Bought an expired domain with tons of links...

[Jernet]

I just bought a domain that was pretty big back in the late 90's-early 2000's.

It appears to have a lot of solid links coming from all over. Lot's of pr4's and pr5's.

Here is my question:

This domain/website seemed to have quite a few pages, with a handful being the main pages, for example:

domain.com/a/
domain.com/b/
domain.com/c/

Is there a way I can safely take advantage of traffic coming into each of these pages? I am going to develop it, and in the meantime would like the pages to have some sort of content on them so they can get re-indexed.

I have heard of redirects and stuff like that, but not sure what they are?

I was thinking of using something like that for the lesser pages.

I want to do it the search engine 'friendly' way :shy:

Thanks in advance!

Jer

 

[cyberpacific]

Create file name ".htaccess" and put it into your main directory
inside your .htaccess :
ErrorDocument 403 /index.html
ErrorDocument 404 /index.html

So, when someone type domain.com/a , and directory /a doesn't exits , so visitor will be directed into your domain.com/index.html

Hope above tips could be usefull

 

[Jernet]

thanks! seems simple enough. i will wait till dns propogates, and then give it a shot. much appreciated k:

 

[rawkinrich]

Create file name ".htaccess" and put it into your main directory
inside your .htaccess :
ErrorDocument 403 /index.html
ErrorDocument 404 /index.html

So, when someone type domain.com/a , and directory /a doesn't exits , so visitor will be directed into your domain.com/index.html

Hope above tips could be usefull

Agreed, one of the best ways to do this. There maybe a few other ways for SEO, but for server organisation and structure, this would be better.

Htaccess redirect - http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=htaccess+redirect&meta=

Rich

 

[Jernet]

Thanks Rich...helpful as well!

 

[Deleted member 2020]

Ideally, I think, on the main pages, you would put up some content relevant to the content that was there before. That way each of the *important* pages can have basic optimisation to maintain/reindex their respective positions in search engines.

Don't forget that many of the links in for each of the important pages will have keywords specifically related to the content of that particular page.

Also, visitors will be happier finding roughly the sort of content they were looking for, and it is more likely that that new people will link to those pages in the future. You could always have clear links on the page to more substantial content on your homepage or whatever.

Of course this might not tie in all that well with any new structure you give the site.

Maybe once you have the new site set up, you could use redirection to the new, relevant pages.

Just ideas.

 

[Jernet]

Ideally, I think, on the main pages, you would put up some content relevant to the content that was there before. That way each of the *important* pages can have basic optimisation to maintain/reindex their respective positions in search engines.

Don't forget that many of the links in for each of the important pages will have keywords specifically related to the content of that particular page.

Also, visitors will be happier finding roughly the sort of content they were looking for, and it is more likely that that new people will link to those pages in the future. You could always have clear links on the page to more substantial content on your homepage or whatever.

Of course this might not tie in all that well with any new structure you give the site.

Maybe once you have the new site set up, you could use redirection to the new, relevant pages.

Just ideas.

good stuff as well..thanks!