Expired Domains and Google
When coming up with the concept for this site I decided that I would look through some deleted domains to see if there were any good ones that had the word “money” within them. To my surprise if found bigmoneytips.com and quickly jumped on it.
Now I have heard about Google sandboxing expired domains for a couple of months till they add them to the index, but this thought never occurred to me until a couple of days ago when I found that this site is still not in the index.
Some people might not see this as anything special as a lot of sites take weeks to enter Google’s index, but since I have a couple of sites with good PR I can usually get Google to add my sites within a day. The good thing though is that I know the domain isn’t banned since GoogleBot is spidering the site still. Now I need to find a way to get Google to add the site to the index sooner.
Another good thing coming out of this bad situation is that it lets me focus on developing traffic through means besides search engines. This means providing the quality content that will get me linked on other sites (which has already been happening). A challenge? Indeed, but that makes it much more fun.
So the lesson here is only use expired domains if the domain is really great. Otherwise you might be better off starting from scratch.
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4 opinions for Expired Domains and Google
JC
Aug 27, 2004 at 4:21 pm
Or you could just blow the $10-15 and register a second domain name for it so google gets it in there immediately. or do a subdomain — bigmoney.9rules.com maybe? :-)
Hayo
Aug 27, 2004 at 5:39 pm
a/ You seem to have a not well formed link. Oh, and JC has a point. Just register a second domain :-)
Scrivs
Aug 29, 2004 at 11:10 pm
I could go with another domain, but this one will work out well. I have the patience to wait for Google. I sent them an email and hopefully they at least read it and check the site out.
Everything will work out fine. Just means the people who are in the betting might be a little misread. However, I know the numbers that this site is producing ;-)
Scrivs
Sep 10, 2004 at 2:18 pm
Well I am impressed. I actually got a human response from Google telling me the site is not banned and that it fits in perfectly with their guidelines.
I think it just has been sandboxed due to it being an expired domain.
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