There are thousands of quality domain names expiring every day that people have simply forgotton about or deliberatley left to go that you can have. Some will have hundreds of links pointing to them which you can then benefit from by sending all the traffic they generate to your own sites.

I’m currently trying a service called www.namespy.com to keep an eye out for some nice domain names for my businesses and I’d recommend you try them out. Namespy recommend Snapnames to actually try and aquaire the names for you but I would consider trying www.pool.com as they seem to be more successful in getting the domains.

One of the other useful features of Pool.com is that you can search for expiring domains by keyword. For example, if you are about to set up a hotel directory website then do a search for domains with hotels in it and see what you find on pool.com.

If you can find one that’s been around for a while and has links pointing to it then it will give your site a kick start. Also there is little doubt in my mind (and others) that Google is now placing more value on domains the older they are.