Comments on: Quick Answers #3 - Old/Expired Domains

by: Utah Search Engine Optimization

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:03:47 +0000

Make sure you don’t change registrants or you wipe out the old profile.

by: Benj

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:04:37 +0000

I guess as you stated there are pros and cons to buying expired domains, but the question is, Is it worth it?

by: Tristan Bull

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:42:32 +0000

thanks

by: Forumistan

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:51:23 +0000

thanks for the tactics…

by: neil strauss

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:53:25 +0000

seo done right is the only way to do it!

by: Felipe

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:11:47 +0000

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by: Sheela

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:01:24 +0000

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by: Sedat

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:55:26 +0000

Thanks

by: SEO

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:58:07 +0000

Usually the just drop all the way to 0

by: drukarnia

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 07:55:23 +0000

Hmmm…it’s a very strange thing

by: Meselheal

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:44:36 +0000

I bought some expired domains last month and recently I found that the PR is dropped from PR3 -> PR2/PR1 now…

by: pelarge

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:42:30 +0000

Well I bought some expired domains last month and recently I found that the PR is dropped from PR3 -> PR2/PR1 now…

by: shrkscn

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:54:23 +0000

Very good information. But can you help me understand that if the PR of expired domain would be still carried forward if you are building a new content site on the expired domain. Wouldn’t the search engine reset the PR. I guess if you are building a site related to the expired domain niche then the PR juice should be carried forward??? What do you think.

by: steve

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:33:39 +0000

I had a domain which I no longer wanted, it was very specific by name, although it had a PR3, (it had had a PR 4 a few months earlier) someone bought it and I looked at it recently, it still has PR3 based on the original links, so sometimes it can work well for you

by: Lex

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:16:18 +0000

I’ve been looking into this a little.

I hear also that Google is resetting PR on expired domains.

However if a domain still has a lot of inbound links / was getting a lot of traffic prior to expiration, then you are going to get “accidental” pageviews.

There are of course various ways to monetize these - affiliate links, parking, 301 redirect, putting the name up for sale etc.

The % clickthrough from an “accidental” pageview is quite small… so I wonder how easy it would be to to grab domains which “pay their rent” and then some without running the risks involved in linking them to your other sites. Probably difficult… anyone doing this?

As Eli said, you don’t know the past history of the site although you can use wayback machine to find out *some* info before using the site to link to your network - but you have to know what you are looking for.

Another factor to consider is of course if the domain name is *keyword* - then you will get type-in traffic.