Did you know there are hundreds, if not thousands of savvy internet marketers currently buying up expired domain names and making a small fortune out of them? How do they make money? Read on to find out.
Buying expired domain names is a great way to get free traffic quickly. Essentially it works when over time a domain has been established and built up by someone who for whatever reason then allows their domain registration to expire. Effectively they allow all of the time, money and know-how that they have put into the site to be wasted. Well, maybe its not always wasted, because one man’s misfortune can become another’s gain!
If the expired domain pulls in a decent amount of traffic but is allowed to expire, it can be a great buy for the first person who recognizes it’s traffic pulling potential. The buyer basically obtains a free, very targeted source of traffic.
So how do you know the potential of an expired domain? Well, let’s start with link popularity. When you begin searching for an expired domain you need to look at how many inbound links are pointing in to the domain, otherwise known as link popularity. A lot of links will be an indicator that the domain should have a steady stream of traffic coming in.
A lot of backlinks will be an indication of traffic for two reasons. Firstly the links themselves will bring in some direct traffic, and secondly, the links will provide the domain with some ranking juice in the search engines, meaning it may get some indirect free traffic from the search engines.
When you find an expired domain that has a high number of backlinks, you have found yourself a potential stream of free targeted visitors to profit from.
Expired domains can provide a cheap, overnight alternative to the normal route of setting up a web site from scratch. The beauty being that you have traffic to profit from immediately. Buying an expired domain can save you a lot of time. If you don’t want to develop the site, you could just add a snipped of code to the domain that redirects the traffic to one of your existing sites in the same niche!
Just think about the potential. You can buy expired domains for as little as $10. Even if it provides just 10 visitors per day, which isn’t many, you’re still going to get over three and a half thousand visitors a year for your ten bucks, even if all you do is slap up a page of adsense ads you’ll see a nice return on your investment. Alternatively, you could monetise the site with CPA or affiliate offers, and add further backlinks and then sell the site for a profit. The options for profiting from expired domains are endless!
