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How
To Benefit from Expired Domain for your Business
If
you are like most online entrepreneurs, you've been
struggling to grab your share of that flood of traffic
that you hear about from every guru wannabe out there.
Chances
are you have probably invested heavily in search engines,
banner ads, classified ads or even spent a mint on so-called
"safe lists" only to find yourself disappointed
again and again.
There
is a perfectly legal, extremely effective, traffic generation
technique that, until now, has gone relatively unnoticed
by the masses.
What
if you could recover existing web traffic that is currently
being overlooked and basically being flushed down the
drain?
What
if you could grab one of those prized listings in Yahoo
that cost $200 with no guarantee you'll even be included
in the directory?
What
if you could get that traffic for a fraction of what
other advertising methods charge?
Expired
domains might be an option to consider. Every day over
3 million hits of targeted traffic are lost due to abandoned
web sites. Why does this happen?
Webmasters
may lose interest or they don't have the money or time
to manage the site. Sometimes they just forget to renew.
A large portion of these expired domain clicks come
from sites that were never developed. BUT, some were
once solid sites generating traffic and sales.
Expired
domains is all about capturing all the effort, time
and money that the previous owner developed and putting
it to good use for yourself.
What
if a domain name had link popularity, had a coveted
dotcom (.com) extension, or was even listed in Yahoo
or had Google Page Ranking?
What
is Link Popularity? Simply put, Link Popularity is the
number of other websites
that link to your site. Doesn't it stand to reason that
if a domain name previously had Link Popularity or was
one of those coveted dotcoms or was even listed in Yahoo,
that it might have once been a thriving website?
Not
only that, but with a little time and effort, you might
even be able to pick up some popular domain names just
for speculation or to resell on eBay! Many of the domain
names that expire every day could be resold even without
Link Popularity or any of the other "carrots"
because they just happen to be highly regarded as a
tangible asset. Short, descriptive domain names that
end in a ".com" or ".net" are examples
of this.
The
best part is that you can get these names for the price
of registering them, often for less than $10!
Even
if you didn't use the domain name to redirect traffic
to your own web site, if you find a couple and sell
them at auction for $25, $50 or more, that's a pretty
decent return on a very small investment.
A
certain amount of caution needs to be taken when using
this tool for any purpose. Make certain you do a bit
of homework to make sure the previous web site was not
an adult site. Sometimes the domain name may not necessarily
reflect the former content. There is a tool that can
be used to determine the history of the site. Best of
all, it's free! Here is the link:
http://web.archive.org
If
you are looking for alternative ways to generate traffic
to your site, expired domains might be a good investment.
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