Buying up Domain Names

Say you create a site about a specific topic/niche and got yourself an OK domain name, but there are also a lot of other domain names with keywords which describe your sites contents and would be equally as valid. Do you think it would be worth buying up keyword rich .com .net domain names (say like 5-10) and have them all point to you main domain where your site is?

 

Hello,
Maybe you will have extra work, because in my opinion you need to work building links for 10 sites.

 

I think I see what your saying. It just seemed a good option having loads of relevant keyword rich domains names all pointing to one place..

 

Yes, the idea is very good but I think you need to do extra work. This is my opinion, maybe I'm in wrong way

 

If you mean have just one site with multiple domains pointing to it? I would say yes it is worth it.

If the other domains have keyword combo's that people will type in or search then you have to get them as a defensive position. The more keyword combo's you have means the less your competition can have. Besides that you should get some natural type-in traffic. Well worth the extra reg fee's IMO

 

I pointed 80 random domains to one site and reach Google 2 page in 5 weeks.

 

Sure, registering them would be worth it, but buying in the secondary market is probably not.

 

Waste of money just registering them to redirect them. Won't do a thing for SEO. Register the other keyword domains in your industry, and create landing pages for them which all link to your main website.

 

it is a pretty waste of money if u'll just redirect, i agree with dcristo, you can benefit more if you make 5-10 other sites lol

 

It is only worth it if the other domains that are pointing towards the main site has some type in traffic.

Otherwise it would be more work rather then decreasing the work load.

 

well nice idea i also practise the same

 

I started my portfolio by only buying mortgage domains with the hopes I would sell a few and have extra traffic. Example: If you have buy hundreds of industry specific domains, each getting only a few clicks a day, you then get big targeted traffic. (Traffic has higher conversions also...)

A whole bunch of subpar names can have the same earnings as a premium one. In the end, renewal fees are much cheaper than high PPC rates anyway. Finding a good 7 dollar expired or unregistered name that produces 150 clicks or more a year, is a nice score.