Dear Readers,

In a previous post I promised you an article in which I would attempt to explain the best way to maintain the pagerank of a dropped domain.

What I’ve been noticing a lot of lately are lots of expired domains with pagerank available to register. However they are all ORANGE meaning that they are not indexed by google, could be for several reasons. The main two are:

1- SEO blackhat methods used to obtain this PageRank. However there would be several indications for that such as an unusually high PR or the text being RED and telling you where it redirects to.

2- The index has been removed purely because Googlebot has visited the website and found nothing, which consequently leads to it being removed.

What I will effectively be showing you in this article is how to get THAT domain re-listed into google and as a result the reinstatement of the PR. Clever.. eh..

The first thing we need to do is establish what was on that website before, the page and internal link structure. Now I know some of you will be thinking.. but hold on.. how can we go back in time and look at all that… the google cache page is probably removed too. Well I tell you to fear not. A lot of people haven’t heard of or seen the wayback machine. It’s a great tool to show you the history of any website and how it changed over time. Some records even date back to the mid-1990′s which I think is pure awesomeness. The design of some of the big websites of today does look truly hideous when you look back at it. But I feel I am going astray from our main topic, so back  to it. We need to establish what the inner pages of that domain were and whether they still have traffic/links/pagerank. I have a tool which I plan to release for sale very soon to help with this matter.

If we look back at the process of domain expiration, let’s say asgsoft.net (which I used to own and lost due to lack of experience) it had a period of 30 days which I lost all control over DNS management, unless I renewed it. During that time it was in the hands of the registrar (such as Godaddy/Name.com etc.) and they would publish a standard parking page saying something along the lines of “asgsoft.net has expired. The owner has 30 days to renew the domain name from the expiry date.” And that is true. The owner has 30 days to renew it after it’s officially expired without any problems what so ever.

Assuming the 30 days are up and I don’t renew the domain then it enters the final phase more commonly known as “Pending-Deletion” which is a 14 day period during which I don’t have control over the domain at all. Now it’s gone, and that period is for backorder companies to allow them to place pre-orders on it, so once it drops it’s picked up straight away, which unfortunately happened with asgsoft.net.

Total time that a registrar’s parking page has been displayed now on asgsoft.net is 44 days! Now, if a domain has a PR1+ it must mean that it has an OK-ish set of backlinks. That would mean that Google’s spider (Cleverer than your ordinary spider) is visiting on a regular basis, and has most likely detected the change in the contents, maybe from a unique contents page to a more familiar parking page.

My theory is, once the parking page has been detected then the domain is ear-marked and once it remains on display for X amount of days, then the domains, which in that case is asgsoft.net is removed from the index. Yet the PageRank remains unaffected, but again, that is only for a set certain number of days say Y after it has been removed. Google is not commenting on this theory and unfortunately I don’t have exact values for the X and Y days.

I also think it’s extremely possible to convert an ORANGE domain to a valid PageRank domain in less than a week. Last month, I bought an expired domain PR2 I published here which wasn’t indexed in Google. I placed a small simple contents page and linked to it from a PR3 site, submitted it to major search engines using this tool and to Google itself, set up a sitemap and also added it there and also to Bing and waited. Within a week it was back re-indexed and the PageRank has been validated. It now is a Valid PR2 domain which I got for $1.99

So how do I get my domain re-indexed quickly?

1. Submit it to major search engines using this tool
2. Submit it to Google directly using this link
3. Create an account for it with Google Webmaster Tools
4. Link to it from other websites/directories
5. Have some content to the website

One thing I forgot to do was to add a Google Analytics code to it to monitor its traffic, so I shall be doing so in the next experiment I conduct.

What are your views??

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Enjoy

Abdul