Justin Laing
Pick Up A Great Website For Cheap
We’ve all seen those websites that show up in the SERPs that are just there because the domain has been around for years and has managed to pick up a few links along the way. They’re listed in dmoz, PR 4 or 5, but the content is really old. What if there was a way to dig through the list of sites in your niche and find the few that been abandoned by their owners? Don’t you think a some of those owners would be willing to sell you their websites far below their true value? They are! You just need to find them.
Old, Authoritative, Ranking Websites Are Waiting For You
I built a tool that will help you find sites you can buy that are old and authoritative in your niche. There are websites in almost every niche that have built up authority over years but have been abandoned by their owners. These absentee owners are often happy to unload their old websites on you for very little. The trick is finding these hidden gems amongst all the active websites. You can spend hours going through directories and SERPs looking for websites that are abandoned or you can use the tool I built to find them quickly and automatically.
Sitefinder301 – Find A Killer Deal On An Old Website.
Sitefinder301 uses the dmoz Open Directory and the Internet Archive to find sites that are relevant to your niche that haven’t been updated in a long time. If you’re lucky you can find a great site with an owner that is willing to sell it for very little.
How It Works
You supply a dmoz category URL and Sitefinder301 examines all the sites that are in it and finds the ones that haven’t been updated in a long time. It gives you PageRank and Whois information on the sites so you can quickly determine if it’s worth buying and who to contact. It’s a quick and easy way to come up with a short list of acquisition targets out of hundreds of possible websites.
Enough Already Where’s The Goods?
Ok here it is, the product of late night php hacking:
Benefiting From Your Acquisition
Here’s a couple ideas for what to do with your new site:
- Put up new content and rank quickly for valuable terms. Build upon the old sites authority and create something of real value.
- Put up a page that promotes your product or service and funnels visitors to your current website.
- Redirect the old site to your current site and benefit from it’s authority and traffic.
Share And Share Alike
Sitefinder301 is open source. You can install it on your SEO tools website or hack it for your own purposes. Download the source here: /makebeta/sitefinder301/sitefinder301code.zip
All I ask is you pass some link friendship back my direction 
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22 Comments
I may be a little slow, but how to you install SITEMINDER301? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
You have to have a server or computer with php running. Then you’d download the source code and set the config file settings. I don’t really have the time to walk you through it, sorry
. You can use it straight from my server though without installing it.
Hey, awesome idea. How would it be possible to scan more than one page at a time in DMOZ? Would it be possible to set it to scan starting at a top directory and then scan all of the subdirectories? What page of code would I have to modify? Thanks for any advice you can give.
uGux,
I believe there is a way to download the entire directory. If you wanted to scan the whole thing you’d probably just want to download it and figure out how to parse it and then feed the urls into the script some how. I can’t really go into what it would take to do that sort of thing cause it’s a pretty big project.
great tool… even though I’m not really looking to buy sites right now I find it really cool and interesting. Maybe in the future I’ll try to get some of these… some of them are very high quality.
Thank you.
A great tool. thanks again.
A great tool thanks
Interesting method. Thank you.
It is a good idea and useful.
So what happened to sitefinder? I see that it’s broken on this site and cannot be downloaded. Will it be released again?
The download link has been fixed:
//sitefinder301/sitefinder301code.zip
Is is still working. I downloaded, installed but nothing runs…
sad.
Time lost.
Thanks anyway if you can help.
BL
downloaded the source code , have php 5.2.9 running and can’t get the tool work to work.
I saw Justin posting about “set the config file settings” and I am lost there. this is an amazing tool – any help greatly appreciated !!!
It didn’t work for me, until I opened the right directory. (not /sitefinder/ but /sitefinder/sitefinder301/
Can you please upload a new copy, the page gives a 404 when I try to download
Hey Justin,
Thanks for the great software!!
I get “Error establishing a database connection” , I may be able to find where I should connect, but then getting the DB setup would be next to impossible, with out the DB structure an default data.
Any chance of getting a copy of the default DB and where to update the db connection.
Just wondering….
Thanks.
The DB thing was my server acting badly.
Can you tell us the name of the config file? I looked and can seem to locate it.
Thanks
Steve, sorry it’s been so long since I did that project I have no idea anymore. I’d be starting from almost the same spot you are. Good luck, I hope it turns out to be of some use.
How do “I” run the tool on your server without downloading it?
We don’t run it anymore. Sorry.
Dear friend,
I’m finding your site very interesting. Can you tell me about software that can search for old sites like this one. Maybe you can give me some tips. Thank you.
Best regards
hi
i have seen almost all matt cutts videos and searched alot about expired domains link juice. every expert said it wont work for link building. but i have tried it my self and believe me expired domain worked. after few days of registering website its got the old PR. suppose it was PR4 but now it is PR3. but this is not the big difference. if PR is about authenticity of domain then it should be good.
Then i experimentally purchased 5 expired domains. all got the old PR after few days. 3 of them were relevant keywords to my website. i put the almost same type of content as in old age in same 3 websites. google also index the pages quickly.
but i am not sure that will they pass link juice or not?
but about 2 domains that were not relevant, i ve put not so relevant content to old age and google doesnot index its pages since 3 weeks but both the domains have old age PR.
now my question is that how should i know that this domain is passing PR or not?
if i have similar relevant websites then should i link my own websites or 301 redirect these websites ?
Thanks
Zara Ahmad
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