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Get
Traffic From
Expired Domains
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Each day 20,000 plus domain names expire and become
available for anyone to register. This is valuable if
you are seeking a domain to help you boost your traffic,
or are looking to resell the names for a profit.
Expiring domain names have been owned by at least one
person in the past. This owner may have built a website,
advertised, submitted to the search engines, or traded
links with another website owner.
So why would anyone who made any kind of effort with a
domain simply let it expire? Well, here are just a few:
- The Author lost
interest
- A company went out
of business
- Simply forgot to
renew the registration
- Could not afford the
fees
For whatever reason, that domain is now available for
the taking; and you can take advantage of all that work.
You could point it at your existing domain or build a
new site.
So, how do you know if a domain name even has expired
traffic?
While you can never tell the amount of traffic that is
going to an expired domain name, there are some factors
you can use to gauge this. Here are a few:
Link Popularity
Link popularity tells you the number of URL’s or pages
that link to a specific domain name. Basically, the more
links coming to a domain name the higher the link
popularity and the higher chance of generating traffic.
Additionally, a domain name with high link popularity
has a better chance of receiving better quality traffic.
Use
our free link popularity tool.
Alexa Rank
The Alexa rank is a measurement of a domain’s
unique visitor traffic and page views. The Alexa toolbar
tracks how many users visit a domain and grades those
visits as rank. Alexa will normally drop an expired
domain name after seeing no page view traffic for 3
months. So, if there happens to be a related Alexa rank,
this is a definitive resource for traffic.
Now if that Alexa rank is 1,000,000 or higher, then the
domain is really not receiving any traffic. You should
look for a domain with at least 100,000 that should
translate into at least 2 visitors a day.
Google PageRank
Google pagerank is a value from 1 to 10 that expresses
the popularity of a domain name based upon how many
quality web pages are linking into a particular domain
name. Pagerank can be used for two main reasons when
acquiring an expiring domain name.
- Building a website
to boost your main website’s pagerank
- Take advantage of
the traffic coming from the inbound links
If you have the Google toolbar installed, you can
discover an expired domain’s pagerank by typing the
URL into your web browsers address bar and looking for
the pagerank to appear.
Try
using this tool as well
Yahoo and Dmoz
Listings
The previous domain owner may have been approved by a
Dmoz editor or even paid for inclusion into a search
engine like Yahoo or Looksmart. When you acquire a
domain name that is expiring, you inherit these listings
as well. Do the research and search the directory for
the name by simply typing in the full URL for the
domain.
A listing in any of the top ten search engines will not
guarantee traffic, but will give you a better chance of
receiving quality traffic. At the very least you can
usually turn these domains around and sell them for the
value of the directory listings.
We have published a list of daily
expiring domains names that have the tools in place
for you to conduct all of this research for free.
As you can see, this is a very affordable way to gain
near instant traffic for your website. Try to purchase
domain names that are related to what kind of traffic
you need. As an example; if you need webmaster traffic,
purchase domain names that have keywords that are
appealing to a webmaster not a cook.
Author: WebSiteHostDirectory.Com
Date: 12/13/2003
Email: mkt@websitehostdirectory.com
The WebSiteHostDirectory.Com
is a resource for webmasters and consumers looking to
find a website hosting company or a quality expiring
domain name
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