We have a good time here in my estimation. I enjoy the discussions and like to think ya’ll are getting something from my straight forward opinions (which are based on my own experiences). So here’s one more: if you are going to be an internet marketing and make money online dude/chick, buy pre-owned, aged, authority domains!
I would say that this is the most important and most informative post ever on this site. No shiz! 
What Is A Pre-Owned Domain?
A pre-owned domain is one that has been live on the net prior to you owning it. (simple definition) Since I always try to illustrate these concepts using real world examples, here ya go:
So in the vid, I talk about two neighborhoods, let me break them down and you draw the conclusions related to buying web properties.
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Park Ridge Real Estate
Park Ridge, IL: This is a well established and older town/neighborhood and is known as a “nice place to live.” Some would even call it “wealthy.” In Park Ridge, there is no “Riff/Raff” going on. Hillary Clinton is from there (she is a very trusted LINK to the town)
Park Ridge is very close to downtown Chicago also, a great location … in fact, you can’t get new land this close to downtown anymore … it’s all used up. Park Ridge also has a reputation for being safe and trusted… good schools, good police and fire protection, clean streets, mature trees, nice people, etc etc. You just cannot find this type of value this close to downtown anymore.
In Park Ridge, there are many many older homes. They are nice, but they are just not modern … sometimes people in Park Ridge die… leaving their old homes up for sale. So new people buy the old home and land, rip down the home and build a brand new state-of-the-art house there. (this REALLY happens in Park Ridge… a lot!!!) They get instand value because the house is great, but it is located in a WELL ESTABLISHED and TRUSTED/AUTHORITY neighborhood. The value is built in already!
What Park Ridge Can Teach Internet Marketers
When you buy old land (pre-owned domain) in Park Ridge and put a new house (your new website) on that land, you automatically have value (site authority) built in and that cannot be found anywhere else! But keep in mind, the Park Ridge Housing Inspector (Google) won’t allow you to build a crappy house there either!!!!
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Green Garden Township, IL Real Estate
Green Garden Twnshp is a newly developing area. There are nice houses there because they are being built that way, but there are many unknowns. Will the area flood or be in a tornado alley? Will neighboring towns fight over annexation? What will the taxes be there? Does anyone of note live there? (good LINK).
What We Can Learn From Green Garden
Because it is new, it is not trusted yet by Real Estate appraisers/investors (by Google). You can build a nice house there, but the value will pretty much stay flat for a while. There is no telling what will happen there, it will take quite a while to gain long term value. It’s just the way new neighborhoods go.
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Buying Pre-Owned Domains
Buying the right pre-owned domain is important.. I stress “the right” domain !!!! When we talk this way, we mean buying domain names that have been housed on the net somewhere consistently for the past few years. There are some important considerations here, so let me break this down. When you get ready to start up a new site, buy a pre-owned domain that:
1) is a few years old or more. I prefer 3+ years minimum, but 10+ years is GOLDEN. Keep in mind, the internet as we know it is essentially 15 years old, and the longer a URL has been alive online, the more trust given it by Google’s algorithm. After all, if a site has been live that long, it must not be a “thin spammer site” right? Logic in the algorithm: imagine that!! 
BTW– let me say here… even with a 15-year-old golden domain, don’t YOU DARE build some crappy thin site! Don’t be a dumb-sh*t!!!
2) it must have had a live site on it consistently over the years with very few “under construction” or “park page” gaps. It is also important that the domain most recently had NO gaps and is still indexed in Google. This is important because a site that has been alive is also a site that is regularly crawled and indexed properly. If the spider is accustomed to going there that bodes well for you and your new venture. It also makes sense that a live and old domain will have been gaining links over time so when you send it new links, it’s “all good in the hood” ya know?
3) has not been used for gambling or p*rn or pills or other seedy garbage. A bad reputation is often impossible to overcome, both in life and on the net … ’nuff said. Only a dumb-ass would build a $500K house in Gary,IN.
4) has links already pointing at it. This is super important for several reasons, mostly because building links is tough work and if you get a domain that’s already got 1,000 or 10,000 links pointing at it, you just saved yourself some hours didn’t ya? In addition, these links are very “natural” and so any of your Darren Rowse link building tactics will be blended in! Keep in mind, that if you are a true internet marketer, you will be building links with proper anchor text anyway, and these will be blended in or “hidden” amongst all the natural ones that the previous person gained from his/her compelling content. Cool right?
5) has traffic already going there. Now this one is debatable. Personally, I rarely buy a domain because of the traffic unless I plan to re-purpose the domain in the same niche the previous owner did. Again, this is rare for me, but there are folks who like buying domains with traffic already flowing.
Many of you will wonder if it is worth it to buy pre-owned domains with PageRank already on them. This is a HUGE debate to be honest, but I will break it down simply right now.
PageRank On Your Money Site Is Not Important (for the most part)
If you are buying a pre-owned domain to use as a money site, then forget about PageRank and focus on age first, then links second, and PR last. If you can get an 8-year-old domain with a good keyword and it is PR0, that is a good purchase and prolly will cost you less than $15. You have a winner!
long story short, a pre-owned domain will gain traffic very quickly once you start adding good content. THAT is what we care about… the good content !!!
I buy all my pre-owned domains from Freshdrop. (NOT an affiliate link) Don’t join unless you are a serious internet marketer who knows what you are doing. I mean that. Otherwise, you will end up buying junk and not realizing it.
comments and questions are always encouraged ya’ll…
Your mom is an aged, pre-owned domain
Not an authority though…
Promises, promises. When are you going to tell us how to get a PageRank 5 site like B5 media?
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rofl, who cares about getting a PR5 ?? now, if you wanna know how to GET a link from a PR5… that would be a $97 ebook,
Bwahahahaha! I love your videos anyway, but the whole mouthing the words on the big screen while you were actually talking on the little screen cracked me up.
Question though- how do you find out if a domain has ever been used for bad neighborhood posts or links? Are you basing this on checking out what G has them indexed for (like post titles) and where the backlinks are coming from (based on URLs) or is there another method?
And, is there an easy way to sift through these domains? When searching GoDaddy’s “nearly expired” domains, I kept coming across domains that had already expired. I thought this was a no-no?
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You use Way Back Machine to check and see how the domain was used. They typically have a few months from every year archived. Here you can see what the use for the site was in general.
After that, I use Yahoo Site Explorer and I check the sites that throw the top 5 links at it. If they are legit, I call it a day and make a bid.
If you pay for FreshDrop, they make it very easy to sift through using their filters. That is why they are so expensive because you actually REALLY do get what you pay for over there. Their skizz is top notch.
If they domain is expired that is perfectly OK, you just want to make sure the domain is still indexed, even if just the park page is indexed. Any authority that comes from pre-existing links will be regained very quickly when you start adding content and pinging again. I have seen this time and time again.
Now here is a HINT/TIP — join for one month and go in on the month with 3 or 4 friends.. this way the cost is reduced and you can share the month. Just make sure you remember to cancel the subscription and don’t two of ya try and login at the same time! (this may break their TOS I dunno… I don’t do that so I am safe! lol )
Hi Allyn,
Another great post. I’d just like to add a few points here:
1. There are cheaper alternatives to freshdrop. I pay £12 per month (about $20) for a UK service that has similar options. Yes, they domains are all .co.uk’s and you have to do a little more work to dig out the real gems but it’s worth it.
2. Your point about Yahoo site explorer is spot on but here’s an extra word for advice for anyone using it – don’t just look at the number of backlinks to the homepage. I recently grabbed a 2 year old, PR 3 domain 10 minutes after it had expired. Did some digging and found one of the inner pages has 3 x PR 7’s, 3 PR 6’s and a boatload of PR 5’s pointing at it!!!
“Pi**ed myself with excitement” is an understatement
Hi James, there are plugins you can get that will 301 redirect any links that are pointing to the old internal pages. That is what I do, but your point is valid.
Great entry, as always!
I’ve been reading and hearing a lot about aged domains, lately. Gotta admit that I haven’t bothered with them so far as i tend to go for exact-match domains.
I’ll have to try and find a nice aged domain for my next site so I can experience the difference (or lack thereof?) myself.
Cheers,
Shane
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Hey Shane,
yep, exact match is cool no doubt, but me, lately, I am looking more for brandable and memorable domain names rather than keyword perfect.
Many times, I can get at least a small keyword in the domain too and that makes a winner.
An example: if I want to start a plumbing blog, and I can buy “bestplumber dot com” brand new or “poopyplumber dot com” that is 5 years old, I am going with the second one.
Of course, “best plumber” is the perfect keyword match, but “poopy plumber” is brandable and still hits the keyword and has the age I’m lookin’ for.
One more scenario exists too:
If I found a 10 year old with 3000 links called “buttcrackparade dot com” I’d buy that one and make my same plumber site.
Butt Crack Parade has no keywords at all, but I betcha it’s brandable and once you come on the site, you will know what’s up and so will Google.
Follow? what do you think? Lemme know k?
Haha, great examples, mate!
I see what you mean. I’ll simply have to try it out for myself, I guess. I’m seeing benefits of using exact match domains, but it’s also true that new sites are sometimes hard to get to page one and apparently for no other reason that that they are new…
I’ve been looking more and more at aged domains lately, so I’m definitely going to experiment with it.
Cheers,
Shane
I bought HBT a few months ago and it is 2yrs old now, which is probably the oldest domain I have ever bought. The best part is it was also an existing site which I redesigned and have been hammering content ever since.
The hard part is finding an aged domain with the words (or keywords if you will) already in it. Will check out freshdrop because I have a few ideas I am doing some dev for…
As usual, great video man….
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yeah man, you made a great decision buying Hot Blog Tips and you’ve done great with it IMO.
see what I said to Shane too… I am not all about the keywords in the domain these days. I kinda changed my philosophy a bit. maybe it’s all this lovey dovey social media stuff, I dunno. LOL
I agree that brand-able domains are better, I am liking this “blue ocean” style domains now. Like I just bought bizhax.com (not sure exactly what I am going to do with it, but I have a few ideas LOL). Not any keywords in that, but it’s short and memorable….
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yeah, that’s the ticket… very very brandable and memorable.
I bet once you got social with that, you’d get a lot of returning type-in traffic and to me, those are valuable visits.
Hey, Allyn,
Great post. The video was more than i was expecting – great value.
Here’s the question: are you willing to discuss how people can check how to check domain history – in a post-Wayback Machine world?.
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Yeah man! Read some of the comments/followups too as some of that is coming out already, sometimes more and better than the actual blog post. But yeah, I should do a step-by-step tutorial on Way Back Machine and the whole idea of eval on a pre-owned.. it would actually be pretty fun.
but isn’t said Way Back dead moreorless?
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Hey finn, yeah I don’t think they archive new stuff anymore but I am buying domains that are 4 and 5 or more years old and all the info I need is in there for them.
That is also why I check the backlinks to the domain and look at the most recent ones… these will indicate if the domain has been recently in a good neighborhood.
Neighborhoods. You never realize how important they are until you come across one that spent a few years in an Austrialian gambling link farm and still has the links pointing to it.
Sometimes SEO is a phone call and a “cease and desist” letter.
Is there anything close to the Way Back machine that’s getting recent content?
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Wish I saw this post before purchasing a domain last friday
Hey TKA newsy— you can still buy some more ya know??!?!??
Great way of explaining it. I think the housing example is great!
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thanks Kristen.. that is what we aim for here… illustrating this stuff in real world examples… glad it played out well, and thank you for stopping over… always good to see #nwindiana friends over on this end of the sphere.
Allyn –
Very few articles will go into the detail that you just have on why it is important to buy aged domains, and what to look for in those domains. Nice work.
thanks Joshua.
Yes, pre-owned is the way to go. I don’t always buy pre-owned domains but I do if I am starting a site that I think will be difficult to get ranked highly in the SE’s, or if I know it will be easy to find one in the niche I am going after. It’s just smart business. You did a very good job of explaining and illustrating it, as always!
thanks Bro, I kinda figured this would be nothing new to you. I dunno if you are like me, but sometimes I will buy an old domain just because of the sheer age.
Anything over 12 years old is gold to me, even it the domain name makes no sense. it’s like collecting antiques almost LOL
Oh yeah I have definitely done that. Bought one last year that is over 10 years old and never dropped. Also has a PR4 and quite a few strong backlinks, including being Yahoo directory listed all the way from back before they started making people pay. The actual domain isn’t great but it is usable and I got it for less than $50 so it was a steal. I will always buy a domain like that! Never thought of it like collecting antiques but that is a great point. LOL
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Awesome post. I still remember Vic Franqui insisting on buying preowned domains and at that time it probably was one of the best IM advices I ever received.
Anyways, as far as I know Freshdrop dot net is quite costly, especially for beginners ($97/month). So if you are not a domainer and don’t buy and sell these every day you might not want to pay this price.
I was looking for alternatives and recently stumbled upon dropday dot com (I’m not affiliate with these guys in any way and I’m not trying to promote them). I just suggest what I’m currently using because I didn’t like when the Freshdrop folks made the GoDaddy Closeouts Feed available to premium members ONLY.
Cheers!
you got it, Vic is the one that pushed me to learn more and more about aged domains.
I have never used DropDay but I will look at it. Thanks for showing me an alternative… I am always up for new things.
BTW– a little secret: the Godaddy auctions are NOT the juicy-est ones anyway. There are other auction houses that have better, older domains and Freshdrop gives access to them too. Godaddy is just the easiest, but not the best.
Yep but GoDaddy’s “buy now” closeouts are the cheapest as far as I know, right?
as far as beginning price, yes, godaddy are cheaper, but as far as “cream of the crop” there are other auction houses that have the best old stuff.
I have never bought a pre-owned domain but I think the next one I buy I will look into Freshdrop. It sounds like it is definitely worth the extra money to buy pre-owned and already be in good with Google rather than starting from fresh.
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you got it Tiffany. If you take time and buy one good one… and old one with links… and then work it, you will see how much faster it grows… that of course assumes you pick good keywords and do your content right.
While Hilary would never be a selling point, you have worked the analogies very well. This is something I looked into a while back, but it seemed no one really knew what they were talking about.
I’d also like to see a response to Word Vixens question; it’s important.
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asked an answered Dennis.
BTW– you can get pre-owned with lots of age and lots of links for less than $20 each. you just have to dig.
Go get one and try it and see, I bet you will be surprised at the results.
Love the real estate examples!
hey, where’s your normal crass, slightly jaded comment? you ok???
Awesome example for those of us who are right/left brain challenged. Can’t remember which I supposedly am.
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you are all brain and all brawn brudda… you are Don Johnson!
With the sub prime crisis over the last couple of years, there must have been more aged domains up for foreclosure which you snapped up – no wonder you’re making a pile now!
Ha yes! The best sites are old political ones… they have many many links and also defunct businesses in the tech industry. There are lots of those too!
Their misfortune is my new gold rush. (did I say that?)
Internet Infill, gotta love it. However, will the community heritage association complain about your new fancy site taking away from historical significance of the local ‘web ring’ of 1998 style sites?
It is important to research the domains prior to buying them. One I recently bought was the subject of a police investigation so I got to explain the art and science of domain buying to a detective over the phone! It seems the prior owner was the subject of a misappropriation of government funds investigation.
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LOL Frank, love when you add to the illustration!
Craftsman style = MFA
Pretty funny having a detective call ya… I guess he had the cred to break thru the private registration eh?
I do like buying the defunct political sites too… those can be fun to play with.
Thoroughly enjoyed that! Recommended from James Richmond, The Infopreneur.
Hi Sheila, glad you liked my skiz. thanks for popping into the site.
Hey Allyn! I am a long time reader of BIG GRIZZ and I miss him so I use you as a quick fix.
Anyways, love your blog and your original approach to beating the dead horse. If that made any sense.
I am personally not a big fan of pre-owned domains for a few reasons.
1) There is really no way of telling what the previous owner did with the domain. I really think you should have wrote a little more about this, but you are the master of this domain.
2) There is something to be said for building your own legacy. I am a one huge site kind of guy, I have 2 sites that I am hoping to build into a about.com size site. Once these sites reach maturity and is recognized by marketers around the world. I can feel happy because I did it from the ground up. You a builder you should know the feeling.
Other than that great post and while I do not comment much, just know that I am a big supporter.
PS: Tell Grizz I said WTF.
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Hi Isaac,
I certainly can tell what was done with a domain as far as if it was used in bad areas or not. Other than that, I don’t care.
I can respect your approach on legacy, but… Think about this:
If I buy a 1967 Shelby Mustang that is rusted and neglected and restore it frame off first class, who will be recognized for that achievement?… the guys who orginally built it, or me, the current owner?
The fact that it is a Shelby brings credibility, and the fact that it is shiny and beautiful now brings fame baby! LOL
Hey Allyn,
Excellent post…. I have hovered around in Freshdrop over the years but NEVER made a purchase.
I don’t need any new big sites right now but….. Would you say there was a point to buying established domains to redirect to my main site in the same niche, or putting up small 5 page sites on them heavily linking to my main site?
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yeah man, you can do the 301 redirect thing to get some juice, but using those domains to build support sites would be better. I don’t recommend heavy linking however as that looks funky, but one with good anchor would work well.
Allyn, I fell behind a bit on watching NW Indiana blogs, and just got here today. Thanks again for explaining in such detail things you’ve learned over the last few years. You mentioned to me last time we talked a specific niche that I have quite a bit of experience with … time to go use that leverage I think.
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coolness Steve, go get some!
Pre-owned domains, in my estimation, will grow in traffic 60% faster than a brand new one and that is worth it, especially for a busy dude like yourself!
Wow, never considered before about buy a domain. Now I am checking all the websites for selling:
2 questions:
- If I buy a domain and I change the server, are there any losses?
- What is exactly in the glass of your kitchen?
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Hi Cherry,
Changing the server makes no difference in the site’s athority.
I have pinkk lemonade in that glass, lol
That freshdrop site looks fairly complicated. I’ll have to spend some time looking at that one. You make a good point, but I’ve always been to cheap to pay for an aged domain. I guess you get what you pay for is true.
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Hi Mike, if you go in there, the good news is you can’t break anything! lol
As far as spending money, I can tell you that in any business, lots of money has to be laid out in order to make profit… with IM, it is less of course, but you still gotta spend money to make it.
LOL this post is highly ironic – I’ve just sold our house and now I am tossing up between some pre-owneds (too many issues with new builds – particularly around getting a broadband connection) . The problem is of course there is waaaay too many factors for houses – keywords are so much easier!
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Hey Lis, sorry I have not been over to your site in a while, I need to get over there, just been super duper busy with real world work.
Why is it so difficult to get broadband in a new house over there? and you are right, keywords are much easier and cheaper, lol
Oh particularly in new sub-divs they don’t put enough ports in the cabinets – obviously hardly anyone would want a broadband having just bought an expensive house! If you complain to a national news TV show though you get it pretty darn fast! The problem is with only 4 million people you can’t really have competition in the basic infrastructure. Though Australia is even worse from what I heard over there
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Hi Allyn I found a 13 year old domain, but it has only like 30 links, its history looks clean though, is it a good investment at about $100? Its a direct sale not an auction. The bad thing is that it has no keywords in it, it just a generic name.
Hi Gilles, there is no clear cut answer here. The age is good but has it been live on the net all that time?
Since no keywords in there, is it brandable?
What would you use it for? If you have a great idea to use it with, then go for it.
I know what you mean with preowned, but if you don’t have the idea what will you do with the domain, it’s no use if you buy one that already existed. Example i buy domain, work and i need a domain about design. It’ll take years to turn around the background of the domain, in the eyes of Google and other search engines.
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actually, no.. put content on the site about your new topic and get a couple authority links anchoring your new keyword and you are turned around within weeks.
Hey Allyn
Good information today. Forget the red shirt…I kinda like the cool shades in the opening segment of your video…I have 1 aged domain that is like 7 or 8 yrs old. Have content and it was ranked fairly high awhile ago, but lost some authority, It is still indexed. So I will have to go back and put some serious effort into it.
Part of what happened is another site moved up as well and was keyword specific to my market, so I focused on that. But you are right again, age is a good think and it doesn’t have to be keyword specific in your domain name to rank high.
So many projects to do and not enough time. Ya, I know the feeling. Its Saturday, sunny and warm outside, but I am stuck at work for 10 hours.
Have a beer or 2 for me Allyn.
Oh – how is that other website going for you by the way? Haven’t been over there much lately. Re: Beer review site
Cheers
It does seem like a cool way to buy a domain pre-loaded with quality inbound links spread over time.
I guess the value of the links could be a way to justify the price to yourself and of course the future potential of what you think you could gain once you establish your website.
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Hey Allyn,
Great post! I’ve heard a lot about how pre-owned domains are important, and even why they were, but finding good information on how to find them, what to look for, and what to avoid was hard to come by. Appreciate the detailed post and comment answers on all 3 of these. Looking forward to applying them, as well
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It does seem like a cool way to buy a domain pre-loaded with quality inbound links spread over time.
I guess the value of the links could be a way to justify the price to yourself and of course the future potential of what you think you could gain once you establish your website.
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(not even sure if blockquote works on here lol we’ll find out)
OMG LOL LOL this part had me cracking up. Sometimes people in Park Ridge die. Anyway, I like the analogy. While I know what a POD is, I like the simplicity of the explanation. It took me forever to finally getting around to reading this, which is funny considering I nag you for updates right?
Hi Allyn,
. Guess where my link will be going?
I’ve buying aged domains for a few months now. I get a copywriter to put together about 10 pages of decent content and, when I’ve bought an expired domain, I rebuild the original site structure. It’s always worth looking at the internal pages as I recently bought a PR 3, 5 year old domain about 5 minutes after it expired. On doing a little investigation, I found one of the inner pages has 2 PR 7’s, 4 PR 6’s and a whole bundle of 4’s and 5’s pointing at it (all dofollow) – bonus
It’s nice to see things be put into perspective. You have a great sense of humor dude. Thanks.
GIMMIE NEW CONTENT!
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@Finn – you must have realised by now that Allyn is far from being a sprinter. He’s more like the tortoise in a marathon; slowly, but surely, moving forward but always consistent
But one can still hope!
Buying a pre owned domain is good for your google ranking, and trust, but still there is a risk if that domain is banned by google.
Well first, you’re more entertaining that anything on tv. My laugh of the day and I needed that. Second, great article…especially Freshdrop. I’ve been doing what I do online since 1996 and never heard of that one. Perhaps you could expand on Freshdrop on a future post? (And make me laugh again…I need the chuckles.)
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Allyn Great post as always! Ive missed ya. pls dont stay away so long.
Great tips and article! I know through experience that buying a pre-owned domain name with a good reputation can take alot of the headache out of building up page rank and trust with the search engines.
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What happened, did this blog become dead?
p.s. is the domain up for sale?
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none of the above Andrew, but thanks for playing!
I think buying a pre owned domain name is a good idea to get more traffic to our site sine the old domains already have good amount of traffic. Also someday it will also help us getting a better PR only thing is that it should not have been used for illegal websites like Gambling etc.
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While I agree FreshDrop offers a whole lot more, if your budget is tight and you got no friends to go in on for freshdrop, then godaddy auctions can be accessed via auctions.godaddy.com for next to nothing. I think they have some small annual fee. I have gotten some gems that way.
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agreed Dave, but sifting with Godaddy auctions is a lot of work IMO.
One month on Freshdrop and I can bid on 500 domains or at least “watch” them, and then cancel the membership if I have to.
just something to think about.
thanks for stopping over!
AL