OMG I have to share this...

GT Web · Sep 1, 2004

So I recently registered a pretty bland domain that used to be an adult site, its first day of parking was yesterday and my stats showed: 3 hits

I was crushed...but as I was scrolling down the page I saw:

404 error traffic - 387

So now I've set up a 404 error page and am hoping to see some serious traffic in there tomorrow

cyphix · Sep 1, 2004

Am I missing something... ?

Bender · Sep 1, 2004

Well, I have a similar situation with www.thescripts.net
I caught the domain using eNom Club Drop, and you can see how many (unexpected) hits ...

peekaboo · Sep 1, 2004

cyphix said:
Am I missing something... ?

he received 387 uniques leftover link traffic from other sites/bookmarks and going to the pages which r no longer there. for example: adult-mega-domain.biz/boobs4us.html

now he is putting an error redirect page which will be forwarding all that traffic 2 the destination page/site of his choice.

GT Web · Sep 1, 2004

basically, producer hit the nail on the head and its funny because its the first time I ever went after an expired traffic domains...

its not acutally an adult domain per say, but the pervious owner used it that way

cyphix · Sep 2, 2004

Yeah I knew what u were talking about but I was just wondering what was so weird about getting 404 traffic to pages other than the root domain address?

DeCal · Sep 2, 2004

GT Web said:
basically, producer hit the nail on the head and its funny because its the first time I ever went after an expired traffic domains...

its not acutally an adult domain per say, but the pervious owner used it that way

What domain is it GT?

mole · Sep 2, 2004

Moral of the story. A domain name, no matter how good, does not equate to traffic. Development and traffic tricks is king in this game. Learn this skill, and you can outbeat even sex.com.