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What to do with dormant domains?

by jackcarr
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I have just over 40 domains laying dormant.

They are all decent names, nothing completely stupid.

Some people told me to cash park them, others told me to stick them up for auction.

Since getting into IM it seems that I could make a small blog network for SEO over the next 6 months?

I am probably underestimating the amount of work it would take to create that blog network so it would be good if someone that has done it before could tell me.
#domains #dormant
  • Profile picture of the author Alex Blades
    Do some cleaning and let some expire. Not worth keeping if they are just going to lay dormant and waste your money and time...


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  • Profile picture of the author JackieGold
    Originally Posted by jackcarr View Post

    I have just over 40 domains laying dormant.

    Some people told me to cash park them, others told me to stick them up for auction.
    You can list them on SEDO.com and do both at the same time.
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  • Profile picture of the author jamesrich1
    The jack of all trades is the master at none. Get one website super successful... Move on to the next. No need in trying to do 40 things at once. Focus on 1 or 2 at the most to keep laser targeted focus.
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    • Profile picture of the author italiangrecko
      I had asked a similar question in some other section of the forum. What about aging the domain names by publishing a one-page site? Especially useful for those who can put unlimited domains with their hosts? So that when we get around to working on them, Google will consider it to be an "aged domain" rather than a new one?
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    • Profile picture of the author HellaFamous
      Originally Posted by jamesrich1 View Post

      The jack of all trades is the master at none. Get one website super successful... Move on to the next. No need in trying to do 40 things at once. Focus on 1 or 2 at the most to keep laser targeted focus.
      sound advice
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  • Profile picture of the author jackcarr
    No way was I going to try and make 40 websites! The most I was going to do was but up a wordpress blog on each so I could backlink and do some of my own SEO
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    • Profile picture of the author jamesrich1
      Originally Posted by jackcarr View Post

      No way was I going to try and make 40 websites! The most I was going to do was but up a wordpress blog on each so I could backlink and do some of my own SEO
      By doing that you would be creating 40 websites... lol. And to top it off if you didn't do anything with the websites it wouldn't be worth backlinking them to anything.
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    Get rid of them and start 1 main/central website that you can dedicate 100% of your efforts on.
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  • Profile picture of the author Robert Michael
    When I got sick of my sites, I forwarded the domains to a relevant CPA offer or affiliate product while I wait for them to expire.

    So assuming they are still getting traffic like mine, you dont NEED a website to make $ with it. All you need is the domain, then just forward to a CPA or affiliate product.
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    • Profile picture of the author kolbywhite28
      Originally Posted by Whos That Guru View Post

      When I got sick of my sites, I forwarded the domains to a relevant CPA offer or affiliate product while I wait for them to expire.
      Would it be a better option if you tried to sell them instead of letting them expire?
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  • Profile picture of the author jackcarr
    Yea I am going to forward them to my main site. Nothing lost. Thanks guys
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  • Profile picture of the author Somathut
    I'm concern that if you make your 40 domain to seo network,it seem
    ineffectual for google now. Because i'm try to make it similar,but it seem ineffective.Present google is focus and value "seo network" less than past.
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