After reading an article on the landrush for .me domains I took a look on Google keyword tool for the most searched exact phrases containing 'me'. Aside from 'me' itself, the phrase 'charlie bit me' was no. 2 with 0.55m monthly searches. Luckily the domain charliebit.me was available and I grabbed it. My question is, given it is common knowledge that you get a head start with keywords in domain name would 'charliebitme.com' have an edge over 'charliebit.me' or vice versa?
depends on the on page text content and other SEO factors! I could still beat you with charlie-bit.me or charlie-bit-me.com though!
to sum it up for you, charliebit.me has absolutely no hope of chance against charliebitme.com. that being said, .net, org and com have edges on all other tlds, unless you are targeting a specific country, for example if you sell a product to only UK customers , getting a co.uk would be a better choice.
What's the commercial value of this phrase? The people searching for this are expecting to see a video of a kid getting bit by his baby brother (youtube video).
I'm just trying to draw some traffic and make a quick buck on advertising. Low risk, low maintainence, quick return kinda thing. There's a huge volume of chalie bit me content to post and categorise. I thought seeing the .me domain has had the fastest landrush in history coupled with the most searched for phrase containing me would be a good combination for gaining some interest. I've set the target audience to be US since that's were most of the searches come from. Unfortunately, the experts think exact url match isn't as good as exact domain match+ .com tld. We're only on day 5 now since registering the domain and I've made $0.60 :O and Yahoo have put me first for 'charliebit me', which may be a common mispelling... we'll see in a few more months.
excuse my ignorance, but what exactly is "Charlie Bit Me" about? I mean the phrase, what does it mean or what is it in reference to?
Could be but I never seen anybody say anything like that. .com domains are much better for brandability etc.
not only that if you type something directly in your browser and hit CTRL and Enter you usually end up on the .com Try "Wikipedia" for example. Type into your browser and hit CTRL/Enter Choose any word and nine times out of ten you end up on a .com though on occasions you end up on a .net
Oh OK - I have never heard of it, but then I have never watched a youtube video online either LOL. I have only ever seen the ones that have been on TV
Google has picked it up and it has entered in 17th in the US for 'charlie bit me' - 15k searches/day. For a site registered two weeks ago I'm pretty pleased with that. It's a good place to start out.