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What You See? When Choosing an Expired Domain for Making PBN.

by Mominul Islam
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What You See? When Choosing an Expired Domain for Making PBN.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    The most important thing is the link profile. I also think the domain name is important, but not everyone shares that opinion.

    People have different feelings about how you evaluate the link profile, but that is by far the most important thing to understand.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mominul Islam
      Thanks for your nice reply.
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    • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      The most important thing is the link profile. I also think the domain name is important, but not everyone shares that opinion.

      People have different feelings about how you evaluate the link profile, but that is by far the most important thing to understand.
      I agree with everything Mike said but I would add one more final check. Put the domain name in the Wayback Machine and check to see what was on it at various times of its existence. Occasionally, we have found sites with some very bad things on them in the past, which has caused us to reconsider our purchase.
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      • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
        Originally Posted by dave_hermansen View Post

        Occasionally, we have found sites with some very bad things on them in the past, which has caused us to reconsider our purchase.
        That's a consideration when the domain has been inactive for awhile and therefor no longer indexed by Google but if its still indexed then its of little consideration(except for the incoming links). If google hasn't penalized the site when it was active then its not going to penalize the new owner of an expired domain.

        I know a lot of people teach otherwise but its mostly an urban myth that's never had much proof behind it.
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        • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
          Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

          That's a consideration when the domain has been inactive for awhile and therefor no longer indexed by Google but if its still indexed then its of little consideration(except for the incoming links). If google hasn't penalized the site when it was active then its not going to penalize the new owner of an expired domain.

          I know a lot of people teach otherwise but its mostly an urban myth that's never had much proof behind it.
          Good point. I should have said that this is only a consideration for parked domains. I assumed it was parked because the OP did not say that he was buying a website, but simply called it an expired domain. I guess I've never bought a domain that was so recently expired that it was still indexed. I've bought plenty of active websites, though.
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      • Profile picture of the author Denis Dementienko
        Also, I wanna add, that after checking of the existence you can use free wayback machine downloader to recover all data you need. Have you used such services like that before in archiveorg?
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  • Profile picture of the author topcoder
    The link profile, but you need to check that profile and make sure the majority of those links are "DoFollow" links.
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  • Profile picture of the author jimbobo2779
    As far as stats are concerned I would only really look at Majestic TF and the backlinks. If the backlinks are spammy you can steer clear of the domain.

    Another good thing to check out is the content as archived on the Wayback Machine, if the content has chopped and changed every year or looks like a simple PBN or spam site you would probably want to stay away.

    Ultimately I would look for a clean domain and then consider the stats of it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
    link profile in the morning, afternoon and night as Mike stated. the only thing that matters besides that was the site penalized by google or Bing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
    Yeah....lol...I've picked up many a good domain because no one would touch it because it had Chinese content in the wayback machine. It usually IS the kiss of death because of the links but a lot of Chinese SEOs and spammers buy perfectly legit domains for a project and then abandon them afterwards - even without ever being penalized.

    Other quick tips for finding deals

    Use a historical whois lookup on domains you are really interested in but don't know if they are penalized. if the registrar DNS hasn't changed in several years then its more likely to be a good one (nothing is guaranteed)

    What some newbs don't take into account is that MANY domains go offline before their registration is up. They don't find it indexed in Google and think they are penalized but it might be out of the index only because the site was offline (wayback can help with that but isn't 100%)

    There are a few domain registrars that let you register and drop the domain in a few days . they charge you a fee for it but its less than the cost of registration. The most popular one had a set allowance of domains based on TLD they would take back each month. If that allowance was up you had to keep the domain. The safest way to work that is to order a couple suspect domains that you like at the beginning of the month. Put them up quick and see if you can index them kick them back to the registrar if they can't be [Note: haven't done this in awhile so things might have changed at the registrar]

    Finally there was a guy here several years ago that used to have a pretty good track record of getting domains that have been penalized reversed by Google. I found that was easier the older the domain was first penalized or last used (which again the wayback can give you a guess at but they are not 100%.
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  • Profile picture of the author SimonBirch1973
    check for spam if buying domains, but also check authority for sure
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