Can someone help me figure out the traffic coming to this domain?

Discussion in 'Domain Names' started by Anemene, Jun 21, 2012.

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    I've had baood.com for a year or two and it draws a steady trickle of traffic every day. I picked it up in a lot of domains I bought. It's been parked (like it is now) at a couple different places, and the traffic still comes. No idea what "baood" is. Only clue is that most of the traffic is from Spanish speaking countries in Latin America.

    Is it a misspelling? I have no idea, and weirdly it's mostly direct traffic. No consistent referrals. Can anyone shed some light on this?

    Thanks
     
    Anemene, Jun 21, 2012 IP
  2. ImageAuthors

    ImageAuthors Member

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    It sounds like Arabic, but I don't recognize it. It's somewhat similar to bi-'oud (with or on the oud, which is a lute-like instrument). Possibly a surname. I should admit that I'm not a native Arabic speaker. Only a hunch -- and quite possibly wrong, since it would be a transliteration of the Arabic alphabet anyway.
     
    ImageAuthors, Jun 21, 2012 IP
  3. atxsurf

    atxsurf Peon

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    how many UV's per day? probably some kind of typo. there is no traffic rank per alexa
     
    atxsurf, Jun 24, 2012 IP
  4. Anemene

    Anemene Active Member

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    For the last 18 months, steady at about 8.5 UV a day. Max of 64, min of 2, with the normal range between 5 - 20 UV's a day. It's not a lot of UV's, but they do click quite a bit. 14.22% CTR on the parked Adsense and Sedo pages.

    Thanks for your replies. I'm mostly curious if it's an obvious source of traffic/clicks I could better monetize. But it seems like it's probably a typo or a misspelling of a non-English word or name.

    Anyway, thanks again!
     
    Anemene, Jun 25, 2012 IP
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    It seems the domain name is actually similar to a person in saudi...probably thats the reason you are getting your hits, Lucky you :)
     
    frednjkin, Jun 25, 2012 IP
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    atxsurf Peon

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    since there is no alexa rank, could be a bot traffic. Or does it show in google analytics as well?
     
    atxsurf, Jun 25, 2012 IP
  7. Anemene

    Anemene Active Member

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    It don't have GA setup on it, but Adsense paid out almost $40 on it over the last 18 months (too bad they stopped Adsense for Domains). I'm not ruling out some automated system at work though. I can't see a pattern of traffic to suggest that, but who knows what a previous owner did with the domain. Archive.org is no help, other than the fact it was parked at Godaddy for some time. And I've never done anything to boost traffic. Never even a single link. No promotion, nothing.

    Thanks guys for all the ideas.
     
    Anemene, Jun 25, 2012 IP
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    if you park it at sedo, you can see the source (referrer) and GEO of the traffic in the traffic analysis tab for the domain in your account
     
    atxsurf, Jun 28, 2012 IP