How to Find Niche Related Expired domains for your PBN (for Free) This is the method I use to find niche related expired domains with decent metrics . The good thing about this method is you do not have to pay a lot of $$ for the domain or go to a bidding war in an auction. Find the domain with your desired metrics, register at your favorite domain name registrar for $10 or less, that's it! There are hardcore expired domain miners with custom software, crawlers etc spending a lot of resources . This method is not comparable to those This is a very basic way to get some decent domains and this guide is for the newbie, beginner who don't have all those resources. This method is not a new one, not invented my be or something. Not taking credit for it Basic Idea : Basic idea is to find old web site pages that contains URLS of other sites. Because some webmasters don't update their old pages , chances are that some of these URLS in those pages have been expired . What we are going to do is to get a list of these URLs and check if they are expired and available for registering. If they are available for registering, run through our metric checks and find if there are anything that we can use as a PBN domain! Lets get to business.. What you need, 1. Xenu link Sleuth Code: http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html 2. MS Excel or Openoffie 3. Majestic Account (or ) Code: http://mschecker.ga/ 4. Moz Account 5. Firefox or Chrome with Moz bar enabled 6. Bulk domain Checker Steps 1. Go to google.com and type ?Your niche? + ?links? 2. Click Settings → Search Settings → Never show Instant Results Results per page 100 Click Save 3. Click Search Tools → Anytime-> custom Range-> From 2003 To 2011 4. Click Moz Bar → Click Export SERP Analysis to CSV 5. Delete everything except the URL column 6. click Filter->Test Filter-> Contains Link 7. Copy the filtered list to a text file and save 8. Open Xenu 9. Go to Options-> Preference , Use the settings below 10. Run the saved text file with Xenu 11. After Xenu has run your text file, Click Ctrl+T to export the list as a tab separated file 12. Export the URL list to Excel and Filter out all except having 'No Such Host' 13. clean up the list - Delete the TLDs that you dont want etc. 14. open a bulk domain checker , copy paste the domain list 15. Get the available domains and filter them out to your metric preference How to filter out some good domains from this list This metrics filtering really depends on what you are looking for in a domain. Use this guide but use your own desired metrics preferences. If you are complete noob , You can use this guide here as a reference too. link: Code: http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/black-hat-seo/678925-how-build-your-own-pbn-under-275-15-domains.html How to check Majestic, Moz and Archive.org 1. Majestic If you have a Majestic account (paid one) you can use the bulk domain checker. Upload the available domain list and filter it according to your preference. If you like to sort the list according to to TF for example, you can choose it from the list. When you found anything interesting, go to the next step. 1. Check for the anchor tags to see , if there are any Chinese, Russian or other foreign language anchor tags OR Viagra / shady anchors. 2. Check for number of Backlinks/ Referring Ips/ EDU, GOV backlinks Note: If you do not have a paid account, you can still use the free account. The problem with the free account is you cant use the bulk checker and there's a limit to the queries you can make per day. I have found that this site Code: [URL]http://mschecker.ga/[/URL] gives free TF/CF checking. But I honestly don't know if there's any catch there, since Majestic API calling is expensive and these guys somehow offer it for free. 2. Moz You can check the PA , DA of the domains here Some people do not go after PA, DA since it can be easily manipulated by SER link blasts and all. So it is really a personal preference. 3. Archive.org When you find a domain that matched your TF/CF , DA/PA metrics, search for the domain in the Wayback machine. What to look for in the wayback machine: Is the domain has been used a s PBN in past? Is the domain used as Chinese/Russian Spam sites? If they are not used as PBNs in the past or were not used as Chinese/Russian spam sites you are good to register that particular domain! Using this method, I have found few decent expired domains in my niches. If you have the time and patience to go through the steps , you will also be able to find some good domains for less $$. You can use scrapebox to make this process easier. If I have missed something , sorry for that. Was writing in a hurry Good luck with domain hunting!
Nice share OP, I have been using Xenu for scraping expired domains, but the real thing lies you you build your seed list of urls. If you get good seed url's you can surely find quite a handful of domains with good metrics and backlinks. There are already youtube video's explaining this method. I have a question I sometimes get good domains with good metrics, non spammy anchor texts, & decent backlinks, but they do have a Chinese website at archive.org. Is is ok to ignore them just because of their historical website in Chinese?
If I see Chinese site in archive.org, i just stay away from that domain. Two times I ignored this , because those domains were having really really good metrics. I just couldn't resist them and I was in shopping mode too So, I registered them , added some HQ posts, but they never got indexed. After this experience, I just stay away from them Anyway I am also interested to hear others experience about this.
Thank you very much for this awesome tutorial I wonder which one is efficient in finding expired domains? using the Xenu tool or just use SB?
Both are good. If you have a good custom footprints and a big seed list SB makes things easier +faster though .
links are external links from the site from the results. that's the domains we check for availbility and stats.
Awesome post and information for manually finding expired domains. Though I am using one automated application to find expired domains.
