[Study]Is It OK to Reuse Articles from Expired Domains?

[praetserge]

ok, I have found an expired domain which has a few very insightful and well researched articles, just a few articles so I guess it's the reason it didn't rank.
So I'm doing a test to see if it's good or bad to use those articles.
I posted 1 article (it's over 2k words) on my money site.
What I want to see:
1. If my site's rankings will go down - i'll just remove the article and move on
2. If it ranks for a few keywords - awesome
3. if it doesn't rank but make my website better - ok

The article (even parts of it) is not posted anywhere and it's very good.
I know some people will say it's good and some will say it's bad so I'm curious to see what happens.
When push comes to shove I can easily delete the article and move on

PS: no, the article is not indexed yet as I posted it right before I wrote up this post.

 

[Tizzu]

Following

 

[Wikidepia]

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I tried once before but nothing really changes. Good luck

 

[Dr.Rok]

It can work, it also just depends on how relevant the article is to your topic and audience. If it is information that user are actually looking for it can def help, but at the same time if it is a 2000k page about why the pet rock is a historical figure, nobody would care.

Just make sure you structure the page correctly and the content isnt somewhere else on the net and it should have a positive impact. At the very least it will expand your site on said topic.

 

[barnaba1984]

If we can edit the article in a way related to our blog it helps a lot.

 

[Hawkster]

I have used articles from expired domains using wayback machine and they have ranked just fine. Anyone says its bad are either not great with SEO (most of the time the articles from these expired domains need optimizing) or they lost rankings for some other reason.

Having said that i do wonder at what point google will start using AI to fish out articles from old expired sites. But then if you have optimized them and added your own touches i can't see it being an issue.

 

[jamie3000]

Following. My guess is it will work fine.

 

[praetserge]

I have used articles from expired domains using wayback machine and they have ranked just fine. Anyone says its bad are either not great with SEO (most of the time the articles from these expired domains need optimizing) or they lost rankings for some other reason.

Having said that i do wonder at what point google will start using AI to fish out articles from old expired sites. But then if you have optimized them and added your own touches i can't see it being an issue.

Thank you very much for a thoughtful feedback.
The site has a few nice articles which barely need any changes... I've corrected a few sentences only as the article I posted is pretty much perfect. I'm in an ever-green niche.

PS: bing has indexed the article already (I used bing console) and by the morning I expect google to index it as well.

PSS: I know I'm curious to see how it performs but I do understand it that i need to wait for at least 2 weeks before drawing conclusions.

 

[Hawkster]

Thank you very much for a thoughtful feedback.
The site has a few nice articles which barely need any changes... I've corrected a few sentences only as the article I posted is pretty much perfect. I'm in an ever-green niche.

PS: bing has indexed the article already (I used bing console) and by the morning I expect google to index it as well.

PSS: I know I'm curious to see how it performs but I do understand it that i need to wait for at least 2 weeks before drawing conclusions.

I'll keep an eye on your thread out of interest. Cheers

 

[praetserge]

OK, I used medium.com method to index this expired article on my money site and a few other sites like google sites.
All other links got indexed by google and show up in results.
As for the money site article? This strange thing happened, in GSC it shows as submitted and indexed but if i go to google search the article doesn't appear if I use 'site:example.com/article'. I've seen quite a few people reporting the same problem so i guess I will just wait for a bit and hope it will show up in google search.

 

[kasak100]

ok, I have found an expired domain which has a few very insightful and well researched articles, just a few articles so I guess it's the reason it didn't rank.
So I'm doing a test to see if it's good or bad to use those articles.
I posted 1 article (it's over 2k words) on my money site.
What I want to see:
1. If my site's rankings will go down - i'll just remove the article and move on
2. If it ranks for a few keywords - awesome
3. if it doesn't rank but make my website better - ok

The article (even parts of it) is not posted anywhere and it's very good.
I know some people will say it's good and some will say it's bad so I'm curious to see what happens.
When push comes to shove I can easily delete the article and move on

PS: no, the article is not indexed yet as I posted it right before I wrote up this post.

I tried and got nothing, good luck!

 

[HustleTong]

It works fine. Given you ought to blend them with pre-written content. Say, you've expired articles with 2K+ words each. I'd hire a VA to fetch some re-witten content around 500w per post. And the end product should make sense

 

[Psh]

OK, I used medium.com method to index this expired article on my money site and a few other sites like google sites.
All other links got indexed by google and show up in results.
As for the money site article? This strange thing happened, in GSC it shows as submitted and indexed but if i go to google search the article doesn't appear if I use 'site:example.com/article'. I've seen quite a few people reporting the same problem so i guess I will just wait for a bit and hope it will show up in google search.

I've had this issue on multiple sites that were started after the Google update in May. Doesn't matter if it was expired or new domain.

 

[praetserge]

I've had this issue on multiple sites that were started after the Google update in May. Doesn't matter if it was expired or new domain.

So I guess I just need to wait a bit longer and then article will eventually get indexed?

 

[Psh]

So I guess I just need to wait a bit longer and then article will eventually get indexed?

Yeah, it did for me at least. Just takes a lot longer. It's like they made an extra deluxe super sandbox after the update.

 

[Mr Positive]

It should work, edit it, spin it if you wish, get it copyscape passed and use an seo plugin to make it seo friendly worth a try

 

[Panther28]

I've done it with a few sites and ranked brilliantly.

 

[MisterF]

I found a site 3-4 years back and the articles were perfect and 100% niche relevant to a site I was building out.

Ran them through a plagiarism checker and found someone had taken them all and was using them on their site.

As the domain was still expired, I bought the domains and repopulated it using all the articles and I am still outranking the site that took them.

 

[693840]

I found a site 3-4 years back and the articles were perfect and 100% niche relevant to a site I was building out.

Ran them through a plagiarism checker and found someone had taken them all and was using them on their site.

As the domain was still expired, I bought the domains and repopulated it using all the articles and I am still outranking the site that took them.

That's really a 1000 IQ BHW Mod move

 

[MisterF]

That's really a 1000 IQ BHW Mod move

I've seen where people say Google considers the original site as the one that the content belongs to, so decided to try it out.


The content was so well written even to get it rewritten would have cost $300-400, so it was cheaper to spend $10 on the .com and $50 to a va to do the job.

Work smarter, not harder.