Domain LeftYour source to expired domains and tips

Dear Readers,

Here is a crazy idea that I have been toying with for a long time now! IS using Youtube as a marketing tool a successful idea or not? Lots of things could be assumed. Just think of the millions that go there daily. What if I can get exposure to my website through a tiny tiny fraction, 0.001% would do me to be honest That surely would drive traffic! There is only one way to find out!

So off I went to my “trusty” Movie Maker and created a 3 minute video about Domain Left, a simple movie of just animated text, to see what, if any impact it would have.

I have uploaded the video to Youtube for now, although I plan on placing it in many more locations in order to give it as much exposure as possible.

I shall be updating you here with any news of this trail and whether it was worth the time and effort or not!

For those that wish to have a look at the video then please go here: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oxMJi4jWASU

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Thank you very much for reading and please do let me know what you think of the idea!

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Dear Readers,

How about that! An Expired Valid PR4 domain yesterday for you. Whoever registered it must be so pleased.

Anyway I wanted to write this article for a while now and here it is. I wanted to say what you will need to do once you register a domain. This is what I think in my opinion and is what I usually do with nothing withheld from you.

So I have registered an expired domain with a Valid PR4 like the one I had yesterday. Now what?

What I would do firstly is find some hosting and add some contents, that would be several pages of unique content.

Secondly I would add Google Analytics so I can monitor current traffic and see what it’s sources are. I would also usually use Domain-Pop that gives a decent breakdown of the domains backlinks. The only problem I find with it is that it takes some time to get the PageRank of the backlinks in order.

I then would leave it alone for a week to see what current traffic is like, the sources of traffic, percentage of returning to new visitors and where I can improve them.

After the week passes I would check if it’s indexed in major search engines such as google,yahoo and MSN (Live) by entering these search queries:

Google: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Adomain.com
Yahoo: http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http%3A%2F%2Fdomain.com
MSN (Live): http://search.msn.co.uk/results.aspx?q=site%3Adomain.com The Kingdom Flightplan hd

If it’s listed then GREAT, you got indexed within 7 days, otherwise don’t worry, we’ll get there.

This step is a must to ensure constant indexing and a good SERPS for your domain. You would need to generate a sitemap for your website. What this does is generate a network of all the pages on your website and present it to search engines as if to say “Look here, I’ll save you the trouble of looking for pages, here is a list of the pages for you to index“. The best free tool I found is http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ which to be honest is great in every aspect of the word. It’s Free, Easy to use and has a nice interface.

Once you upload it you then submit it to google by going to https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/siteoverview?hl=en which is the base google uses to communicate with webmasters.

Recently MSN launched a similar service which does the same think, but instead, just for MSN at http://webmaster.live.com/.

Once you did that I really recommend the next step. Semi-Automatic Directory Submission for FREE. Digixmas have developed an amazing piece of software that will send it to 150 directories for free. You will only have to copy the CAPTCHA code, select the category and press OK. Their link is: http://www.digixmas.com/

Finally, to let everyone know about your website I really recommend adding it to Stumble Upon Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels download and Digg as they are visited by a lot of people with wide range of interests, and if someone finds it interesting they will for sure check it out. There are other networks out there but not as big as both the ones I mentioned.

After you did all the steps mentioned above give it 2-3 days and use google analytics to monitor traffic.

Let me know what you get if you followed these steps.

Do you do anything extra? or cut out any of these steps?

I hope you like this list

See you on Monday with another list of expired domains

Enjoy

I read a lot about this idea but never tried it.

I will try it and publish the results that I get.

But I thought of sharing it with you too.

Say you went and bought a domain from my lists.

Why not lease it, a bit like “Buy to let”? And offer a reward for any improvements they achieve?

I’ll try and do the same with http://www.99adz.com/ and publish my findings.

Have you done something similar?

Why not let us know?

Before we start, you need to see what backlinks you have and how they are PR wise. I recommend using this tool to see how your website’s backlinks are sorted. This is because it does the job extremely well and in a  nice format. However I must warn you that not all backlinks will be listed and I know the tool creators are working on it and doing all they can to fix it.

Also I have to make it clear that this is only an educated guess. This is becuase google wouldn’t reveal the acctual formulae they use to calculate PR becuase it would cause even more exploitations of PR.

Now that you have the details about your backlinks we can use one of these two rules to calculate what it would be most likely like:

buy The Sugarland Express Rule 1: 19 PRx links to get PRx (i.e. 19 PR4 links to get a PR4).
Rule 2: 4 PRx links to get PR(x-1) (i.e. 4 PR5 links to get a PR4).
Rule 3: 101 PRx links to get PR(x+1) (i.e. 101 PR3 links to get a PR4).

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Using this table its clear that you can see what you need to aim to get a certain PageRank.

Good luck to everyone

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