Before you go and buy an expired domain please read these simple steps that will show you whether that domain is a gem in the rough or just another pointless domain.
Firstly how old is the domain been indexed properly for? What was previously on it ? Is it something you can continue or even improve on?
Well to find out you use the wayback machine which will tell you all you need to know about its history.
Secondly did it get any traffic before?
People will disagree with what I am about to say but I believe that Alexa
is a good indicator of how traffic to the site has changed over time, becuase other than that you can’t really get anything that has monitored the traffic for your specific domain. The higher the nummber the worse, but its expected becuase it has expired. So look at the prime age of the domain rather than the last days. Possibly use a longer time-span to look at the traffic’s trend.
Thirdly and pretty important too, is there any decent backlinks?
These are extremely important for you to see what impact the site had on people. Did the previous owners manage to pick up backlinks from others due to the quality of their content? Or did they exchange a lot of links? Or did they just go and buy links? Backlinks Watch does a great job in showing you the backlinks the site has.
Finally does the domain have a valid PageRank (PR) that is lasted?
Usually when some domains expire and google realises it drops its also its indexed pages. Making it seem to have an invalid or unknown PR. However there are some good tools out there that would find out for you for certain. Newcastle move
Try all of these and see what you get?
I highly recommend the first one becuase its trusted and not easily fooled, however the rest are still good.
1. CheckPageRank.net: < Recommended
http://checkpagerank.net/index.php?n…in.com&links=1
2. VerifyGooglePageRank.com:
http://www.verifygooglepagerank.com/…yourdomain.com
3. iWebTool.com:
http://www.iwebtool.com/pagerank_che…yourdomain.com
4. SeoLogs.com:
http://www.seologs.com/pr-check/page…yourdomain.com
5. DigPageRank.com:
http://digpagerank.com/index.php?url…main.com&dc=18
6. PageRank.net:
http://www.pagerank.net/pagerank-checker
7. PRchecker.info:
http://prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php
8. DomainPageRank.com:
http://domainpagerank.com
Finally see if its indexed by google , and if it is, are there any inner pages with PR. I am working on a tool which I will submit here when I finish it. This would so useful because you can re-use these pages
So I hope that this artlcle shows you how and why you should get an excellent PR expired domain which you can maximise on both in traffic and profits. The possibilities are endless.
Enjoy and don’t get ripped off
