301 redirect from expired domains

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androus

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Jun 29, 2010

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• Sep 25, 2012

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Hi,

I'm trying to rank my website for a commercial competitive keyword. On the first and second website (my competitors) for this keyword there is a dead link on the homepage. These dead links refer to expired domains.

Will it help to buy these 2 domains and redirect them to my website ? I'm pretty sure they won't notice it because they're not checking dead links so the link could stay on their homepages for a long time.

Thank you !

 

LBrown

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Mar 22, 2011

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• Sep 25, 2012

• #2

Yes, do it. That's a great opportunity you've found right there.

 

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androus

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• Sep 25, 2012
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• #3

Thank you LBrown,

Indeed i was very surprise to find expired domains on the homepage of my 2 main competitors ^^ I'll do it, i'll report my results on this thread.

 

ibmethatswhoib

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Feb 17, 2011

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• Sep 25, 2012

• #4

Ya that's nuts, better jump on that.

 

-adrian

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What a great idea.. I doubt you'll see that happen very often, take it while it's there.

 

vision2003

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Just be careful - if they were previously penalized, they will transfer the penalty to new domain eventually.

 

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androus

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• Sep 26, 2012
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-adrian said:

What a great idea.. I doubt you'll see that happen very often, take it while it's there.

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I just tried on an other keyword and I also found expired domains ! However I was not so lucky because their rankings were around 5-8 position.
My conclusion : it costs nothing to check, we just need scrapebox to find competitors on the first page for some keywords then Xenu to check for expired domains

I bought the two domains, i'll report the results in this thread.