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Adsense support is good news but Dot Tels are not ranking good at par with .com/.net/.org This is really a great news that now dot tel supports Adsense. But I think .Tels are not ranking at par with .com/.net/.org in search engines. Perhaps .com/.net/.org are ranking good because of there content-rich capability. As per my point of view TELNIC has to come-up with more options like ability to change font size of header text, few special meta tags like Description, Country, Distribution, Robots, Revisit-after etc. and Google should come-up with a feature where user can perform there searches on .tel domains only. Like we have “Pages from a particular country” option in google currently. |
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That's not been my experience with Dot Tels. I have set up a page at http://searches.mikeseaton.tel to check the position of http://MikeSeaton.tel on Bing/Google/Yahoo for a search on my name. The following results are for searches just conducted: Bing - Position 2 of 1,390,000 http://www.bing.com/search?q=mike+seaton Google - Position 6 of 1,020,000 http://www.google.com/search?q=mike+seaton Yahoo - Position 3 of 1,400,000 http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=mike+seaton Quote: [/size]
This facility is available at my search engine http://www.Net-Link.com/tel which uses the Google database to display only results from Dot Tel domains. Mike Seaton[/size] |
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Thanks for your reply. As per my point of view, "Mike Seaton" is your name, people dont search generally through your name. I am talking about generic keyword here like "internet entrepreneur, boat search, domains, sales, net link, search engine" etc. I must appreciate your work at http://www.Net-Link.com/tel. This is really fantastic. Great job. Keep it up. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.[/size] |
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I know people who have pretty good rankings (with in top 3) for competitive and generic keywords. Personally I have top rankings for generic keywords. I would say it's on individuals how they develop and promote it. But I would agree with the features like font size meta tags robots file hopefully Telnic will implement them in near future[/size] |
I have had some good results on Google and Bing. Here are a couple of examples on Google local search; Find one of London's best pubs; http://twitpic.com/1ckrot (top spot - recieving a few hits a day already. I'd like to think that this is how Michelle Obama located The Audley, but don't suppose so) Find a police station in London; http://twitpic.com/195s2c Google can be very quick to rank keyword strings quickly. Either in the domain name, header, or text, or all. For example including a product or service in a particular area; Search for a house for sale in london - top spot - http://twitpic.com/1ckszq And high ranking only 10 days after registering and publishing a domain - http://twitpic.com/1bc1zh - I only regged this domain as an experiment to see how fast Google would rank it and was surprised by the results. I hope people will be more optimistic about search engine ranking of dot tels. Just remember, if they aren't populated with relevant keywords (also think keyword strings - what phrases would people actually search for? - and get them in there) they won't reach the top. |
Obviously, you have good ranks for those keywords. But keywords are also too specific. For this search: homes for sale in London, nw1, nw2 You do appear on first page somewhere. But for this search: homes for sale in London You are nowhere in the first 30 results. The second search is more important. Of course, that the more keywords you put in the Google, that you have on your TEL domain, the better will be your ranking. But that is appearance. As it is not important what YOU search, but what your potential or target group searches on Google. For the search: police station w1 -- I did not get mayfair.tel nowhere in results. Don't bet on keywords such as "w1", that is not even a keyword. There is the effect that you get some appearance of ranking within 10 days, but true ranking are adjusted over longer period of time, and depends of many factors. TEL domains are certainly not the best tools to go for ranking results. It is also not the main purpose of TEL domains to compete with other websites. As TEL is like an entry in the phone book. And you will be found in new upcoming search engines indexing TEL in the manner like a phone book. Not even telpages does that. Telpage looks just as another search engine only for TEL domains. That is now how contact information shall be delivered to users. A good example of how contact information shall be delivered are these: http://www.anywho.com/ --- when you search here, you get the INFORMATION, not the excerpts from information, not the snippets from the website. http://www.eniro.se/query?search_wor...area=&what=all <-- this is Swedish "phone book", you can see results, ordered as they shall be, showing you directly information, structured, by phone, by location, by name. |
Good ranking I have many generics .tels, I have some good ranking, people usually use their city or state before the searches, I have my domains set up on a way that it fit those searches, for example: autobrokers.tel, if you search for saint Louis auto brokers, I am on the first page on spot number 6 out of 1,500.000, that is pretty good I think! Many more of my domains are getting good traffic because of the way I have them set up, especially domains that relates to service providers, like auto broker, body shops, caretakers, catering services, alternative medicine, commercial insurance etc, this are domains that I own and have a great ranking. I just thougth I share this info with you guys. |
Exactly, ranking depends of the webmaster's marketing and smart positioning. TEL domains are pretty new, and it takes some time to get better ranks. Anyway, TEL domains, like other domains, can be handy to attract new clients. That is what we do, we have real estate sales due to advertising of TEL domains. |
[QUOTE=JLouisBiz;7573]Obviously, you have good ranks for those keywords. But keywords are also too specific. For this search: homes for sale in London, nw1, nw2 You do appear on first page somewhere. But for this search: homes for sale in London You are nowhere in the first 30 results. The second search is more important. Of course, that the more keywords you put in the Google, that you have on your TEL domain, the better will be your ranking. But that is appearance. As it is not important what YOU search, but what your potential or target group searches on Google. For the search: police station w1 -- I did not get mayfair.tel nowhere in results. Don't bet on keywords such as "w1", that is not even a keyword. As I said in my post, the search results for police station are on Google Local/Maps. In fact a search for "police station" from a mobile in central London consistently gives top position to my listing (You see result "West End Central Police Station" - click on it and you get http://police-station.mayfair.tel) Search Google Web or Local, from anywhere, for "police station in London" and you will get the same listing in 2nd position. The point of the site http://homesforsalein.tel was to see how well the site could work for a specific area - in this case it was optimized for North West London. When you are offering a service or product in a specific area, terms such as NW1, NW3, W1 etc are definitely keywords. The aim is to find people actively looking for property in these postal districts. It's a bit like a long tail search term. If you are too general, your site might just get lost among your competitors. Although, as I mentioned before, I do have top spot on Google Local/Maps search for "houses for sale in London" see http://twitpic.com/1ckszq. The simple point I am trying to make is that a dot tel can rank very well on Google, especially Google local/maps. |
