How Reliable is Traffic in GoDaddy Auctions?

[hopkism]

I am considering nabbing some junk domain names in the bargain bin and closeouts that have some decent traffic to them but I do not understand the metric for Godaddy Auction traffic.

What does this mean? Is this monthly traffic? Who accounts for it? Is it accurate? Will it even last after the domains are transferred?

 

[4pm]

traffic shown is monthly figures.
they only publish traffic on domains that parked with Godaddy. so its measured not guessed

expired/closeout domains traffic is (almost always) real and you've got all chances to have it coming after you puchase the name for at least some time (or forever if its typein ). those names are actually dropped so nobody cares to inflate it intentionally and they are sold by Godaddy not by the owner.

traffic for bargain bin and other options where domains are being sold by owners can be fake - you park domain with Godaddy, put it up for sale, buy and send some traffic to it... profit... after the domain is sold you stop sending traffic. that happened to me a couple of times

imho
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[Name Trader]

It might be all bot traffic, no real visitors.

 

[4pm]

i think they filter bot traffic out, thats no difficult unless the bot is simulating real browser (js, cookies etc) which is rare. yet that can be the case for some particular domain but not for many.

...and Godaddy uses Google feed and you can see "domain valuation" column in the auction list - these two facts make me believe they actually use Google stats (that come with the feed) for both traffic and valuation (which comes from ads revenues) - that would be quite natural as the latter is a simple function of the former. If so... Google is good at filtering bots

again there IS a probability your target domain shows "artificial" traffic numbers but its next to zero.. well, when this 1 out of 10000 is yours that gonna really hurt

 

[socialpro]

Here are some tips from my experience with Godaddy Auctions:

1. If you're serious about finding a good domain with traffic, stay away from bargain bin and closeouts.

2. Stick with the expiring domain auctions. That's where you'l find the real "bargains"

3. The traffic numbers are pretty accurate. Some domains will be bring you monthly what Godaddy lists in the auction, others will bring much higher traffic than listed.

4. The traffic I have found does include bot traffic. The traffic estimations include all type of traffic. So you need to take this into account when bidding.

5. There are many metrics you need to look into before deciding which domain will be the best to bid on. One hint: check out how many bidders a particular domain has - that's a big clue on the value of a domain that's up for auction. But that still doesn't mean it's the right domain for you to pursue. There are many other methods we use to determine whether a domain is worth pursuing.

Finally, I can tell you we've nabbed some great domains with traffic from Godaddy auctions, and some not so great. Some of these domains began sending us Adsense clicks just days after we developed the domains.

We recently won a domain at auction with a pagerank of 4 and some .edu inbound links.

We develop the domains into websites and mirror as closely as possible the content that used to be on the domain.

 

[reachstars]

Here are some tips from my experience with Godaddy Auctions:

1. If you're serious about finding a good domain with traffic, stay away from bargain bin and closeouts.

2. Stick with the expiring domain auctions. That's where you'l find the real "bargains"

3. The traffic numbers are pretty accurate. Some domains will be bring you monthly what Godaddy lists in the auction, others will bring much higher traffic than listed.

4. The traffic I have found does include bot traffic. The traffic estimations include all type of traffic. So you need to take this into account when bidding.

5. There are many metrics you need to look into before deciding which domain will be the best to bid on. One hint: check out how many bidders a particular domain has - that's a big clue on the value of a domain that's up for auction. But that still doesn't mean it's the right domain for you to pursue. There are many other methods we use to determine whether a domain is worth pursuing.

Finally, I can tell you we've nabbed some great domains with traffic from Godaddy auctions, and some not so great. Some of these domains began sending us Adsense clicks just days after we developed the domains.

We recently won a domain at auction with a pagerank of 4 and some .edu inbound links.

We develop the domains into websites and mirror as closely as possible the content that used to be on the domain.

Wow, learn something new every day. So how would you know what content used to be on the site? I've always been curious to know how my domains were used before.

 

[Blake]

Wow, learn something new every day. So how would you know what content used to be on the site? I've always been curious to know how my domains were used before.

Check out https://archive.org/

 

[reachstars]

Thanks so much for sharing. Wow, looking through the old sites feels like knowing who used to live in my home.