Tool to analyze domains that received traffic and expired

[mye-corporation]

Are there any tools that can analyze expire domains and tell if they were actually receiving traffic in the past?.

If not, which is the best site/tool to watch for about to expire domains only?.

 

[nielsencl]

Alexa.com can give you some information, but it is not very accurate. It will just give you an idea of what the traffic may have been. Try it with some of your sites where you can check the traffic and you will see how much you can trust it.

It's better to look at the current backlinks to the domain for this kind of information, and even then since the old site is gone, any traffic it is getting may go away because the old site is gone.

Archive.org can let you see what the old site looked like and you can see if it was a good site or not. For the most part, the history will not affect what happens to the domain once it expires, is dropped, and then registered again. This is my opinoin anyway.

 

[mye-corporation]

I recently found out about the site dropday.com, they seem to have what I'm looking for, sites that are about to expire and they have stats for them.

However, some of them have crazy numbers and I don't get why they are parked. Besides, the Traffic per day that dropday says they have is highly innacurate when you type the domain in compete.com and it has absolutely no data.

Is it worth the time looking through these lists trying to get a dropped domain that was somehow established?

 

[nielsencl]

Maybe. The problem with finding out how much traffic someone else's domain is that you can't know that directly. Only the domain owner or webmaster have the exact information. Sites like Alexa and Compete use other methods that may or may not be close, but they will not be exact.

I would pay attention to any backlinks the domain has and the exact search query numbers for the keywords in the domain. I think those are the most meaningful.

 

[mye-corporation]

Maybe. The problem with finding out how much traffic someone else's domain is that you can't know that directly. Only the domain owner or webmaster have the exact information. Sites like Alexa and Compete use other methods that may or may not be close, but they will not be exact.

I would pay attention to any backlinks the domain has and the exact search query numbers for the keywords in the domain. I think those are the most meaningful.

Nice tips. What free backlink checker do you recommend?.

 

[nielsencl]

Yahoo - https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites

Enter in the URL in the top search and it will list how many pages they know about and the backlinks, both on and off-site.