Expired Domain Fun

fun times with preloved domain names

[Bennie]

I have never played around with expired domains so I thought I'd share some of the fun I've been having..

Reregistered an expired domain approx 2 weeks ago, put a new site on it, a redeveloped - slightly optimised version of what was in the archive. Linked it up to an ontopic site I own. The first spidering it went straight back into G, Y and MSN, and is now ranking quite nicely esp. on mSN, but also ranking OK on Goog.

I was suprised. I have been under the impression it is difficult to get .com domains back into G straight up. I have friends that have entire networks of expired domains and they sometimes struggle to get domains back into G but are fine with MSN and Y till G come around.

Have I simply been lucky, or does G appreciate a well developed domain with 'signs of quality' (whatever that may be hehe)? Can anyone do this with regularity?

I have repeated my experiement with another domain of the same topic and linked it up this morning.

I will report back how it goes. Who knows prehaps I've learnt something : P

-Bennie

[nativenewyorker]

Without mentioning specifics about your website, how competitive is the main keyword or keyword phrase that you are targeting? How many results do Google / Yahoo / MSN return?

[gamb]

also - I've seen sites get into g in the first few weeks, then the sandbox kicks in.

[Bennie]

managed to do it again. don't worry about the compeditivness of the serps, they are small to some big to others ; ) (it's all relative you know). This second domain doesn't look to be as strong as the first, and to be honest I never really expected anything special from either of these.