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Old 06-12-2010, 12:00 PM
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Hello folks!

This is a question about your preferences and tactics when buying aged domains.

I′d like to know what you would prefer, if a domain name that matches exactly to your theme keyword phrase is busy but expires after 10 days? Would you backorder it for $69 or just wait 10 days until it completely expires and then buy for an ordinary price?

This domain is 5 years old with PR0, without any backlink and content (ads only).
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Old 06-12-2010, 04:06 PM
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I would drop the domain name and the keywords into Market Samurai Rank Tracker and see where the domain is currently ranking for those keywords to see how much power the exact match has on its own. What is the Alexa rank? If the site isn't already getting massive traffic, then there is no way I would pay $69 for a PR 0 domain with no backlinks.
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Old 06-12-2010, 05:52 PM
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Thank you Dean for the answer,

I′ve done as you have advised. Here is the results:
PR:0
Alexa: 9,551,021
Rank Tracker: not in top 100 in Google (see below)

I don′t think that this site get massive traffic.
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Old 06-12-2010, 07:07 PM
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So the domain is essentially worthless, which means it certainly isn't worth backordering. Either wait for this one to expire or drop the keywords into to Domain Samurai and find something else with a high keyword density. I have several domains with the prefix of "my" (which only adds two characters) and several with one dash (which only adds one character).
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Old 06-13-2010, 09:40 AM
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Thank you, Dean, again. I′ll wait for this domailn expires and look what happens.
I have already droped the keywords into Domain Samurai and have found a domain with one character in the prefix. This character is "e" and as result I get density of 95%.

Could you comment this prefix? I have seen "my", "the"... but "e" is something new for me in URLs. Isn′t the domains suggestions that we get through Domain Samurai from Kenny Goodman?

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Old 06-27-2010, 01:57 PM
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Hi again!

The domain described above was renewed by the owner

Now I have three options:

1) a domain reallysuperkeyword.biz/us with 100% density, but .biz and .us (i want to work worldwide, so...),
2) another one ireallysuperkeyword.com with 94% density, but not super readable,
3) and the third one - myreallysuperkeyword.com - good readable, but with only 89% density.

If you were me, what you would choose?
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