How many hotels are in Ballsbridge? 5/6? There's certainly no cheap ones!
It would take a while to get your money back on that considering there's only about 140 odd searches a month for that phrase.
No offence Dara - but even this forum is above the site for that keyphrase search. It's obviously not a competitive search, so wouldn't be too difficult to get to the top for.
I just can't see where you get your valuation from - but maybe someone else will.
A good few hotels in Ballsbridge - and the D4 Hotels site certainly suggests they are quite cheap!!!
140 searches for Cheap+Ballsbridge+hotels - but remember too that "CheapBallsbridgeHotels.com" is also valid for searches like "Ballsbridge Hotels" and "Hotel Ballsbridge"
No worries-and no offence taken and yes I know the thread outranks it. Hmm... shouldn't have tagged it
I'd say your right on the valuation that people on the likes of this forum would give it (and think I'm a mad greedy git)-however having just sold two Dublin hotel related sites in the past week I know IF you can find the right person they will pay. I'm going to surmise for now from your reply (and more than likely similar sentiments from other IWF members) that I'll have to go direct to sources/potential buyers myself in time which I'm happy to do. Thanks for the candid reply anyway. I'll let you know in time if I manage to sell it or not.
The reason I looked at the thread was because I felt it could have possibly been a good buy for one of our clients. But when I saw the price - I bawked!
There's no way I could recommend, let alone mention this to my client - I just couldn't back up its value!
Lol-you better tell me which hotel it is then before I begin my rounds in next few weeks/months to try an cajole money for the site.
With regards to ranking it top for Ballsbridge hotels-would not be an issue either in time but I'd have a higher price then.
We all have different perceptions of value and I know what some of these hotels are paying for seo/marketing
so to rank a site top for a few phrases like these for 2k would not be of value to me.
Fair enough Tomed-each to their own. I don't want to get into a tit for tat slagging match about what I am offering, what I've done, how long I have a domain etc.. That for me is all irrevelvant. As I mentioned already perceptions of value vary greatly. If I were a hotelier in Ballsbridge paying a marketing manager a very hefty 6 figure salary I would feel that a site outranking some of phrases I target with my own site good value at 2k buy hey maybe thats just me.
Ah sorry man - I don't mean it to sound like a slagging match. I'm just trying to state what other people might not see.
If I was a hotelier in ballsbridge, I personally wouldn't want the term "cheap" associated with my business, but that's another days work! And as for the marketing manager, he'd be out on his ear... If he suggested I pay €2k for this domain and site, he wouldn't get a reference
Seriously man, no offence meant.
I understand where you are coming from but disagree with the "cheap" aspect. Hoteliers will gladly take ANY business they can get from any source these days. Gone are the days of cherry picking exclusivity. I'd say it (cheap) will become a more and more searched componant in long tail and even shorter tail searches given the present "end of days" financial crisis we are all told we are in.
Who would have thought the serp Cheap Dublin Hotels would have 20 million results a few months back? Maybe I'm seeing things...but I see 20 million results at the moment.
People may associate cheap with value when it comes to hotels rather than a shoddy product-depends what side of the fence you are on. Anyway look at what sites/individual hotels are visible for the term cheap ballsbridge hotels-if they didn't want to be asociated with the term would they target it and pay for the privelage? Touche!
In fairness to the site and the 2k in my origional post I did say it could be re-gigged to specific requirements and offered a top 3 guarantee.
Thats fine Paul-dragged on a bit so sorry.Remember this is a "for sale" thread. If you want Dara, I will split this thread in to your initial post and the subsequent discussion
Thats fine Paul-dragged on a bit so sorry.
things cleaned up. no worries lads. Discussion is always good.
Just my 2c, Dara sure the domain has potential (although a very new domain) , you are selling something based on results that you don't have . I can't see it worth the price, might be worth closer to €300-€400 for the right seller IMHO.