Happy belated birthday I'll be turning 49 on the 13th myself
Thanks for the well-wishes!
@Almighty Pull - can you share a guide on how to do this?
I'll cover what I did today as an example for you. Maybe it will help, and I'll be corrected by those who know more.
Today I woke up to scrapebox expired domain finder giving me about 16,000 expired domains. It had a busy night, and I had a busy morning since my son decided kindergarten wasn't for him. After a cup of tea, it was time to sort.
Sidenote for scraping:
- I take a pdf book and converted it to txt
- Randomize putting 1-4 word(s) on each new line using Atom
- Filtered out lines with weird characters from the conversion with regex
- Used that as a seed to scrape more keywords with scrapebox
- Randomized keywords with scrapebox, and trimmed the size of the list to what I think I would reasonably use and a bit more.
- Scraped urls with scrapebox based on the wordlist. I'm using stormproxies backconnect proxies to scrape.
- Trimmed out any .jp, .ru, .gov, .au, and other tlds that require citizenship or tax id.
- When I have my URL list I send it through my Godaddy filter bot to remove anything that I didn't catch before and leave me only domains I can register (I use the bot to make it faster, but you can use the bulk domain search for this as well.)
- Sent my list through Majestic, filter based on TF and retained some metrics for use later (TF Topics, TF Topics score, Languages of Ref)
- Sent it through ahrefs using my bot (you can just use the 200 limit bulk search) and filtered based on ref dom
- Checked the backlink quality and filtered out domains with bad backlinks (spammy or unrelated to the original site)
- Finally, I individually went through the remainder in Wayback Machine looking for trouble.
My criteria, since I am on a budget on $$$ and time, is the following -
Majestic
TF > 8
Ahrefs
RefDom > 10
RefDom < 100
Backlinks have no Russian, Japanese, or Chinese text
Waybackmachine
No PBN stuff or 301s to unrelated stuff
Sorting through this time took me quite a few hours because I want to learn. I think I'll be able to speed this up later but, for now, everything is being done manually.
Well, it turns out my list of around 15,000ish turned in to eleven domain this morning. I purchased them on Namecheap. They aren't the prettiest batch in terms of tld or brandability, but they look pretty in the metrics. My goal is to try to sell them quick, recoup my expenses, and move on.
They look like this, which I don't think is too shabby.
There is that one weirdo 243 RD, but... it doesn't LOOK spammy at all too me. Quite clean, unless I'm mistaken.
Questions :
- Is sedo the best place to sell expired domains intended for PBN or Niche sites?
- If not sedo, who do I sell them to? If here, I've a long way to go since I am not even close to JVIP, nor in a rush to get there. I'm also not willing to open a 500$ marketplace advert without more experience.
- How much would you say these domains are worth, bearing in mind there is 2-.is, 2-co.uk, 2-.org, 3-.com, 1-.tv, 1-.vote
- Could someone have a look at the domains themselves and evaluate this first batch? I'd like to know if I'm on the right track, but Senpai Nargil doesn't post lists, so I'm following suit to keep mine clean. Please inbox me if so.
- Would anyone be interested in seeing my reject pile of domains with Majestic data? I can post it on a site for a possible Adsense stream to help cover expenses or set up a mailing list for daily reject posts. If neither are a good idea, I still would give them out in any way suggested. (Just posting them here will end up sullying them, I think. Correct me if I'm wrong.)
I know the adage that they are worth what they sell for, but I'm just looking for a ballpark figure so I know if I am getting hosed too hard. A little hosing I can handle.
Have a great day, guys! Health, wealth, and snacks!
