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

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

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

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 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

Dear Readers

I know I haven’t posted a domain tip in ages but that’s because a deal I was in the middle of went up into flames. So sorry about that.

OK, lets get to the point.

You’ve just bought a domain from one of our daily published list and the domain has a valid PR3. It has some decent traffic (lets say around 20 uniques a day) Now what? I hear you ask.

I’ve discussed this before but what can you really do with it?

Well here is an idea:

Firstly create an account with Google Analytics.This is an excellent tracking website which gives conscience detailed

Add some content (making it unique) then add some PPC adverts.

I just started using them again, and as I was banned from google adsense and ineligible for yahoo ad network I had troubles finding a decent provider.

However I came across WidgetBucks which so far have been pretty good.

Maybe you could also sell some banner space.

I strongly don’t recommend selling any links on the website because this will get the PR and indexed pages dropped.

Anyway that’s it for me.

Looking foreword to writing next weeks tip.

Well you want to know a place where you can get domains that are about to expire?

OK I’ll tell you.

Have you visited http://www.deletedlive.com/ ?

It has an ever growing databse of domains which are all about to expire.

It offers an extensive detailed search for domains which are about to expire. The problem though is that they could be backordered and maybe ruining the chances of getting it, so a backorder would always be useful.

However I was told by the owner that they are plannning huge makeoveres for the site over the next couple of weeks that will make it live lists of available domains which have PR and also offer more statistcs about each domain, promising to be one of the best of its kind around.

Happy Domaining

Dear Readers,

This is an issue that concerns quite a lot of people. Does the domain keep it’s PR after it’s dropped?

Lots of people believe what fake PR checkers tell them and don’t bother checking how they reached their conclusion.

Google Drops the PR straight to 0 as soon as it realizes the domain has dropped. But as soon as it has a website again and gets indexed it gets it PR back. But how do you check if the PR is real or fake?

For the sake of demonstration I’ll use example.info as the domain I’ll use.

Now the domain has dropped so the Google site command will not work and will not show any indexed pages.

This is usually a good method to see if the domain is Fake if it’s still available because doing “site:example.info” would show another website if it was fake.

So what can you do?

Here are 5 Steps for you to follow

1- Check the PR of the links by typing “link:example.info” in google. If it shows some links with PR then the domain is likely to have a valid PR.

2- Check it’s status back in time using the wayback machine which goes back some time so you can monitor how the domain was doing and the older the domain the better it is because it has a higher value.

3- Check with Yahoo’s backlink checker tool: https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com. (You will need to register free)

4- Check the traffic ranking. I controversially suggest Alexa because it might be able to provide you with trends on the traffic.

5- Do you genuinely believe you can put original content and keep it up rather than making it a link far?

So there are other ways of seeing if the domain has a real PR.

I hope this clarifies some issues with my readers.