Where To Find Domains
Knowing what to look for in domains is only part of the game, next you need to know where to find the domains.
Before we cover that, you need to understand the types of domains to find.
Expired VS Expiring Domains
Expired Domain – …
Where To Find Domains
Knowing what to look for in domains is only part of the game, next you need to know where to find the domains.
Before we cover that, you need to understand the types of domains to find.
Expired VS Expiring Domains
Expired Domain – A domain that fully dropped and is available to register from any registrar at standard domain registration costs. These tend to be weaker and take months to age before being worth linking.
Expiring Domain – A domain that reached its expiration date but was held onto by the registrar for auctioning / selling. These domains retain their age i.e. if they previous owner registered it 5 years ago, it remains a domain registered for 5 years.
My advice today is to purchase expiring domains only, unless you have a strategy for easily finding expired domains and purchasing them cheap.
The downsides of expired domains are:
They tend to be weaker (i.e. there’s a reason it’s expired and nobody else has attempted to purchase it)
They need aged – our testing showed, to get the power from these domains, you’ll need to setup a site and wait at least two months before adding links to get the full power from them
For this reason, I recommend exclusively purchasing domains from auctions or a broker that utilises auctions.
Option 1 – Finding a Broker
Here are some brokers you can buy from one at a time or in bulk.
Please note that I have not used all of these brokers, but I have at least heard good things from others about all of them.
TBSolutions
PureQualityDomains
SERPChampion
Option 2 – Using Auction Websites
Before scraping was popular, most people would buy domains from auctions. These are expiring domains, they keep their age because the registrar is selling it off after they owner failed to renew it.
You can usually find more powerful domains on auctions than from scraping because the dropped (expired) ones are picked up fast by your competition – if not already bought in the auction stages. The downside to auctions is that you pay extra to get first pick.
Some auction sites you can look at are:
NameJet – Potential to find high quality options
GoDaddy Auctions – Used to be THE place to buy PBN domains
NameCheap Auctions – Thousands available in the marketplace
Important Things To Note About When Purchasing Domains
Private is the first word in PBN.
You can’t hide from Google, you need them on your websites to see the links and pass on the power. But you do need to make sure there is no association between these websites. They need to look independently owned.
When buying domains, this means mixing up your domain registrars and registration dates. Do not always buy from the same one. And do not have your name and information in the whois for every domain.
Here are a few domain registrars to try:
NameCheap
Internet.bs
Name
Dynadot (quick heads up, these guys show your name even if you purchase whois protection)
GoDaddy (watch out for their expensive renewal fees)
7 Finding Hosting For The Domain
Finding Hosting For The Domain
Now that you have the domain(s) in your possession, you need to setup hosting so you can get your website(s) live.
To avoid Google (or anyone else) knowing you own all the websites, you need to put each of them on different hosting accounts.
If they were all hosted on the exact same server, it would be clear they are all associated with each other.
This need for separating hosting providers sparked the popularity of SEO hosting services.
The problem with “SEO hosts” though, is that most of them have footprints which show they are all the same provider. You can read about hosting footprints here.
The best thing you can do then is to hide in plain sight.
You do that by using popular hosts that real websites would use.
Here are some examples:
Premium Shared Hosts
ASmallOrange
BlueHost
HostGator
GreenGeeks
HawkHost
DigitalOcean (technical)
Amazon Web Services (technical)
CloudFlare (read my guide)
Incapsula (read my guide)
Most of these are expensive in comparison to SEO hosts or cheap shared hosts, but it’s worth it for the reduced risk of losing your network.
Thankfully, there is a cheaper option.
My friend Kevin decided to purchase reseller accounts from all the popular shared hosting companies recommended here, and will host your PBN sites on them for a significantly lower rate (starting at only $1.82/m per site).
There is a cost associated with setting this all up, and it can be scary for beginners, but the overall ROI from ranking top with multiple sites should easily justify it.
Later in the video we’ll cover an advanced strategy named clustering. This will allow you to host multiple PBN sites on the same hosting account with zero risk – but only if your hosting plan allows it. So make sure the packages you purchase allow multiple domains and MySQL databases.
For now, just know that the safest way is to only host 1 website per host, and to use high quality hosts,
