Parking de-indexed expired domains

[Kasti]

Hi guys!

Do you think it's a good idea to list on bodis (or similar services) promising expired domains which are not indexed anymore?

I guess it all comes down to how easy it is to make it re-indexed by google. But I don't have enough experience on that so I'll ask you the following questions:

1-How long will Google generally take to re-index an expired domain?

2-Does it matter if Google's crawler sees your domain is in a parking page with no actual content? Will Google still reindex old domain's stuff or is it necessary to develop that doman with some content before?

3-Will Google Search Console or Webmaster tools speed up this process in a relevant way?

 

[mr-x]

I kinda think the same... if a high backlinked domain loses its most important backlinks, which got de-indexed, I guess Google won't re-index them unless that domain gets that type of content back.

But what about a good high traffic domain with not a good backlink profile?

In my experience, a domain with type-in traffic developed with relevant content will receive 100x as much traffic from search.

Yeah it is kinda weird, but if that domain actually had traffic besides a bad backlink profile (which I don't know how much rare it is, but it might happen...), even if most of its backlinks are down it should work on its own right? I might be too idealistic in this last case though...

Yeah it seems that Google made it much harder on this aspect. But there is still a difference between a new regged domain and an expired one, which are the old backlinks, which are not really effective once they are de-indexed, but they might be restored if, for example, you decide to develop an expired domain with similar content to previous one.

Not sure I understood you here. You mean domains which were parked with zero-click ads? If that's the case no, I meant genuine domains which had traffic but were not renewed and, as consequence, they got simply de-indexed but not penalized.

 

[mr-x]

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[mr-x]

Many websites still use domain names with dashes. Virtually ALL C.M.S. platforms publish post U.R.L.'s with dashes. Why? Angels.

We were talking about domain names, not website paths.

 

[redemo]

We were talking about domain names, not website paths.

Correct. Search algorithms compute dashes in domain names in the same way as they do in file names. Dashes separate words in both examples, making it easier for the algorithm to 'understand' what the content is about. This is why keywords and dashes in domain names and file names are as algorithmically relevant as they were 20 years ago. Branding is another matter. Many websites still use dashes in domain name, folder name, image name and page/file name. Do you want some examples?

 

[redemo]

Parking de-listed domains probably won't be profitable.

You can rehab a de-listed domain but it takes time. You just have to use it legitimately, find good back links, etc.

You can also setup a robots.txt to block all bots, then redirect type-in traffic to another domain with a good reputation.

Check all indexed pages and re-create them straight away. Could be time consuming though you'd be able to gather traffic from much-linked pages.

 

[lock]

1-How long will Google generally take to re-index an expired domain?
A day or two.

2-Does it matter if Google's crawler sees your domain is in a parking page with no actual content? Will Google still reindex old domain's stuff or is it necessary to develop that doman with some content before?
If no content it will likely not be indexed. Newest page is the update.

3-Will Google Search Console or Webmaster tools speed up this process in a relevant way?
No as all you need to do is change pages. It may help to recover from other problems repairing negative issues.