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I recently found a great aged domain service called Fresh Drop. It is easy to find a domain name several years old with a keyword-related domain name.

I just tested the service, found a couple domains ready to be deleted, and purchased them. They were both ultimately sold through the GoDaddy site.

Unexpectedly, I did not own the domains immediately after buying them. Instead, the redemption period had to run, which it did, before they were transferred to my account. With the GoDaddy auction if the domain owner does redeem their domain then the purchase price is refunded.

I have now been able to confirm through whois that both domains have retained their age. It appears as if I bought them 7+ years ago, not last week.

Now we’ll see if this helps with SEO – it should. I’ve only used the free features available at Fresh Drop, but I was impressed – impressive enough to get me to go back and also to write this post.

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Update: FreshDrop is NO LONGER Recommended

What was a good service has turned into a huge, greedy rip-off – about $100 a month just to see the age of domains available from GoDaddy.

Fortunately, there are alternatives:

PremiumDrops.com – has a list of expiring GoDaddy domains, with their age. Here is a specific page: http://premiumdrops.com/list.php?l=Godaddy+Auctions&a=show – However, the service is $25 per month.

DropAce.com – Free – Easy to scroll through lists of expiring and deleting domains, but does not easy show age of the domain. Need to click on a domain name to see details, such as age.

GoDrops.com – Free – Nice of lists of daily dropped domains and their age. Unfortunately, to preserve PageRank one needs to get a domain before it has dropped into general availability. The service is thus good for getting a domain name, but not for getting an aged domain.

ExpiredDomains.org – Free – Great website with lists of domains and their age, including an ability for a keyword search.

JustDropped.com – Free – Good flexible search options, but not able to search or see age of domains.

Also – found http://EstiBot.com – very interesting domain naming tools

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Here is an example of how to take advantage of a hot trend and get some traffic to your website fast … and probably for years in the future.

Michelle Obama Monkey Face Picture

This is a picture that is all over the news as being offensive (or funny) because it is the top search result in Google images.

All you need is a hot topic like this, create a blog page like that website has done, and monetize it in some manner.

In this example, the monetization on that page is a CPA offer at the bottom which is related to the Obama administration. A simple email submit.

And of course the additional traffic is likely to visit other web pages where there are additional monetization opportunities.

Could you do something like this? Sure. These hot topics pop up every day and many will have a shelf life for a long time.