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Resurrecting Sites from the Internet Graveyard

Went Hot: December 30, 2007 - 7:55 pm
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 553 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoroi.com)
Category: Other Online Marketing

Expired domains are everywhere, but they're very tricky to make the most of. Here Gab explores how to use archived copies of the site to re-create it, and then how to use this original content to create a nice link supplement for whatever site you may be working on.
It's quick, it's simple, and it works.
Blackhat, whitehat, and grayhat perspectives are all examined.

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from iBrian 550 days ago #

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Don't forget that Google has historically made a point of resetting expired domains anyway. So the expired domain may have some links already pointing to it, but the sum of the link juice could be zero.

I remember John Scott having problems with this *years* ago, so people may wish to read up and then reconsider the strategy:
http://blog.v7n.com/2006/02/21/expired-domains/

from sza 550 days ago #

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"Google has historically made a point of resetting expired domains anyway"

iBrian, I don't think that's universally true.

I personally have seen several examples as recent as this year, where both PageRank and anchor text was fully inherited by the new site. So much so that sometimes it started to rank high for completely new queries within a week.

from phoenix 550 days ago #

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Give it time, I have seen both cases. Some domains I purchased with quite a few links ranked for about a 6 months to a year and then went completely black. Others are dead on arrival.

from SlightlyShadySEO 550 days ago #

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I've had the same experience as phoenix. Some are awesome, some create problems. Had one guy bitch at me because the OLD owner had the site in a link exchange, and I decided I didn't want to. Dumb hassles.

from Gab 550 days ago #

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@ Brian: Thanks for sharing that. Truth be told, given the minimal financial risk and time investment this tactic involves, it's not necessarily prohibitive to test the waters at least.

@ Brian, sza and phoenix, any chance we could chat on MSN messenger? I'd be curious to see some examples of their use in practice, and what you did with them. (I already speak to Shady ;) )

from cvos 548 days ago # - show/hide this comment

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This dovetails nicely with scooping up premium expired domain names that come preloaded with lots of quality backlinks http://www.netpaths.net/blog/domain-name-backorder-tools/

from Gab 548 days ago # - show/hide this comment

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At cvos: Your post talks about domain name backorder tools. Not scooping up premium names with lots of quality backlinks. That's called misrepresentation.