Any value to old blog sites?

[ehdonhon]

I notice a lot of domain names dropping that used to be personal blog sites for some person or another. They usually have gathered a lot of links from other personal blogs, but I wonder how many of those links ever get following since they come from old journal entries. Also, the sites usually don't have any specific theme or topic, so I would think the only thing you could do with it is put some very generic links on it.

Do these sites really have any value? Do they keep getting traffic once they cease being a blog? Is there something that can be done with these sites that take advantage of the fact that they used to be blog sites?

Thanks.

[WebCat]

The links are valuable for generating traffic, but only if they survive the drop. Generally, Google listed links do not count for Pagerank, and oftentimes stale links get dropped off by the originating site administrator.

Also- if people have the site in their favorites list, but upon coming there find that the old blog is now an advertising site, they will generally eliminate it from their favs.

You could, of couse continue the blog and use the traffic for advertising and/or linking purposes. However properly maintaining a blog can be a lot of work.

I hope this helps a little!

[DNInvestor]

They should also still have incoming links - they may not have informed everyone linking to them that they have shutdown

[octobus]

Blogs are not the best expired domains. Someone speaking from experience... imho