll also probably type in your own typo domain just to see, don’t forget to account for that if you’re doing any tracking. After that you’ll just have to wait because you’re basically parking a domain and that’s a risky game, its unlikely to generate much relevant, human traffic and even less revenue. Bummer.