I thought I'd share an article I just made on using keyword tools to find domains: Why Keyword Tools Beat Domain Tools For Researching Domains It's something I started doing a couple years ago in addition to going through expired domains lists and it's become a regular part of my domaining because of sales of domains I've gotten through doing it. I was inspired to make it through finding a couple of nice tools, one of them a great tool for putting together full geo keyword phrases, and another for helping with capitalizing keywords. I thought "man, these are awesome for domainers IF domainers knew how to use them to their benefit" and realized some people might not realize how easy it is to bridge the gap from keywords to domains. Conversely, I think we all know the pain of having to split domains into their respective keywords for doing research on them. Finding domains through keywords first can take a lot less time and often find some great names that have been sitting there expired for a while but undiscovered for whatever reason. I'll share in this post one thing that's not in the article, something I've started doing recently. We as domainers typically use Google's Keyword Tool on an individual domain basis to look up stats on its keywords. Lately I've had instances where I wanted to find domains of a particular category or subject (like poker for instance). So what I'll do is just put poker in there and let Google suggest a bunch of keywords (it will do up to 150 suggestions of terms including poker), then start doing terms like holdem to get suggestions of terms including it but not poker, then start doing the highest search terms from the results of those to get even further offshoots. Ultimately I might end up with 800-1000 different keyword phrases. Then I'll go through the process of turning them into domains (as explained in my post) so I can check them for availability. Especially if you have a site already of a particular category and you want to bolster what you have domainwise to support it, this is a good process to find the domains with the most searched terms in the niche that are still available. Anyways, I hope it helps some of you and I'll make some more informative articles soon.
Gold Digger is the best Keyword Tool I've ever used (and I have them all) It also checks the domain name availability for EVERY keyword it finds (very cool feature) But, you have to be a member of Brute Force SEO in order to be able to use it. I am a member, here is my affiliate link if you want to check it out (full disclosure) http://budurl.com/hesx
With KeywordtoDomain you can: Upload a file from the Google Keyword Tool (broad, phrase or exact searches) Select the tlds you want Limit according to average search volume The tool will then create the corresponding domain names (with or without hyphens) and register any that is available. Should be useful to anyone who wants build up a collection of keyword rich domains in a particular niche.
okay... devils advocate here. and the domains you get through this are good because? a) they get type in traffic b) they are good for SEO c) you have resold them for a profit ... any of these true?
B and C are definitely true. I make a living selling these kinds of names, i.e. names primarily based on solid search data that could just as well have been gotten through the Google Keyword Tool process I outlined. People buy them because of B. There is a human aspect to it of course and it's not as cut and dry as getting the names with the best search #s, but this is one of many processes one can do to find better names and since people SHOULD be doing keyword research on any domain they're considering getting minus short made-up word type names and other brandable names, this ends up being much faster than doing the reverse - finding names first and then keyword researching.
I do about 20% of my selling on marketplaces like Sedo and Afternic, about 20-30% in forums like NamePros and DNForum (I have yet to sell anything here amazingly enough), and the rest through merely fielding direct inquiries on the domains, usually by direct email but sometimes through a purchase link on the domain's parked page. It's good to get your domains seen by more people like through the marketplaces and forums, but if you have good enough quality domains, interested buyers will be seeking you out.