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Old 06-18-2009, 06:41 PM
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Default How much would you pay for cityrealestate.com URL

I'm negotiating to buy cityrealestate.com for my area. How do you decide what's too much to pay, and is there anything that I need to be cautious about.
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Old 06-18-2009, 07:01 PM
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Default Re: How much would you pay for cityrealestate.com URL

It depends on how dense the population is for the city and how many searches there are for city real estate. To get an idea of how many searches are done check out the Google adwords keyword tool.

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
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Are you buying it for a marketing perspective or an SEO perspective? Personally, I wouldn't pay too much it. Most of the time the people who have them think they are worth WAY more than they actually are IMHO.
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Old 06-19-2009, 08:15 AM
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Default Re: How much would you pay for cityrealestate.com URL

Depends on how big the market is. Def. worth a few grand IMO
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Old 06-19-2009, 08:34 AM
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Default Re: How much would you pay for cityrealestate.com URL

The market is hard to define. In this location there's about 150,000 people but we get a lot of out of province / country business.

I want it more from a marketing perspective, but anything that benefits SEO is a plus
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Old 06-19-2009, 10:14 AM
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Default Re: How much would you pay for cityrealestate.com URL

Similar question: How much would you pay for citystateinitials.com?
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Default Re: How much would you pay for cityrealestate.com URL

cityrealestate.com in a city of your size $5000-$10,000 USD (personally)

Citystateinitials - $1000 maybe.
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Default Re: How much would you pay for cityrealestate.com URL

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cityrealestate.com in a city of your size $5000-$10,000 USD (personally)

Citystateinitials - $1000 maybe.
For that kind of money I would focus on investing it into on/off site SEO and generate a ton of natural looking links that will more than over compensate for the lack of a cityrealestate.com URL.....just my 0.02.
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Old 06-19-2009, 12:10 PM
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Default Re: How much would you pay for cityrealestate.com URL

I have to agree with Agnafl, I would rather take that few grand and spend it on SEO, print advertising and etc.
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Default Re: How much would you pay for cityrealestate.com URL

I would tend to agree with Morgan. For my main city, I'd go as high as 10k. This would be in addition to what I would spend on SEO.
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