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posted in: LED Digest 2221: Simplest is Hardest

From: Jim White
Subject: Best Use of Domains Trashed by the Search Engines?
Date: Wednesday August 9, 2006

A few years ago I thought the way to search engine success was by building a network of directory sites. Well, it did work for a while before the search engines decided to trash them all. Ok. It was deserved. I've been punished.

I had the domains on auto-renew so they're still hanging around but this month I'll send them off to their land-of-the-lost and let them expire. I think. Across the board they get hundreds of robot visits every month but no search engine referrals. There's lots of crawling going on but no eyeballs.

Is there anything whitehat I can do with these domains that would benefit from the constant robot visits or is it best to just let them bite the dust? I'm thinking any new site I start from scratch, once I get a few legitimate links I'd be crawled just as effectively in no time. So is there any advantage in holding onto these "aged" domains in order to develop some of them at a later time for more legitimate purposes?


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