I would like to add that there are still profitable 2 keyword .com domains left to register especially in niche markets. Ok, some of them may not earn a lot; one domain, I earned $14,- trough adsense only over 6 months but it easily covers the yearly reg fee few times over. Now repeat this process several times and it will generate enough to re-invest (or pay some bills). I have similar projects in the pipeline that will do better.

I didn’t want this to be a commentary on Cohen’s acerbic writing style and lack of etiquette and professionalism, but he made some points that are completely without merit.

Longtails don’t make money? Really? What is a longtail, Mike? Is it a domain with characters over a certain count, like, fifteen? Or is it a domain with more than two-three keywords that count out 12 characters?

You don’t know because you also are so uneducated in domain research and analysis, you don’t realize that tens of thousands of “longtails”, very valuable, are waiting to be discovered and bought OOTB.

I’m not dropping any of my 14 years of domain buying experience here, but I can promise to people that El Silver’s article rings completely TRUE if you do your homework. There is a process to understanding longtails and how to monetize them. They can be very successful. I have made money from longtails parking them at WhyPark.com, the best service available to getting those esoteric “longtail searches” that more people are making each year. And if you know the right keyword “phrasing”, especially in an industry niche, you can bring in some serious high payout clicks and CPA conversions.

In the future, Mike CoHindrance, wait until you get a decade of experience in ALL aspects of domain monetization before you have the impolite gall to tell another domainer publicly he’s “full of sh*t”. What you accomplish with this kind of statement is to prove one thing:

Mike, if YOU tell someone they are “full of “sh*t”, it’s only because you probably tried to force-feed them your opinion and mistakenly believed they swallowed it.

http://www.galvanizedsteeltubing.com (three words, 20 characters, Google quoted search results – 24,700, adsense ads – 11, including a listing on Business.com.)

While it’s true that type-in traffic may not be anything to write home about, the major search engines consistently rank these domains within the first three pages of search results. It’s not at all unusual to see a first page ranking within two or three weeks of publishing.

If you choose a longtail phrase with more than 1,000 [EXACT} Google searches per month, the search engines have good reason to match your domain with an exact search for your keywords. So long as you have good content relating to the subject matter of your longtail domain, the search engines would be foolish not to.

Do all the SEO you like, but when all is said and done, a search inquiry that exactly matches a longtail multiple keyword .com domain name is the closest thing an algorithm will ever see to a perfect match!

You can thank Johnny nobody exactly 400 days after dropping the domain for the helpful advice

LOL!

Finding good domains with “potential” is easy. There is no shortage of finding good domains to develop… What johnny was hinting at though, is totally incorrect and he is so full of it.

But it’s all about development. Content, Content, Content that is the key. Forget PPC! Accumulating own advertisers or leadpartners is hard work but for those in the game and in it for the long run? Development is the name of the game.

You only need one full blown website to put yourself in business, that’s all. One domain which can rule a great part of a certain market can be your money maker. No need for thousands of domains. A few hundred good choices of names is enough to build your business strategy.

For those wanting to make a quick buck? They would be better off investing there money playing the lottery.