125 articles with 100% unique content?

[don7777]

Hi all,

I just scraped 125 articles from an expired domain. The content is 100% unique, which I verified with Copyscape.

All are niche relevant articles and the total word count is around 100,000.

I just want advice on the best way to use these articles.

1. Should I purchase this expired domain and rebuild the site from the beginning?
2. Buy a new domain and publish these articles there.
3. Create a quora account and use the content to answer niche relevant questions.

Appreciate your help!

-cj

 

[ComputerRing]

What is your goal with these articles or the domain?

What would you go from posting the articles on Quora? Is the niche that interesting?

 

[don7777]

What is your goal with these articles or the domain?

What would you go from posting the articles on Quora? Is the niche that interesting?

My idea is to create a website and monetize it. But I need more expert advice on how to proceed with it or whether it is worth doing.

Niche is a very popular one which I know about.

 

[Elvlin]

is the article that good? if it's you can drip feed it to your site publish it slowly
if you want to be safe use it for t2 content

 

[don7777]

is the article that good? if it's you can drip feed it to your site publish it slowly
if you want to be safe use it for t2 content

Should I use the expired domain where I scraped the articles or a fresh domain?

 

[tazarbm]

if the domain where you scraped the articles from is good (clean and with good backlinks... or no backlinks but at least clean) I would recreate it... or at least the pages with good backlinks (if such pages exist) so that when the domain gets re-indexed it bypasses the sandbox (saves you some 3-12 precious months of waiting) and hopefully ranks outright.

If the domain where this content came from is not good or powerful then simply use them as tier 2 content, as @Elvlin said, or you can use it on Quora if you absolutely want to deal with Quora.

Or just use this content on fresh domain, but still mix it with new content for best results. I can't prove this but I have a suspicion that google, being the scumbag trackers that they are, keep track of all expired content (without making this public to the people, obviously) so that whenever someone re-publishes expired content they (google) can quickly penalize them. That's why it's better to mix this content with new content, maybe this way you can bypass any potential google penalties that might exist for this type of behaviour that only SEOs have.

 

[Elvlin]

Should I use the expired domain where I scraped the articles or a fresh domain?

you should check how is the domain in the past, does it have good track record, how many visitor it have, how it backlink quality etc. as @tazarbm said if the backlink quality is good than it's no brainer to recreate the page and use the domain.
it's basicly one of the reason people buy expired domain.

 

[itz_styx]

if you can get the domain and just rebuild it.

 

[don7777]

if the domain where you scraped the articles from is good (clean and with good backlinks... or no backlinks but at least clean) I would recreate the pages... or at least the pages with good backlinks (if such pages exist) so that when the domain gets re-indexed it bypasses the sandbox (saves you some 3-12 precious months of waiting) and hopefully ranks outright.

If the domain where this content came from is not good or powerful then simply use them as tier 2 content, as @Elvlin said, or you can use it on Quora if you absolutely want to deal with Quora.

Or just use this content on fresh domain, but still mix it with new content for best results. I can't prove this but I have a suspicion that google, being the scumbag trackers that they are, keep track of all expired content (without making this public to the people, obviously) so that whenever someone re-publishes expired content they (google) can quickly penalize them. That's why it's better to mix this content with new content, maybe this way you can bypass any potential google penalties that might exist for this type of behaviour that only SEOs have.

The expired domain shows DA 13 on Moz. Ahrefs shows 283 backlinks, out of which 83% are do-follow and RD is 43. Per ubersuggest, DA 13, referring domains 100, 600+ backlinks (only 71 no-follow).

 

[don7777]

you should check how is the domain in the past, does it have good track record, how many visitor it have, how it backlink quality etc. as @tazarbm said if the backlink quality is good than it's no brainer to recreate the page and use the domain.
it's basicly one of the reason people buy expired domain.

Is there a place where I can check the domain history and track record?

 

[aristocratic]

Is there a place where I can check the domain history and track record?

You can check if the domain history and if it was used as a 301 here:
https://archive.org/web/
Check anchors on Ahref or Semrush.

 

[tazarbm]

The expired domain shows DA 13 on Moz. Ahrefs shows 283 backlinks, out of which 83% are do-follow and RD is 43. Per ubersuggest, DA 13, referring domains 100, 600+ backlinks (only 71 no-follow).

this doesn't tell me too much... especially with such a big difference in number of backlinks between the 2 tools. You need to analyze the quality of those backlinks and the types of anchor texts, as well... oh, and you also need to check the domain in WBM for redirects and spammy content and then you'll know if the domain is worth re-building or not.

But I'm not getting into details on how to do these things as they've already been explained many times on this forum. Just look them up

 

[Alae63]

How did you scrap those articles if I may ask?

 

[don7777]

You can check if the domain history and if it was used as a 301 here:
https://archive.org/web/
Check anchors on Ahref or Semrush.

thank you!

this doesn't tell me too much... especially with such a big difference in number of backlinks between the 2 tools. You need to analyze the quality of those backlinks and the types of anchor texts, as well... oh, and you also need to check the domain in WBM for redirects and spammy content and then you'll know if the domain is worth re-building or not.

But I'm not getting into details on how to do these things as they've already been explained many times on this forum. Just look them up

going to check the history of the domain using the WBM. thanks

How did you scrap those articles if I may ask?

manual copy and paste into a word document.

 

[DeadJoe]

Vet the domain properly, you can lift the content and use it anywhere as long as it is not indexed. The best case scenario here is to obviously get the old domain and recreate the site but ONLY if the domain is clean.

Now for what you don't want to hear, just because you have 125 articles, doesn't mean shit. I have never come across an expired domain where the articles targeted easy to rank keywords served in a platter. Generally, these domains are owned by people who are not exactly SEO literate. You can try recreating the site but do some analysis first, are these keywords even worth going after? 10 articles on low competition keywords can drive more traffic than 200 articles on random/difficult keywords.

I always rebuild money sites on old domains and I restore the old content. Guess what? the old content never really ranks because it is either written without any keywords in mind, or the keywords targetted are not easy to rank for. I use strong non-dropped domains and even then the rankings don't come for their original content. There is nothing wrong with the content, it is often very detailed but it is not written by someone with SEO knowledge. On the same domain when I post content targeting good keywords the articles start ranking.

Finally, regardless of how powerful the domain is, if it is not indexed you will have to go through a sandbox period. Anyone telling you otherwise has not worked with expired domains before. A new site, regardless of the existing backlink profile, will go through the sandbox. Stronger domains come out of the sandbox quicker, but they still go through a period where google holds rankings back.

 

[kalpana007]

Use a expired domain and proceed.

 

[JasonS]

Register the expired domain if it's clean
Use the content for selling blog post links

Quick and easy money.

 

[blackbeans]

I think there are more than three options available for the kind of content you've put together.

Assuming that the existing copyright owner doesn't come after you for copyright infringement when they see their stuff republished online, there are alternatives you can use.

You take content, edit it into a video script, feed it into text-to-audio software, and have a virtual assistant create videos from this material.

Assuming that it's a high-quality material, you might be sitting on a goldmine because you can put up the videos on your YouTube channel.

Make sure you use specific questions you can use for the video.

You can also make shorter versions and upload them to TikTok.

Make sure you target the right hashtags.

You can also use the same strategy for Instagram and Facebook reels.

You can also take screenshots of the video you had created using stock video or Canva covers and promote the videos on Pinterest.

There are many more ways to skin this cat and monetize it.

You're just scraping the surface here.

But you may be running a big risk if it's only republishing the materials on your domain or a completely new domain.

Please understand that expired content, as far as intellectual property goes, still belongs to the original publisher of those materials.

It would be a shame for you to create a successful blog using expired content only to have those profits taken by the actual rights owner.

 

[don7777]

Vet the domain properly, you can lift the content and use it anywhere as long as it is not indexed. The best case scenario here is to obviously get the old domain and recreate the site but ONLY if the domain is clean.

Now for what you don't want to hear, just because you have 125 articles, doesn't mean shit. I have never come across an expired domain where the articles targeted easy to rank keywords served in a platter. Generally, these domains are owned by people who are not exactly SEO literate. You can try recreating the site but do some analysis first, are these keywords even worth going after? 10 articles on low competition keywords can drive more traffic than 200 articles on random/difficult keywords.

I always rebuild money sites on old domains and I restore the old content. Guess what? the old content never really ranks because it is either written without any keywords in mind, or the keywords targetted are not easy to rank for. I use strong non-dropped domains and even then the rankings don't come for their original content. There is nothing wrong with the content, it is often very detailed but it is not written by someone with SEO knowledge. On the same domain when I post content targeting good keywords the articles start ranking.

Finally, regardless of how powerful the domain is, if it is not indexed you will have to go through a sandbox period. Anyone telling you otherwise has not worked with expired domains before. A new site, regardless of the existing backlink profile, will go through the sandbox. Stronger domains come out of the sandbox quicker, but they still go through a period where google holds rankings back.

Thanks for your thoughts. The articles are not top-notch and were written during 2012 to 2015. I ran all of them through Copysrape and they are all unique articles. The articles are key word targeted but not that detail.

I think there are more than three options available for the kind of content you've put together.

Assuming that the existing copyright owner doesn't come after you for copyright infringement when they see their stuff republished online, there are alternatives you can use.

You take content, edit it into a video script, feed it into text-to-audio software, and have a virtual assistant create videos from this material.

Assuming that it's a high-quality material, you might be sitting on a goldmine because you can put up the videos on your YouTube channel.

Make sure you use specific questions you can use for the video.

You can also make shorter versions and upload them to TikTok.

Make sure you target the right hashtags.

You can also use the same strategy for Instagram and Facebook reels.

You can also take screenshots of the video you had created using stock video or Canva covers and promote the videos on Pinterest.

There are many more ways to skin this cat and monetize it.

You're just scraping the surface here.

But you may be running a big risk if it's only republishing the materials on your domain or a completely new domain.

Please understand that expired content, as far as intellectual property goes, still belongs to the original publisher of those materials.

It would be a shame for you to create a successful blog using expired content only to have those profits taken by the actual rights owner.

Great explanation. You gave me some great points that I hadn't thought of.