Is this domain worth developing?

As the title really.

I have the domain www.uk-job-search.com.

I am looking at starting a first site, do you think this could be a good domain to start with or should I not bother?

Any advice much appreciated.

 

according to adwords keyword tool that keyword gets 1300 exact searches per month... not a lot but still some volume. Any ideas on how you would monetize it?

 

It might be worth it, but will require a fair bit of work. 1300 searches is not a lot...

 

Where did you get that from?

When I search using the Google AdWords keyword tool it shows:

Global Monthly Searches:

135,000

Local Monthly Searches:

110,000

 

I went by the number from mktg, but I just checked and the exact number for "uk job search" is 2,928. You have to look at the exact search phrase, not any search with uk job search in it

 

Ah well here is my noobness showing!

OK, so in the tool I put quotes around it and now have got similar figures to what you are stating.

So what is going on when I put in UK job search and the results are 100k+?

 

Google then searches for anything with uk OR job OR search in it, and obviously this will show a much higher number. The value of your domain is much more dependant on you EXACT search results, ie. how many people search for the phrase "uk job search"

 

these are the people you are after to view you website, the ones looking for "uk job search". not people looking for 'UK hotels' or 'search for people'

 

Thanks for the explanation, well that is my first lesson learnt.

Well that changes things quite a bit

 

there will be many of them, trust me...anyway good luck!

 

Thanks again mate.

So when searching for keywords, obviously the more searches the better, but what would be a reasonable amount that would you make you think it would be worth developing?

 

Personally, if I am going to develop a domain I look for the combination of exact searches and competition. You may have 50K exact searches, but heaps of competition, which I would steer away from, or you might find something with only 10K searches, but little competition, where the potential is better. So, to answer your question, I would at least look for 3-4K searches if I was to develop any site, and if the search amount was that low I would need the competition to be low...Make sense?

 

Yeah makes perfect sense. Thanks again man, much appreciated.