Mark Ligan

Mark has been working in SEO industry for last 7 years. He has been though Panda and Penguin updates and understands the need of creating SEO strategies which are reliable and last for long time. He can help you from finding expired domains to all the way up to managing a large network of websites. Here is his Step By Step process:

1. Expired Domains
   > Find niche relevant expired domains (For trust flow)
   > Check Arhcive.org for clean history (To verify no past history of abuse)
   > Analyse TF CF PA DA criteria (To meet minimum standards)
   > Check Backlinks (For spam and bad neighbourhoods)
   > Checking number of backlinks and referring domains (To meet minimum standards)
   > Check Anchor text ratios (For good distribution)
   > Check index status on Google (For deindexing issues )
   > Check Domain Age > 3 (Higher the better)
   > Check stats on Moz, Ahrefs, Majestic, Semrush(For clean history)

2. Hosting
   > Use Premium Hosts (Cheap hosts are not good in long term)
   > Use different IP for each domains (Different Class C IPs)
   > Use various international locations (For different ISPs)
   > Use different registrar, name servers, SOA records (No footprint)
   > Use different MX, A, records (No footprint)
   > Use CDN for some domains (To hide name servers)
   > Use HTTPS for some domains (Slight boost in rankings)
   > Block certain robots (To hide network from competitors)
   > Use WHOIS privacy on some domains

3. Website Creation
   > Use different CMS (100% WordPress, leaves footprint)
   > Use AD images (To make it look genuine)
   > Use high quality stock images (make it look professional)
   > Use videos (To add variety of formatting)
   > Add About Us, Privacy, T&C Pages (To meet basic requirements)
   > Use Popups (To make it looks genuine)
   > Use different plugins (Varity of plugins)
   > Use premium themes (Not free or hacked themes)
   > Post varying lengths of content (Not same length every time)
   > Use NAP (Where applicable)
   > Create Author profile (Give it a face and a name)
   > Use custom logo (To make it look genuine)
   > Use outbound links to authority websites (Not just to money websites)
   > Create internal linking (Important for creating SILO structure)
   > Create social accounts (To link them on website)
   > Create comments on blog posts (To make them look genuine)
   > Create 100% genuine hand-written content (No article spinning)