Hi all, I am planning to buy some expired domains. I would like to know is expired domain good for seo point of view ? Will it give me good rakning? what about traffic I will get from it? Please guide. slimbachiya, www.phpwebs.com www.phpwebs.org
It depends on what you going to use it for ? And the history of the expired domains ... Alot of factors to consider.
There are too many factors! A domain that was originally registered five years ago would be given more ranking value than a domain originally registered for the first time this year, if ALL OTHER SEO factors were the same. If that expired domain was banned from Yahoo or Google, good luck getting it un-banned, even if you have a legitimate site with legitimate content. (Google is more responsive than Yahoo, but why mess with the insanity to begin with?) I have registered plenty of domains for clients that are brand new domains and with proper SEO techniques, have them on the first page of Google in short order. It takes a LOT of work to get that kind of result, regardless of whether a domain is new or old. And there are so many other factors that if done properly, the age of the domain is not relevant.
One risk factor is if the expired domain had previously been banned at Google or Yahoo. How long had it been expired? If it was recently expired, go to google and then Yahoo - and at each do a search on site:thatdomain.com and see if any pages are listed at either. If they are, then the site had not been banned. If there are not, it may not have been banned but there's no way to tell.
Above statements are very gud and u shud remember these when you purchase expired domain................. Here are few tools those might help you to know the domain history........... First is wayback machine. It wud show what happened on a domain in past. Means which type of sites are hosted on this domain......... Way Back Machine Second is Domain look up tool. It wud tell you when domain registered first time & when it got expired................... Domain Look Up Tool Third one is Google Ban Checker it wud tell you a domain is banned by Google or Not................... Google Ban checker About this tool i am not sure that it gives right idea or not, but you cud try it.......................... So just use them & make your doubts clear..............................