I mentioned in a recent post that i am now using aged domains for my new niche websites so I’d like to give you more information on why I am doing that and how to find suitable aged domains to buy.
Advantages of Aged Domains
- Google already knows about the domain
- Yahoo already knows about the domain
- Search engines give some advantages to aged domains
- You may avoid the Google sandbox
My experiences
I started using aged domains a few months ago and so far it has proved a good move. New sites using aged domains have been indexed faster and started to receive visitors much faster too. Yahoo has been sending me visitors for most of the sites almost instantly as opposed to months for a newly registered domain.There are one or 2 exceptions where Yahoo is completely ignoring the sites. I have no idea why? So far I’ve avoided the Google sandbox but I can’t say definitely if this is coincidence or aged domains really do help you avoid it. For the $5 or $10 dollars n aged domain can be purchased for it really is worth it. Continue reading ‘How To Buy Aged Domain Names’
If you’re trying to rank for a keyword it’s really useful to know your rank without wading though all the SERPs. Recently Google blocked a lot of the online tools but I’ve found a couple that are still working.
has been updated to work now. If you have the old version update and it will work. Only checks the first 200 positions
The reason this tool is a stand-alone application is that Google has denied SERP’s from other servers. When downloaded, you don’t have to use Google API and can get exact results. 
Stand alone tool (windows only) from Wintzell.net that checks the top 1000
It’s a month since I set up my keyword sniping experiment so here’s a report on the progress so far.
Total visitors 659
Google 347 MSN 96 Live 33 Referring sites 122 Direct Traffic 27
Keyword A position in Google After 1 week 125 After 1 month 97
Keyword B position in Google After 1 week 106 After 1 month 68
keyword B is a seasonally affected keyword that has few visitors in the summer. The trend starts to increase in August so I expect that to have an influence on the no of visitors. Probably not the best keyword to use for my experiment!
So my number of visitors is a little disappointing but probably expected as I am not optimising for long-tailed keywords with few visitors but trying to eventually get more visitors by targeting harder keywords. My positions are coming down and I still have directories and article sites yet to approve my submissions. I’ll leave it for a while then try to submit some more articles.
Keyword sniping is a phrase coined by Courtney Tuttle to target keywords by making the whole site optimised for 1 or 2 keywords. If you haven’t seen Court’s post on this head over to Introduction to Keyword Sniping. Most sites will optimise a page for a keyword, by optimising the whole site you can, in theory rank well for much more competitive keywords. I was very impressed with this method which is very clearly explained by Court so I’ve set up a couple of sites to see how it goes. I’ve also tried to keep the cost down as much as possible by using free software (WordPress and WordBay) and submission services when possible.
I won’t explain the whole method here, Court does a very good job of that, instead I’ll document what I have done to test this method and report on my results. Continue reading ‘Experiment in Keyword Sniping’
Table of contents for Keyword Sniping Experiment
- Experiment in Keyword Sniping
Finding a link exchange program that works and doesn’t give you lots of spammy links proved a challenge! I’ve tried many different ones and each one had some problems. Difficult code to install, irrelevant links (one gave me links to porn sites!)but I seem to have found one that works well and gives you relevant links.
Continue reading ‘How To:Exchange Links with Relevant Sites’
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