Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Expired Domain Traffic-Is It A Bane Or Boon?

Expired Domain Traffic-Is It A Bane Or Boon?
There are two or three different classes of expired domain
traders and they always look for different things when
buying their preferred expired domain names. What one works
for a domain trader may not really work for others! One
class of traders may choose and buy names for future web
site development, while the second class of traders make it
a point to buy an expired domain name with a specific
future customer in mind. However, there is a third group of
traders, who consistently buy expired domains with plenty
of expired domain traffic or expired traffic. These traders
value expired traffic immensely and for them, an expired
domain with plenty of expired traffic is a god-sent
opportunity and a great money making option.

Traders buy expired domains just for their expired traffic
and they park their domains at highly lucrative places that
provide them an opportunity to earn some form of income.
These domains parked on web portals like Sedo ensures an
ongoing income just enough to sustain the cost of
maintaining the expired domain. Domains that come with
considerable amount of expired traffic are always premium
and costly given their immense commercial value and
importance.

Now, the most important and critical question is how can
one find an expired domain with plenty of expired traffic?
Right now, there are just a few methods that will help you
to find the amount of traffic. But, you can be assured of
its traffic, once you find an expired domain and track the
traffic statistics over that domain. Most of the traffic
associated with a given expired domain could be useless and
commercially unviable. Some amount of traffic can come from
either links or type-ins. For example,
absolutelyenhanted.com is not that sort of domain that a
person will automatically type on the browser window.
However, this type of domains could have a substantial
amount of traffic associated with it. You can use a
convenient tool that will allow you to find out how many
links a well known web portal like Alexa.com shows, to see
if the domain still has a traffic ranking, or you can
alternatively use PageRank.net to see, if the domain has a
Google PageRank or not.

However, you should be extremely cautious, while buying an
expired domain exclusively for expired domain traffic. In
many cases, people like you may be just trying to see, if
the domain you are trying to buy has an established expired
traffic. This type of traffic is not the real traffic and
search engine may never recognize this traffic. Again, if
the expired domain that you buy has a number of traffic it
does not mean that the traffic is real. May be the links
point to dead sites or to a place where no one ever visits.

Thus, to identify whether an expired domain has a
verifiable source of traffic or not is actually quite
difficult. You will also need to try and use a number of
tools and utilities to verify the expired domain and its
expired traffic.


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John Khu is an author and also a seasoned professional with
vast experience in expired domain name business. He is the
owner of the path breaking web site called
http://www.expireddomainsecret.com which provides complete
and up-to-date information on expired domains and their
eternal secrets.

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