I’ve been buying expired domains with back links for quite a while, a little over a year if my memory serves me right. In that time my approach has been to buy the domain and then 301 redirect it to one of my existing domains. The results have been OK if not spectacular. Sure those links can give an improvement in search rankings but it’s not the magic bullet I was hoping it may be. There had to be a better way of profiting from these expired domains, well last week I discovered it.
I say I discovered it, the truth is that I read about it in some top secret members only area. The idea was simple, somebody was buying up expired domains with links and then instead of forwarding them he was simply using the way back machine (or internet archive) to recreate some of what was on the website originally. Failing this any relevant content to the domain would do. The thing was once Google spidered those links with the content in place the page rank came piling back. Those domains could then be flipped – easy money.
So last week I thought I’d give it a shot. Pick a niche any niche – I decided on tattoos. I managed to find an expired tattoo related domain that had 47 backlinks and bought it. Unfortunately for me the old content was rubbish so I ended up sticking up WordPress and populated it with some free tattoo articles. Within 3 days I had a Page Rank 2 blog! I’ve just sold the domain name for $50. That domain cost me $8 to buy.
$42 doesn’t sound like a lot of profit but considering the amount of effort and risk involved I’m happy with that return. I’m happier still knowing that it’s something I can do over and over whenever I’m in the mood. In fact I have another waiting for the PR to be delivered right now. The other thing to think about is the niche you go into. There are plenty of websites on the internet that really struggle with getting backlinks (gambling, porn) and if you can find a couple of good even remotely related domains for these you could be on to some serious pay dirt.
If you’re wondering how I sold my domain then I didn’t bother with Sedo. I’ve given up using brokerages for this, all I did was e-mail some Tattoo website webmasters seeing if they’d like to buy it. Was very easy.
10 Responses to “Quickest Page Rank Ever! (And How You Can Make Money From It)”
Deneil Merritt
July 30, 2009
You always have the easiest ways to make quick cash. Keep up the good work. I may have find a few things that bring in quick cash for a few projects I want to do.
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Jacques Snyman | Web Design
August 1, 2009
Heheheheh! Sneaky, but solid concept. I like the way you think! If you sit on the domains a bit longer, and indulge in a bit of design tweaking and on page optimization, along with a little link building, you can show even greater returns.
|R Kumar
August 9, 2009
This seems to be a nice way of generating some extra income. As you mentioned $42 seems too little but looking at the efforts and the number of such $42 that can be generated from this strategy, there is huge potential in this.
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Harvey
August 9, 2009
$42 for one domain doesn’t sound a lot but if you can multiply that for 10 for example then that’s $420! Some good money to be made here.
|Kurt Avish
August 11, 2009
That was a good move man. $42 is not much but considering you invested $8, you made of 5 times profit. Good job.
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