Just bought expired domain need some advise please

[DBUZZ]

Hi all after some help and advice, I'm fairly new to this and would appreciate any guidance, criticism or other.

So I just bought an expiring domain name at godaddy at a reasonable price.

I saw it on Domcop and all the metrics looked good to me.

Age: 5years
Ahrefs DR: 9
Moz DA: 41
Moz PA: 27
Moz Rank: 4.10
Moz Trust: 4.10
Maj CFL: 10
Maj TF: 0
Ahrefs Dom: 154
Moz Dom: 1.1K
Maj Dom: 245
Page Rank: 4

lots of previous backlinks and content relevant to my niche.

My question is can I use this immediately as my money site (e-commerce selling products) the URL is fitting as are the backlinks. or other?

My other site is in development and has 0 content and 0 backlinks.

I would really appreciate any tips or guides how to work with this expired domain


Many Thanks

 

[domainmafia]

Yup, nothing to stop you using this domain name immediately. Even if you don't start selling from it immediately you are probably better off scraping the old site from archive.org and hosting it. Reason for this is that if site owners check for dead links then the one to your site will get removed so get it up and running again as soon as possible to make sure it doesn't lose too many of its links.

When you have your new site up and running you could choose to 301 the expired domain to the new to give it an immediate kick or just take whatever you are building for your site and just host it under the expire domain and forget using the one you were going to use.

You have a lot of options so choose whatever works before for you!

 

[DBUZZ]

Yup, nothing to stop you using this domain name immediately. Even if you don't start selling from it immediately you are probably better off scraping the old site from archive.org and hosting it. Reason for this is that if site owners check for dead links then the one to your site will get removed so get it up and running again as soon as possible to make sure it doesn't lose too many of its links.

When you have your new site up and running you could choose to 301 the expired domain to the new to give it an immediate kick or just take whatever you are building for your site and just host it under the expire domain and forget using the one you were going to use.

You have a lot of options so choose whatever works before for you!

Thanks for your advice man, much appreciated.

The domain metrics according to domcop are more powerful than top ranking competition in my niche.

As far as redirecting to new site (under development) i'm not bothered about the domain as the one purchased is relevant and not off topic. I just want to rank as quickly and legitimately in the eyes of g00gle as possible.

So I should retrace and replicate all the content from the site before on the archive.org or the url's with new content even more specific to my products?

Really appreciate your help, thank-you for your time.

 

[DBUZZ]

I bought this with 3mins remaining (but at an affordable price) on checking in more detail archive.org again I've noticed that the content changed last capture September 2017 from my relevant topic (still main backlinks) to December of 2017 the topic focus is on Resume Cover Letter Template, is this still worth making a store out of?

Thanks again for any advice, this community is great!

 

[domainmafia]

If someone has already repurposed the domain before then there is a risk that it has a penalty against it or some other issue. In this case I would definitely grab the original content if at all possible and rehost the domain. Let G spider the domain, add it to webmaster tools and try and get a few new links to it, nothing over the top though, just some genuine directory links or something. Then check some of the content pages by doing a site: search to see if the pages are indexed. If they are showing up in the index then search for the keywords the page is targeted at or search for a sting (six or so words) of text and see if the page is returned in results at all. If it is then you can work with the domain, if you can get pages returning at all in search then there could be a penalty or other issue with the domain and you would need to reconsider. For the time to scrape and host the domain it is definitely worth a try just to see what happens

 

[DBUZZ]

If someone has already repurposed the domain before then there is a risk that it has a penalty against it or some other issue. In this case I would definitely grab the original content if at all possible and rehost the domain. Let G spider the domain, add it to webmaster tools and try and get a few new links to it, nothing over the top though, just some genuine directory links or something. Then check some of the content pages by doing a site: search to see if the pages are indexed. If they are showing up in the index then search for the keywords the page is targeted at or search for a sting (six or so words) of text and see if the page is returned in results at all. If it is then you can work with the domain, if you can get pages returning at all in search then there could be a penalty or other issue with the domain and you would need to reconsider. For the time to scrape and host the domain it is definitely worth a try just to see what happens

Thanks again for your time and support, I've PM'd you please feel free to discuss on DM or on this Thread.

Legend, be lost without people like you. This forum is the best!

 

[domainmafia]

Have had a look at the domain for @DBUZZ and it has been repurposed previously. I have recommended to set the domain up as single page to start and see if gets indexed and, if it does, then maybe use it as a link to his money site later on. It pays massively to check any domain you look to buy in Majestic, the information it gives up about domains is superb.

 

[DBUZZ]

Thanks for your detailed advise.

It's very much appreciated.

Cheers dude.

 

[DBUZZ]

its guys like @domainmafia that make this forum great. Cheers g!

 

[296628]

Yup . i agree, scrape and build! i have a site now with tons of link that are pointed to pages that no longer exist. Def need to get that juice back.

 

[DBUZZ]

Yup . i agree, scrape and build! i have a site now with tons of link that are pointed to pages that no longer exist. Def need to get that juice back.

Thanks whats the best way to do this? sorry for the noob question; point me in the way of a thread if one exists.

I'll get on it right away.

Thanks

 

[DBUZZ]

Wayback Machine Downloader?

 

[domainmafia]

Wayback Machine Downloader?

Yup, that's what I am currently using