Misspelled Domains

Do they really bring many visitors?

[WebDeveloper75]

Hi All,

I'm going to find and register several misspelled domains.

I heard misspelled domains could bring many visitors.

I know that one person gets many visitors everyday from mispelled domain Registerr.com (misspelled Register.com).
He runs his own domain registration business.

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What do you think?

Any suggestions on misspelled domains?

[edited by: Woz at 7:34 am (utc) on Dec. 3, 2002]
[edit reason] No Promos Please per TOS#13 [/edit]

[fathom]

Although there is possible traffic potential, these kind of things don't produce very good branding... and the change of return customer/clients is very limited.

most spelling mistakes are accidential, repeats are rare.

Best to keep these points in mind (although some businesses don't need repeat customers -- a plus).

[WebDeveloper75]

Thanks but if the main site is popular you can get m,any visitors. I know several people who use mispelled domains and receive many visitors every day

[fathom]

In general - the domain itself is useless, unless it has a physical site with it.

If just a re-direct, it will not produce top ranked positions in search.

In addition, if you duplicate a site to capture these mis-spelled errors your attempts would likely be in vain (e.g. - Google could drop both sites).

If however, the mis-spelling is on the domain name when used in the address bar (e.g. wigdets.com vice widgets.com and many people may do this, then the re-direct approach would work nicely)

If mis-spellings are search terms it is far better to optimize non-click-able graphics (spacers and transparency gifs) on the mis-spelled term since many tend to have very low competition and easy to captured top ranked position.

[crash]

some mispellings can cause legal issues as well.. google (for example) seems to go after registered urls that resemble 'google' and I can only imagine that someone like 'register.com' would as well since your riding on their coattails. if the misspelling is a common one for the domain you already own (or say, a dashed version and a non-dashed version) then yes it can be helpful