How Aged Domains Can Fast-Track Your Site’s Success with Alex Drew [Ep.127]

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Building a website off of an existing domain instead of starting from scratch gives you a valuable head start. By leveraging the domain’s existing authority and backlinks you can generate traffic and rank your site in a fraction of the time. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But how do you track down an existing domain that is topically relevant? And how do you separate the good domains from the bad?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alex Drew has provided aspiring website owners with the answers to these questions. Alex is the founder of Odys Global, a marketplace that offers a variety of thoroughly vetted, premium, aged domains. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, Alex joins us to dissect the benefits of buying a domain, and the best practices to follow to ensure success. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He breaks down the characteristics you should look for in a domain, the best ways to migrate and recreate content, and explains the dos and don’t when it comes to 301 redirects. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He also highlights the red flags you should steer clear of, including ensuring that the domain isn’t trademarked and checking the backlink profile for spammy links. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Building a site off of a quality aged domain isn’t the only way you can make money from domains. If you have an eye for spotting future trends, you can also invest in domain names that you think will increase in demand. According to Alex, </span></p> <blockquote> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Buying domains to resell later is a viable investment strategy. Domains that were worth $50-$100 15 years ago are now worth thousands of dollars. Good domain names go up in price over time. If you spot a great domain that you can see is undervalued, that’s a huge opportunity for you to become a domain investor.”</span></em></p> </blockquote> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Whether