Guide for domain traders and webmasters about how to catch expired domain names from TDNAM godaddy aftermarket, how to pick domains, what are they worth to invest in auction and how to monetize their pagerank or traffic.

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There are tons of expiring domains every day. Some are expired domains of developed sites and has
traffic, backlinks and pagerank. Ok, pagerank alone doesn't have value for Google but still there are tons
of people buying backlinks valuing them from pagerank :) There are 3 categories of drops catching 1.
expired domains to get flipped - these domains might have just some value when sold to others. Money
invested might not get back if You don't get buyer. 2. expired domains with traffic - domains that has traffic
from backlinks -> their traffic decrease by time, but You can get some profit by parking them or develop
MFA site or make new serious project. 3. expired domains with pagerank - these domains has pagerank
from DOFOLLOW backlinks. There are marketplaces where You can sell backlinks. Google doesn't null
pagerank if You create new similar content as backlinks that have generated pagerank usually stays as
they are. Catching domains for flipping doesn't make much profit and You can't be sure if there would be
any. I suggest You to buy domains with pagerank or traffic, as you can count how much minimal profit You
can get and You know if it's enough to pay domain cost and make $ above cost. Where to get good
domain names? Plenty of main domain registrars have aftermarket for such domains. You can also buy
domains that have expired for regfee only but they barely have some value. I mostly use Godaddy.com
aftermarket as there are domains with hundreds of visitors/day or PR3-PR5 easy to get won in auction.
Really it's worth to buy domains in auction as they are sold before they are trully marked as expired so
You keep site sequeantly running and keep Pagerank. But how to find really good names? I use these two
tools as they are probably best: http://www.freshdrop.net - huge list of expiring domains at
Godaddy.com where You can set filters and line-up on different criteria (traffic, overture, etc.). The also
show if it suppose to be real pagerank or spoofed (fake). Another cool tool is:
http://www.domainyank.com/listing.php -> You can line-up by alexa rank or pagerank. These domains
are picked from all in godaddy listing and there are some awesome domains with high PR. Remember,
PR3-PR5 domains are mostly spoofed by redirect so check backlinks Any domain with PR3-5 should be
listed here (if this tool doesn't show any result or result is different domain then searched, it means PR is
probably spoofed): http://www.google.com -> info:domain.com Should have from 5-100 dofollow links in
this search (this tool doesn't work perfectly and number of search results doesn't show all dofollow links
indexed). PR2-PR3 should have about 5-20 results, PR4-PR5 should have atleast 20-50.
http://www.google.com -> link:domain.com What about traffic? Godaddy shows estimated monthly
traffic and You also have alexa rank to know if it's true and longterm traffic. Ok. I've picked domains,
domains have bids, what now? What domains are worth to invest? Traffic domains: If You got
traffic (by godaddy estimates) 100 UIPs / day, then You can 1. Park domain -> You will lose almost all
search engine traffic (might be up to 50% of annual traffic). But You have high CTR (up to 20-30% if You
pick right keywords matching previous domain content). 2. Build small blog or site with few content and
adsense or adbrite ads and wait for clicks. To estimate maximum BID that can bring atleast invested
money + some profit You need to count. You got domain about religion, average religion PPC at
Parked.com is 50-60 cents, and You got 500UIPs stimated by godaddy. Lest say, You lose 30% of traffic
from search engines so You have 350UIPs. 350 UIPs / 30 days = 12 UIPs/day. If You got 5-20% CTR on
average You've got 0,6-2,4 clicks / day and that is 0,3-1,2$ a day. Each month You got 10-20% decrease
in traffic. So first month You got 350UIPs, next is lets say 300, 270, 230 etc..... So in first 12 months,
average traffic is around 50% of first month traffic. So that's maybe 170UIPs on average, let's say minimal
5% CTR and 0,5$ PPC = 4-5$ a month = 50-60$ a year. That is absolute minimum but if You want to be
sure, don't spend more then 40$ on such domain. It's just safe path as You probably have CTR around
10%. Various domains works better with various parking companies -> this si some small comparison:

2. http://www.webmasterinter.net/2008/09/parked-sedo-namedrive-or-fabulous Domains with pagerank:
You can sell backlinks at backlinks marketplaces. I suggest you to use these two mayor marketplaces as
You can sell tons of links there: Backlinks.com Text-link-ads.com Text-link-ads.com (TLA) have tons
of advertisers but You only earn about 35-40% of monthly price. But You sell enough backlinks with price
that would be added by TLA stuff. Backlinks.com got 50% commission and enough advertisers to sell
maybe 5-6 links. Backlinks got static earnings for each PR, prices are low but You sell enough links: (PR5
and more are worthless to sell at Backlinks) PageRank (PR) 1 homepage $.50 , subpage $.50
PageRank (PR) 2 homepage $1 , subpage $1 PageRank (PR) 3 homepage $2 , subpage $1.50
PageRank (PR) 4 homepage $3 , subpage $2 PageRank (PR) 5 homepage $4.50 , subpage $3.50
PageRank (PR) 6 homepage $12.50 , subpage $10 PageRank (PR) 7 homepage $30 , subpage $25
PageRank (PR) 8 homepage $75 , subpage $50 So with PR3 domain, and You sell 4 ads at TLA (15$
price and about 6$ commission) and 6 Backlinks ads, with 2$ for homepage, You'll have 24$+12$ = 36$
monthly. But as we all know, google will update pagerank in 2-3 months, so then You'll probably have
PR2. PR2 will earn You about half of that, so You've got 18$/month for next 3 months. And after another
update You're gonna have PR1 for maybe 6 months So Your estimated earning might be about 36$*3
months + 18$*3 months + 9$*6 months = 216$. If You buy PR3 domain for 60$ then it bring You
about 150$ profit in year, and all the work is to find such domain and set blog or very simple site
from template and put TLA and backlinks code there. It's worth a try :) Enjoy Your nice and easy
earnings :)