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$62,500 Risk on SearchEngineOptimization.net — Taking a

Man buys .net domain name for $62,500 with big plans.

Some people like to talk big. Patrick Gavin is putting his money where his mouth is.

The founder of Text-Link-Ads.com just plunked down $62,500 for SearchEngineOptimization.net at BuyDomains. It’s a steep price for a domain who’s .org version sold for just $750 back in 2006. But Gavin has a plan, and he’s going to let the world watch him succeed or fail.

Gavin plans to turn the web site into a learning resource for search engine optimization. He’s going to chronicle all of his SEO work for the domain as he attempts to get it ranked number one for the ultra-competitive term “search engine optimization” within one year.

Just goes to show what SEO experts and domainers by now know: exact match domain names are a good foundation for search engine optimization.

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