How To Use Expired Domains For Instant Traffic and Page Rank

What is an expired domain and how can it help you in your internet marketing endeavors?

Quite simply, an expired domain is a domain name that has come to the end of the time it's been registered for and hasn't been renewed.

There could be a number of different reasons for this - it's possible the domain's owner simply forgot to renew, possibly their domain registrar didn't remind them (or used an out of date email address to tell them), possibly the domain owner bought the domain intending to do something with it and then changed focus. There are lots of different reasons that a domain has been allowed to expire.

So how can you make money from expired domains?

For a start, it's generally considered that the older a domain name is, the more "important" it is. By definition, a domain name that has expired has been around for a minimum of a year, so it's older than buying a new domain.

Secondly, if the domain has actually been used, there are likely to be links pointing to the website. There's also a very good chance that the search engines will know about it and will have indexed it.

The icing on the cake is if it actually has a Google Page Rank.

Yes, you read that right. There are a lot of expired domain names that have a Google Page Rank and even attract traffic.

The bad news is, you're not the only person looking for expired domains. The best expired domains are snapped up within minutes or even seconds of becoming available.

So if you're thinking of buying expired domains either for your own use or to quickly "flip" and resell to other people, you'll need to be quick off the mark.

The simplest way to do this is to use a service that will allow you to search for domains that are soon to expire. This gives you a head start and will allow you to snap up the domain names you're interested in as soon as they expire and are allowed to be purchased again.

You can find one of the best services for tracking down expired domains here.