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Buying High PR Expiring Domain Names

by Watch Store
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There has been a lot of talk about buying high pr expiring domain names and then converting them into a niche. But i have found when searching it is hard to find the keyword of specific niches.

Is there any point in buying the domain name and then re-directing to a new domain specific name or do you lose the link juice ?
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
    Originally Posted by Watch Store View Post

    There has been a lot of talk about buying high pr expiring domain names and then converting them into a niche. But i have found when searching it is hard to find the keyword of specific niches.

    Is there any point in buying the domain name and then re-directing to a new domain specific name or do you lose the link juice ?
    If you can take away anything from the EMD update its that Google doesn't care a rip about domain name being relevant what they want is the content on the page to be relevant. Yes you may want to buy an aged domain that isn't contrary to your niche like Airportsecurity.com linking to your site on ladies handbags but most of the domains with Pr on the market are not so focused and alot of their PR juice is conveyed by their URL as well not always a keyword.
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  • Profile picture of the author Watch Store
    thanks mike yes but my question was more if your keyword niche was ladies hand bags and you found the domain name airportsecurity.com

    and you wanted to make the airportsecurity domain name into your money site. How would you do that ?

    would you keep the domain airportsecurity and make the whole website about ladies handbags that sounds a bit weird.

    Or re-direct the url to a new url about ladies handbags ?

    or only buy a keyword relevant domain which would be very hard to find ?
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    • Profile picture of the author jimkirk1943
      Originally Posted by Watch Store View Post

      thanks mike yes but my question was more if your keyword niche was ladies hand bags and you found the domain name airportsecurity.com

      and you wanted to make the airportsecurity domain name into your money site. How would you do that ?

      would you keep the domain airportsecurity and make the whole website about ladies handbags that sounds a bit weird.

      Or re-direct the url to a new url about ladies handbags ?

      or only buy a keyword relevant domain which would be very hard to find ?
      Mate dont worry about it very few domains are keyword domains most are stuff like `Rip3dot.com, ecccsl.org, TGRE.net just go check it out theres no need to worry about airports and bags
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      Originally Posted by Watch Store View Post

      thanks mike yes but my question was more if your keyword niche was ladies hand bags and you found the domain name airportsecurity.com

      and you wanted to make the airportsecurity domain name into your money site. How would you do that ?
      Others will disagree but I don't see as much value in getting an aged domain to make into a money site unless that aged domain has anchor text links for what you are targeting. Business and SEO is not a short term project. The age factor isn't half what people claim it to be. In a few months even a new domain can rank.

      Aged domains should be bought with some links and PR to make into a link resource. Yes there is the whole 301 redirect craze where the answer to everything is do a redirect but though you pass on PR you aren't passing on any anchor text specific to your kewyrods because in such cases the site you are redirecting didn't have your anchor text links. I guess it can give you some diversity.

      So in your case I would suggest that you take that time to hunt. IF this site is going to be your business then it may be worth the search time to find an aged domain that actually matches and will have some relation both in name and in existing links that will help long term. Register compass makes this pretty easy to do but you might have to wait awhile until there is such a domain available. Sometimes you can even find a domain that already has good decent positioning in the serps.
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  • Profile picture of the author Watch Store
    mike

    any thoughts ?
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  • Profile picture of the author Watch Store
    i agree so you would try and build an authority site eg. about handbags using urls like rip3dot.com, eccsl.org, tgre.net

    it just sounds funny ?
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  • Profile picture of the author Terry Kyle
    Hi WS,

    You have 2 options:

    [1] Assuming you can't find a PR5 domain called cheapladieshandbags.com (catchy I know), search for a generic-ish domain - as Jim suggested - that you can BRAND as your own (eventually). If you do a Google search on 'ladies handbags', you'll see brands/domains like TK Maxx, boticca, snapdeal and bananarepublic - brands, not product related domains.

    [2] If you can't find a PR domain that you can live with, buy the 'airport security' one and 301 it to a new domain that you like and build your handbag site there.

    In time, the PR will pass to the new domain but building on the PR domain and SEOing that site will rank much faster than the new domain with the 301 to it, in my experience.
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  • Profile picture of the author ProfessionalMarketer
    I feel that you should concentrate on developing the website without considering the domain name!! It will be better as per the new Google update!!
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    • Profile picture of the author highprweb
      Agree even in google trends now people search more then buy a domains than buy a websites
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