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Fun With Expired Domain Names – Ranking Tops For Poker Terms

About 3 months ago I found a domain that was unregistered but showed over 9,000 backlinks in Yahoo and MSN. The domain was qtw24.com. I noticed that 90% of the links were no follow comment spam but I thought it was a oppourtunity to test a few things that I could not pass up.

I registered the domain and 301 redirected it to forums.shoemoney.com. I pretty much forgot about it until a friend told me that he saw it was ranking really well for some poker terms. I started going through the logs and looking for search terms.

Low and behold. These rankings are at the time of post. I do not expect them to last.

The domain forums.shoemoney.com is a pr6 (on first update)

The domain forums.shoemoney.com ranks #3 for texas holdem on MSN

The domain forums.shoemoney.com ranks #18 on Yahoo for Texas Holdem

The domain forums.shoemoney.com ranks #20 on Yahoo! for Online Poker

And many other terms. You get the point.

As you can see my forums contain absolutly no onpage text containing any of these keywords.

A interesting thing is that Google gives this site no love (keyword wise)



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  1. Scott

    Hey Shoe,
    I am interested to see if and when these rankings started to slide and if you saw any long term negative effects on the shoemoney forums site because of the redirect?

    Keep up the good work! :)

  2. Ken Savage

    damn guess not. and to think I’ve been waiting my my warm terminal since posting the above comment for an answer. shhesshhh

  3. Mark

    Shoemoney,

    I’m new to the whole “blogging” thing. As a novice in this field, It’s nice to see you sharing your information / tricks with the rest of us.

    Regards,
    Mark

  4. ShoeMoney

    Spider the internet for broken links… whois on the domain. If its not taken then do link analysis with msn and yahoo (google does not keep info for deleted domains)

    That is the basic principal.

  5. Ken Savage

    Anything you’d like to share or make available?

  6. garrett

    i thought if a domain expired, the links were pretty much worthless. I guess not though. I found an expired domain with about 3000 links, and then tried a 301. It didn;’t work for me. Maybe i didnt do it long enough

  7. Chris

    Shoe, can give me a lesson on hopw one would search unregisterd domains manually ? I have no inhouse system =(

  8. Tracy

    Dude, I would shut that down so quick her head would spin. Shoemoney – Karaoke not a good mix. 8)

  9. Jason Sparks

    Thanks man!

  10. Mike Seiler

    The truth finally comes out… he made his fortune as a rock star!

  11. samskpunk

    A interesting thing is that Google gives this site no love (keyword wise)

    becasue of the quality of link? Google show no link for the name

  12. ShoeMoney

    yes just a 301 wildcard

  13. Jason Sparks

    hey shoe, do you just slap up a default 301 for all incoming requests and send them all to the same place? Or do you have some smarts in the system to send them to distinct locations?

    Thanks,
    Jason

  14. GeorgeB

    Personally, I’d sue to have that taken down :)

  15. earl

    ShoeMoney Is this you? I about busted a gut lauging. I found it on your sisters photogallery/

  16. ShoeMoney

    We have a in house system we use.

  17. roger

    Did you just fall off the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down? These should not rank with NO FOLLOW tags.

  18. Randy

    I had noticed some of those rankings a while back for the poker terms in Yahoo, and was wondering how you’d managed to rank for those words. (Wondered about why, too, since you didn’t have any poker content or anything like that.)

  19. Chris Packer

    After all the fanfare after nofollow was released I thought MSN and Yahoo! were supposed to be supporting it. I guess this means nofollow only applies to Google?

  20. Ken Savage

    Shoe, what website or service do you use to look for expiring or recent expired domains?

  21. blue

    wow I would give my left nut for rankings like that for those terms.

  22. RaymondE

    That is increadible…. Thank you for sharing your results dude

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