UPDATED GUIDE – The Best Way to Find Cheap Expired Domains
I wrote a guide and did a couple of videos about 6 months ago so I thought it was time to do an updated version of how I find expired domains for my PBN. I have found much more efficient and effective ways to go about finding expired domains to register. It is still a relatively similar process to the last version but I have been getting much higher quality domains in a shorter amount of time.
You will see in the video that I pretend that I am starting a new money site in the car niche and I need to find some car related expired domains. I was able to find 13 highly relevant and strong expired domains in the car niche that I would have been able to register and create my own PBN in no time at all. This really is the best way to find expired domains.
Let’s not waste any time and get right down to it! The main part of this guide will be the videos as it is much easier to explain the process through a video.
Tools Needed
- Xenu
- Bulk Domain Availability Checker
- Excel or any spreadsheet program
- Notepad
- Majestic
- MozBar
- Ubersuggest
- Optional – Bulk Moz PA/DA checker
- Ninja SEO Tools
These are the tools that I use to find all of my expired domains. The optional one – Bulk Moz PA/DA checker is to be used by the people that do not have Majestic. If you wanted to you could use both together but I personally just use Majestic.
Video Guide
Conclusion
I hope that you all found the video helpful and that you will be able to put some of the information to use for your own good. I am not the best making videos so please bare with me as I try and improve. I really think the process that I taught is very effective and it will find you good expired domains in whatever niche that you want.
If you have any questions at all about the process or how to do anything please let me know in the comments below, thank you!
Comments
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Great tutorial there mate. I use a similar process but I’ve been using Scrapebox but I found it useless in finding relevant domains. I’d like to see a video on how you spam check your domains as you suggested. Let me know when or if you do. Cheers
What’s going on Tim,
I am glad that you liked the video and I am sure I will do a spam checking video here in the near future.
-Josh
Josh .. this is great stuff. I’ve already shared it with a few of my colleagues that are niche-specific. I also have a couple of directory websites in development that are very niche specific and I’ve already begun this process on trying to find a bulk of 12 for each site to carry forward. Looking forward to more videos …
Hi Rich,
Good to hear that you found the video useful! I am sure I will be out with more videos here in the near future. Thanks for commenting
-Josh
Hey Josh,
very nice tutorial.
At the end of the video you mention even more advanced strategy and that you “might” share. Please, do : )
glad your doing the xenu thing Josh, i tried it and failed, but i love to try whats on your video now..
i still have un-used pbn, i have the domains registered but did not buy hosting for it yet or develop it into a pbn..
im trying another method its still sound and look pbn but more of a real pbn .. its just that its not that relevant but has the potential of getting more eyeballs to click on each post…
i find the old pbn concept as a link without no one clicking into it….i was thinking google might find it weird to have lots of link that nobody is clicking it going to money site..
im not against nor saying pbn is dead, im just trying to explore a different concept of pbn,, hopefully it will work so i can maybe someday share it to you and others…
Great video. I used this process with Scrapebox but I’m having trouble finding new expired domains these days…whereas 6months/year ago I was always able to find some good ones. Is there some giant reaper machine out there that someone coded that is sucking up all the domains??
Oh and alternatively in your search queries couldn’t you use “car clubs” + inurl:links in order to remove one step from your process?
Hello Hayley,
Yes there are a lot of people out there with custom built software scraping the internet and finding expired domains at a very quick rate. What that means for us is that we have to become creative and out think what everyone else is doing. There is still plenty of opportunity to find good expired domains, just takes more time now!
But, yes you could use the inurl:links but I have alwasy done it the other way and it works fine for mo. I also get some weird results sometimes doing that as well.
-Josh
Great video, but you didn’t mentioned after booking the private blog network domains, how to manage the content for these PBNs and put your money website links on it.
Thank you, I am glad you liked the video!
I didn’t talk about managing the content or how to link out to your money sites because there is way too much info to cover. Also, this video was supposed to explain how to FIND domains, not set them up.
I am thinking about doing a huge PBN guide in the future but I am still debating.
-Josh
Hi Josh,
Great content you have there. Keep it up.
I like to know if the DA PA results for Ninjaseotools and Majestic are the same?
Do you wanna shed little light on it.
Thanks.
Hey Kyle,
What do you mean the same? Majestic does not show DA/PA, only trust flow and citation flow. I personally do not use ninjaseotools for the DA/PA
-Josh
Hi Josh,
My bad, I got them mixed up.
Can you tell what tool you use for DA PA, please?
Also is TF CF more important than DA PA?
Thanks
No worries, DA/PA can be found using moz open site explorer and TF/CF is found using Majestic.
I mainly use TF/CF when filtering domains and I think the trust flow of a domain is the most important metric for determining a good domain vs a bad domain. Hope this clears it up
-Josh
Josh, I really appreciate your work and enjoyed this video. I found this when I was looking to watch one of your earlier videos again. This one is better thanks.
How about a video of what you do after you have the sites in your PBN? I am just learning and wonder about anchor text and links coming from the PBN to the money site.
If you don’t have a video planned for this, can you suggest where to turn to learn more?
Thanks,
Vince
Hey just a quick question. Do all the PBN’s have to be pre-indexed by google in order for them to work efficiently. I’ve gotten quite a few good pbn’s from using your method, not none of them were indexed by google previously. Is this a good or bad sign. Should i still register them or find new ones that are already indexed by google.
Thanks
Great Video By The Way 10/10
Thanks 🙂
Hi Simeon,
All of the domains I find are not currently indexed when I find them. I just set them up and they become indexed within a week or two
Hey
I have another question. Does the anchor text profile of the PBN affect our money site. So lets say if the domain called http://www.cheap-pills.co.uk
And the anchor text profile was like this for example:
80%: pills
15%:cheap
5%:www.cheap-pills.co.uk
Would this kind of PBN hurt the rankings for my money site. I know google says not to use exact keywords or to keyword stuff when back-linking.
I’m asking this because with the PBN’s i have found using your method have these types of anchor profiles.
So i was wondering should i register them or not, based on this factor.
Hi,
The only thing that matters for PBN anchor text is that it is clean/natural. If it is spammy then don’t register it. If the anchor texts are natural and make sense, then it is fine to register!
Josh
Hey Josh, I got 2 questions.
1. Why don’t you use Scrapebox to scrape your “links” targets and export to Excel and filter them down from there?
2. Do you think Google will give credit to the niche of the expired domains?
Hey Stanley,
1. I haven’t ever sued scrapebox and I don’t have any experience with using it. I know it can be powerful if used correctly but I just haven’t seen the need for it since I have found good domains using other methods.
2. I think Google will give some credit. We will never know for sure but that is my hunch
Josh
Hi Josh
Excellent video and great teaching skills, perfectly explained and its a skill very few online marketers have, keep teaching.
great work, going to use this process now.
Patric
Hey Patric,
Thank you!
Josh
Mate, google doesnt give a rats if a baclink is related to your niche or not. This is a myth. Im ranking many #1 ranked sites with unrelated pbn niche sites. Also, i dont get why you go though this process when you can do this in 2min.
Go to expireddomains.net, signup for free and put in your search terms. You get all the expired domains you will ever need!
I think that Google does care but, I agree that you can rank without them being related. And I like using my method because I am able to find the niche relevant sites
Thanks for the comment
Excellent, Awesome Awesome Just Awesome 😀 Today i have found a awesome domain which got dofollow backlinks from huffingtonpost, BBC, CNN and more top authority sites with your mentioned methods… Thanks Josh.
Sweeeet 🙂
Excellent, i was struggling from many, finally your guide helped me save a lot of money.
thanks dude
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