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Expired Domains - How to find the best one's

by Dizank2
8 replies
Hey,

I have a list of about 50 domains that are very targeted to my niche.

These domains have all received some type of traffic.

How can I figure out which are the best one's to register for backlinks, left over traffic or any type of benefit to my website.

Searching Google for site:domain does not produce the results I would expect to see.

Searching for the name of the site reveals other sites linking to it from various places.

Some of these domains have been unregistered for 6+ months.

I have registered 4 of them, randomly, a few weeks ago. I am getting good results from 1 of them. I would like to pick out the good one's and just let the others rot.

I have tried looking at compete and searching the domain in quotes on google to find which one's look the prettiest. With no data for 6+ months on some of them, it makes it hard to tell.

Can anybody give me advice on what I should do to figure out how great an expired domain really is?
#domains #expired #find
  • Profile picture of the author nikita12
    Dizank2, You can check out various online services to evaluate your domain name

    1. SEOMoz Domain Authority - This is like page rank but maintained by SEOMoz (and therefore harder to fake). Its also updated much more often so will give recent data.
    2. SEMRush Traffic Data - This gives data on how well the domain ranks for various keywords and also on how valuable the keywords are. Awesome if you want a domain with existing traffic.
    3. AHref.com Back Link Data - This gives information on all the back links to the domain and how valuable each of them is.

    Hope it helps.

    Niki.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dizank2
      Originally Posted by chilldy View Post

      Honestly as long as the domain is similar to your Niche it doesn't matter. It's your content keywords that make the difference.
      All of these domains at one time, had content that was the exact same as my website.

      Originally Posted by nikita12 View Post

      Dizank2, You can check out various online services to evaluate your domain name

      1. SEOMoz Domain Authority - This is like page rank but maintained by SEOMoz (and therefore harder to fake). Its also updated much more often so will give recent data.
      2. SEMRush Traffic Data - This gives data on how well the domain ranks for various keywords and also on how valuable the keywords are. Awesome if you want a domain with existing traffic.
      3. AHref.com Back Link Data - This gives information on all the back links to the domain and how valuable each of them is.

      Hope it helps.

      Niki.
      All of those only show like 2 - 5 backlinks to the domain, which I know is not true. Searching "domain" in google shows more than that.

      I think it has something to do with being expired for over 6 months?

      1 of them I registered yesterday, in Alexa, could only see 1 month of stats because it only goes back so far.. but it had 35,000 visitors that month.
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  • Profile picture of the author dropmining
    Another good metric to look at is whether the same domain under different TLDs is registered or whether the domain has sold on the aftermarket before (see: namebio.com)
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  • Profile picture of the author chilldy
    Honestly as long as the domain is similar to your Niche it doesn't matter. It's your content keywords that make the difference. For example a domain I have is gamedigita. Now you really can't take much information from that name alone, but the keywords used on the website are of video games and that's what matter for search engines.
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  • Profile picture of the author businessframe
    opensiteexplorer provides really good back link data. semrush and compete do too!
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  • Profile picture of the author smartuser
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    i use expireddomains.net you can have pr1 or higher upon using this site. for sure. im not advertising it or whatsoever. i hope this helps
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  • Profile picture of the author bugzy
    For me, finding good domain is probably the hardest part of building a website. LOL, it will always took me 12 hours searching for a good term and deciding on whether it's already ok or I still need to research for another one.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dizank2
    Originally Posted by smartuser View Post

    i use expireddomains.net you can have pr1 or higher upon using this site. for sure. im not advertising it or whatsoever. i hope this helps
    Originally Posted by affshow View Post

    Yes, I do agree with you smartuser. Expireddomans.net really helpful. If you are interested, the links below is also great. namestation.com
    bustaname.com
    I don't need help with finding a domain. I have that covered.

    I need help finding pr, backlinks and traffic of an already expired domain.

    I'm debating just registering them all. What's the worst that can happen? 1 of 3 things. I loose like $250, I make the $250 back or I make more than I spent.

    I don't think my main domain can be penalized? The traffic will be targeted, it's not just like registering any domain.
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