So I bought an expired domain and...

SkyrocketSEO

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I bought an expired domain 10 days ago, it had a good backlink profile (nothing fancy, no black hat). Basically the site was ranking for 2 mortgage KWs so that's why I bought a domain, wasn't expecting any visitors.
Finally GoDaddy transferred it (domain) to me today so I've set the WP and installed Jetpack. The site just have a logo and a welcome page, nothing else. Five minutes later I clicked to see if there are any visitors and noticed 12 Uvs in just 5 minutes on an empty domain.
People are coming from Google, Linkedin, some other sites...I guess this site is not going to PBN Might visit Flippa in a couple of months if I get some more steady traffic there

 

sashablack

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sounds good, goodluck

 

Toz

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Hurry and build that site up!

 

antichrist

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Google died a long time ago, along with SEO. Those are just fake visitors...

 

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I guess so, probably some Chinese bot sending that traffic

 

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JordanT3Leads

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Would you be interested in selling it?

 

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darrinm

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Get the site up, connect analytics and find out! Good luck.

 

yuuzokun

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12 visitors yes maybe more but after instaling GA on your site you'll see if they are real ones or just bots, anyway just build a site and see maybe it will make you money on flippa

 

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giovanivalentin

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That is awesome you have luck.Just build and get some revenue from it.

 

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12 visitors yes maybe more but after instaling GA on your site you'll see if they are real ones or just bots

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Of course no bots. This was a domain for a huge US mortgage company, but they changed their name and dropped a domain. I am filling the site with high quality content atm, and hopefully Google will keep me No.1 for the keywords I already rank for. No BH SEo done whatsoever

P.S. had around 150 UVs yesterday

 

prab1996

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SkyrocketSEO said:

Of course no bots. This was a domain for a huge US mortgage company, but they changed their name and dropped a domain. I am filling the site with high quality content atm, and hopefully Google will keep me No.1 for the keywords I already rank for. No BH SEo done whatsoever

P.S. had around 150 UVs yesterday

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do not add new content , first get all old content back (but play it safe )

pm me some info, have a mortgage client and she may be interested in this site.

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zeetee

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love it.. are they organic or just reference visitors from bookmarks or social media?

 

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do not add new content , first get all old content back (but play it safe )

pm me some info, have a mortgage client and she may be interested in this site.

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I can't upload old content (I mean I can, but I don't want) because the old content is the company overview and their services, I can't post that

love it.. are they organic or just reference visitors from bookmarks or social media?

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50-50
Site ranks for 2-3 mortgage keywords on the page one (spots 1 and 2). Not a high volume KWs but enough to get between 100 and 200 UVs a day. Someone even posted a comment (I deleted it) asking how they can get a mortgage loan with us

 

Nut-Nights

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old man you will surely make good money with this domain , dont sell it.

 

SkyrocketSEO

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old man you will surely make good money with this domain , dont sell it.

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Well, I would sell it right away if I get a good offer, because I have too many sites too handle and will probably purchase more soon

 

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imdavid

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Kinda sick! Not sure if those are bots tho

 

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Not sure if those are bots tho

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No bots, real people we are ranking for a keyword that have around 2K exact searches/month on the spot No.1 and a couple of similar KWs as well. People also come from other sites where there are links pointing to my site.
It was a domain of the company, the name of the company contains words "home" and "mortgage" and that's why I bought this domain cause I knew it will be easier to rank for similar keywords since the site is already ranked for something in this niche.

 

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It will be really interesting to see how you build up this website. If at all you are!