5 Tips To Expired Domain Traffic

By Dave Long

Want traffic even before you building you website? Expired Domains are a great way to get traffic. A lot of people have domains that for one reason or another they let expire and this is your opportunity to cash in. Some of these expired domains are indexed on the net. Some have good and easy to remember names. Others have been indexed in the search engine and already get traffic. I started a domain back in 2000, worked on the website for a year, got it indexed and all that great stuff. For personal reasons I had to shut the domain down in 2002 and guess what happened? Someone bought my old domain and directed all the traffic to their site. So they took all my traffic and all the work I did and pointed it to their own website.

There is a lot of opportunity in expired domains. Some tips to look for when you buying an expired domain.

1. Make sure the domain has traffic. You can use a number of keyword tools to figure this out. If it gets no traffic there is not a lot of sense in you buying the domain, so check that first.

2. Does it have any listing's anywhere, check different search engines and directories for inclusion as these are real gems when you find them.

3. Your domain is your primary keyword, which is obtained by abbreviating your business into a single word or phrase. I like 2 words or long tail keywords the best.

4. Make sure your domain always has that keyword and a few other letters, when possible. You should use ONLY your primary keyword, plus a few other letters; no hyphens and no numbers.

5. If you want to rank high in MSN, register the version '.org' of your main website domain name. Because MSN prefers '.org' domain names.

So there's 5 reasons on why grabbing an expired domain name is good for getting free targeted traffic.

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