Comments on: Buying a domain name – Caveat Emptor http://www.michaelwall.co.uk/seo/buying-a-domain-name-caveat-emptor/ Internet Marketing, SEO, Web Design and Web development Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:02:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: sudha http://www.michaelwall.co.uk/seo/buying-a-domain-name-caveat-emptor/comment-page-1/#comment-3976 sudha Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:03:36 +0000 http://www.michaelwall.co.uk/?p=83#comment-3976 Many seo professionals will say that it is useless to buy expired domains but that’s not entirely true. For a Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) point of view, the domain will lose its authority once it is dropped. That is why it is better to transfer ownership before a domain get dropped if you still want it to rank for its search terms afterwards. In the case of expired domains, what I’ve seen is that you will still get traffic from referring sites where your backlinks are placed and some organic search as well if you keep the same theme. Many seo professionals will say that it is useless to buy expired domains but that’s not entirely true. For a Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) point of view, the domain will lose its authority once it is dropped. That is why it is better to transfer ownership before a domain get dropped if you still want it to rank for its search terms afterwards. In the case of expired domains, what I’ve seen is that you will still get traffic from referring sites where your backlinks are placed and some organic search as well if you keep the same theme.

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