just bought tld from a private collector - Expecting Traffic

[UkEcommerce.com]

Ive just bought the domain UKEcommerce.com from a private collector.
Ive started to build a website on there, and have added a forum, but I need to get more visitors and forum members.

I was expecting the domainm to get a fair bit of traffic naturally, plus being an exact match domain for its main keyword I hope it will rank well soon.

Any suggestions let me know...

[Jim Gillum]

Fair bit of traffic naturally?

In 15 years I have never searched for that term.......
and there are a lot of other folks...outside of the UK.....

Point being.......how many searches does that normally get?

[DorianG]

@UKEcommerce.com


I, too, was wondering why the domain name ukecommerce would generate organic traffic. It is exceedingly broad. Here is what a quick search in Google AdWords turned up for the search terms below:


uk ecommerce

Local monthly searches = 590 Broad [Global = 12,100]
Local monthly searches = 140 Phrase [Global = 1,900]
Local monthly searches = 28 Exact [Global = 140]


ecommerce uk

Local monthly searches = 590 Broad [Global = 12,100]
Local monthly searches = 58 Phrase [Global = 1,000]
Local monthly searches = 28 Exact [Global = 390]

Perhaps local monthly searches is far larger "in" the UK than from America, where I did my query, and therefore much more relevant. But it seems the Global outputs would be much the same. But even Global (for the exact term) doesn't seem to have a high search demand. I am curious; on what basis did you suppose the domain would bring its own traffic?

[Bob Barr]

One other point - what you bought was a domain name, rather than a TLD. The term TLD, which means Top Level Domain, is the ".com" portion of your domain name.

Yes, ICANN is now starting to sell TLDs but they're going for well over $100,000 (I don't recall the exact cost.) and only large corporations are buying them.

[demonblood]

The domain name(even if it is a tld or whatever) doesn't get automatic traffic. You need content. Incentivize users to join it,try adwords,social media marketing. There are hundreds of sources,you just need to be creative.

[rmg]

To start I would hire forum posters and buy publicity in a good related site.

[techielog]

the subject of the title is little confusing...just domain name doesn't help.

[Jim Gillum]

Originally Posted by rmg

To start I would hire forum posters and buy publicity in a good related site.

Forum posters...hired?

Just enough to keep the mods busy ....with bans...))))

[shaymm]

I hope you don't think that buying a 'top' domain (with no content) is a recipe for success.