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Friday, 29 June 2007

How To Boost Your Traffic With Expired Domain Names

Until now you might have thought that expired domain names are excellent just for branding.
But do you know that by registering the right expired domain names you can significantly boost your website's exposure and traffic?
There is no doubt that Yahoo! is the world's biggest portal. It's no secret that many websites are making tons of money just from the fact that they're on Yahoo!. It's also nothing new that it's getting more and more difficult to get listed there.Now, listen to this. There are tens of thousands of websites listed on Yahoo!. That's tens of thousands of unique domain names, some of which *expire*. Catching my drift?
You own XYZ Web Hosting Corporation (xyzhosting.com) and you want to boost your website's traffic. John Qwerty once had a web hosting business too, with a domain nameqwertyhosting.com. He even got listed on Yahoo.com and received some solid traffic from them over the years. Unfortunately his business flopped and he didn't renew his domain name, so it naturally expired. Despite the fact qwertyhosting.com is available for re-registration, QWERTY Hosting is still in Yahoo! Index .By registering qwertyhosting.com and pointing it to your xyzhosting.com, you'll get a steady flow of qualified visitors from Yahoo!
It's not just Yahoo.com that you can get residual traffic from. Some of the domain names that have now expired once were thriving online businesses linked from tens (may be hundreds) other websites. Chances are that many of those links are still active, pointing to the now dead, expired domains. Now, if you can only register such a domain name, you can capture a stream of traffic that would otherwise go into a black hole.
To find such names, you need two things:
a) a list of expired domain names
.b) a link popularity checker to see whether a particular expired domain name has any links pointed to it.
Some people are getting hundreds of visitors every day thanks to these little-known tricks!

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