"Discover The Easiest And Least Expensive Way To Generate A Flood Of
High Quality Traffic To Your Web Site."
Plus, how a single
domain name produced $182.62 in easy, zero-effort income in
only 30 days and continues to produce even more income every day and How
Anyone can find and acquire domains for profit.
Every day, millions of hits are lost because website
owners carelessly forget to renew their domains. Either they lose
interest, don't have the time, money or effort to manage their sites,
or they simply forget their domain will expire. Although a lot of
these expired domains were never developed, a fair number were once active and
thriving websites and that spells BIG opportunity for you.
It is all about Traffic
If you want to succeed on the internet you need to be able to
generate traffic. It doesn't matter whether you're trying to sell a
product, generate leads, or produce revenue using Google Adsense....
If you cannot get people to your site then you don't stand a chance.
One of the biggest challenges to a webmaster is how to generate
traffic. More traffic to your website equates to more sales. So how
does one generate extra traffic to their website? Search engine
optimization, email campaigns, pay-per-clicks, banner advertising, are
among some of the tactics that are popular. But, the easiest and most
overlooked method of generating traffic is through expired domain
names.
Imagine a webmaster working for months or (even years) to build
up traffic to his website. He gets link partners, he posts messages in
related forums, over time he builds up a lot of quality links which
produce a lot of quality traffic. Then, one day, for whatever reason,
the webmaster lets the domain expire. Where does all that traffic go?
The answer is nowhere. What a waste!
The good news is these domains (and more importantly the
traffic stream they produce) can easily be acquired by forward
thinking Internet Entrepreneurs for as little as registration costs.
Why domains with traffic Expire
Why would an owner of a domain ever let a valuable domain
expire? The previous owner may have run out of money to promote the
site. They may have lacked the time and motivation to manage the site.
They may have gotten tied up in other activities or another job. They
simply forgot to renew their domain. They may have regrettably
succumbed to illness or even death. They failed to receive the notice
from their registrar informing them that their domain was about to
expire. Also, in many instances the owners of a domain have no idea
how valuable the domain really is. So, not understanding the value
they choose not to pay the domain renewal fee.
Not too many years ago, expired domain names were available
immediately, and some speculators waited like hawks for great, high
traffic domain names. They'd swoop in and grab the domain seconds
after it expired, then if the previous owner came along and asked for
it back, the speculator would require a hefty fee for it. This was
considered extremely unethical, and many domain name owners would
claim their site was "stolen" by the speculator.
When a domain name expires these days, it's not immediately
available for other people to buy. Instead, it goes into a holding
pattern of sorts. This holding period will vary from one registrar to
another, but it generally lasts for about 3 months. The purpose of
this "holding" period is to give the previous owner additional chances
to renew the domain.
The Top Two Methods To Profit From Expired Domains
- Redirecting traffic to other sites you own - If a domain
name has traffic already, you could simply redirect it to one of the
sites you already own. Buying domains relevant to the topic and
keywords of your website is a quick, easy, cheap way to increase
traffic on your existing websites.
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Case Study: Redirect to existing web site
FreeForeClosureDatabase.com provides Nationwide Foreclosure
Listings for free. This site produces revenue from advertising on
the site. Like most sites, FreeForeclosureDatabse.com is always
looking for new sources of quality traffic. Expired domain traffic
has proved to be a valuable source of new highly targeted visitors.
Two of the Expired domains acquired and directed to
FreeForeclosureDatabase.com were:
ReviewForeclosures.com: Averages 8 visitors a day.
auctionpropertylists.com Averages 3 visitors a day.
3 or 8 visitors a day doesn't sound like much, but if you
research what it would cost if you were to buy those clicks through
Google Adwords. You would find that a single click for the Keyword
"Foreclosure listings" is $1.66 (on 8/5/2006). Comparing traffic in
this way, it's clear that the estimated annual traffic from
ReviewForeclosures.com is worth an
astounding $4,847.20 and AuctionPropertylists.com is worth
$1,871.70!
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- Parking Services -Even if you don't have an existing website
you can make big profits by using "Parking Services" These services
allow you to profit from domains even if you don't have a website.
The parking services host your site (for free) and display ads on
your site. When a visitor clicks on an ad, you get paid. There are a
lot of different parking services out there and they all make it very
easy to get set up and running. How much could you earn from parking?
That depends on the domain and the amount of traffic it generates but
here's a quick case study:
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Case Study: Domain parking
BlindPay.com is parked with a parking service called
Klickerz.com. As you can see, the site is not extravagant at all
and, in fact, seems a big ugly. But, it produces excellent revenue!
BlindPay.com expired and was acquired on Jun 19, 2006 for
$60
The domain has been parked since July 4th, 2006
Within the first 30days of parking the domain had produced
$182.62 in income. That's a 300% return in
just the FIRST 30 days! More importantly, most parking services automatically
optimize the parked page to produce the maximum amount of earnings
by showing the most relevant ads to the site visitors. This
optimization can make a huge difference. For example, the first day
of parking July 4, 2006 $1.32 was generated, but a month later on
August 4th the earnings were $8.51!
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Other ways to profit from Expired Domains:
- Development into full/large site (For use or
sale) - Create a full fledged site. This can be 10 pages, 100 pages
or tens of thousands of pages. Using an expired domain for a new site
can get your site immediate traffic from the existing links and the
fact that the domain may already be indexed in the search engines
making it much easier for you to optimize your site for search engine
traffic.
- Redirecting traffic to affiliate sites -
Along similar lines, you can simply redirect the expired domain to
one of your affiliate products or programs.
- Reselling - As you've seen good domain names
can be worth a lot of money. If you want to make some quick cash you
could resell the domain name to someone else in the domain
aftermarket. There are many sites devoted to the buying and selling
of domains and there's a real opportunity to make a quick profit.
- Holding - You can simply hold the domain for
as long as you want to, letting the prices, demand, and value
continue rising. Domain names (especially .com domains) are becoming
a limited resource. Many people have found that acquiring good
expiring domains and holding onto them for a period of time is an
excellent strategy for capturing huge profits. Domains are like
virtual real estate. As the supply of real estate goes down, the
value of the real estate goes up. Dot com domains are excellent
examples of domains that increase in value over time. In 1996 it was
fairly easy to find great .com domains. In 2006 however, it's almost
impossible to find good ones available. And the shorter the domain
name is, the harder it is to find one available. So by simply buying
domains with great potential - particularly ones that might be even
more rare 5 or 10 years down the road - investors simply hold them to
let the value continue increasing.
What Makes Expired Domains Valuable:
Even if a domain "sounds" really great, it doesn't make it a
good domain name from an investment stand point. Domain names, in and
of themselves, are not valuable. What is valuable is the traffic that
those domains produce. Domains, in and of themselves, are like raw
undeveloped. But, with some time and energy domains can become quite
valuable. By acquiring expired domains you have the opportunity take
advantage of the energy, time and money other people put into a
domain, but then let it expire. The one significant exception to this
is "Type in" potential which we'll discuss in a moment. For now, Here
are the main factors you should look for when buying expired domain
names:
- Existing Links - Any domain name that
was previously developed and used is likely to have been promoted at
some point in the past. Because of this, there are likely to be links
to that domain from other websites around the web. And in some cases,
old domains have thousands of links from other sites. These existing
links can be an immediate source of traffic to a domain.
- Existing Pagerank - Many webmasters
are concerned with the Google PageRank system, and they desperately
want to find ways to increase their own website pagerank.
Alternatively, they'd give almost anything to get a link to their
site from a site that has a good pagerank. Sometimes, because of the
links mentioned above, expired domains will retain pagerank after
they've expired. This is appealing to many domain name speculators
because they can develop the site quickly and possibly retain that
pagerank, or they can redirect the domain to their own site and
potentially transfer the pagerank.
It's important to note that most expired domains automatically and
immediately lose their pagerank. It's rare to find a domain that
retains it's Google pagerank. It's not impossible, but it is
rare. Also note that pagerank is that little green bar that goes from
0-10 on the Google toolbar. Pagerank is NOT the same as where the
site shows up in the search engine results when someone searches the
topic.
- Branding Potential - Some people buy
expired domain names for branding. Either the domain name matches
their business name, product line, or specific product name or the
domain is something catchy they'd like to incorporate into a new or
existing business.
Often this method is used by people who can't find acceptable or
appropriate domain names readily available. Someone may want to start
an internet store about cell phone accessories for instance, yet not
be able to find what they consider to be a "good" domain name. So
instead they'll buy an expired one they like, and use that for their
new website.
- Scarcity - Buying expired domains
because the domain is scarce. Generic words and very short domain
names are examples of the types of domains that tend to be fairly
hard to find these days. Domains that end in ".com" are significantly
more scarce than others.
- Type in (Direct Navigation) - Type-in
Traffic is when someone goes to the internet looking for a particular
product or service. But instead of going to a search engine like
Google, they simply type a URL directly into the web browser. For
example, If you're car shopping, you could go to Google and do a
search for "cars". But, many people will simply enter cars.com into
their browser and be directed to the cars.com website directly.
One might think this is not a good example because cars.com is a
developed website which has done a fair amount of advertising. One
might think that's why users type "cars.com" into their browser. In
fact, cars.com bought the domain cars.com precisely because every day
people would blindly type "cars.com" into their web browsers.
Another example of a domain with type in traffic is godfather.com.
Every day more than 500 people blindly type godfather.com into their
web browsers. Why? They're looking for something and they think
they'll find it at godfather.com. The actual web page hosted at
godfather.com is irrelevant. Every day at least 500 people come to
that website through type-in traffic.
How To Find Valuable Expired Domains
The #1 reason that everybody doesn't take advantage of expired
domains is because it's incredibly challenging to sort through the
domains that expire each day to find the ones that have value. More
than 20,000 ".com" domains expire every single day, not to mention all
the ".net's", ".info's", ".org's", etc. Of these tens of thousands of
domain names, only a very small percentage of them were previously
developed sites with link popularity or have type-in traffic
potential.
Here's how to find the valuable domains:
- Get a list of the domains which expire each day.
There are a number of providers that distribute these lists. Some for
free, while others charge.
- Determine Link popularity for each domain.
- Determine Overture rating. This is a critical number
when trying to determine if a domain has type-in potential. If the
domain has an Overture "w/TLW" ranking then that means that
someone went to a search engine and actually typed in
"domainname.com" into the search box. If people are typing the domain
name into a search engine, it's likely that they're also typing it
directly into their browser.
- Determine Google PageRank
- Determine Alexa Ranking. Alexa is like the Nielsen
ratings of the internet. Essentially, it is a ranking of all websites
online. If a domain has a good Alexa ranking, then it's probably
receiving a good amount of traffic.
- Determine DMOZ Listing Status: DMOZ.org is a
directory listing of many of the internet's web sites. But, it's not
easy to get listed in the DMOZ directory. So, if a site is listed
that's a great indication that it has been previously developed.
Over the last few years many software products and services
have come on the market to help people sort through the domains. Some
of the services are free while others require payment. All of these
services are seriously flawed in one way or another... for example:
"Actionable Intelligence" for Domain Investment:
Finally, there is a one stop shop for easily sorting
through the lists of expiring domain names to find ones of value.
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- Overture w/TLD
- Alexa Rank
- DMOZ Listing Status
- Google LP
- Google PR
- Yahoo LP
- AllTheWeb LP
- Altavista LP
- Alexa LP
It's not easy, but by maintaining a massive server farm,
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Real Life Example: Domain name NFLlinks.com is set to
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greatsportsrivalries.com
nflgoddess.com
worldfigureskatingchampionships.com
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