Expired domain 301 Redirection Strategy of Competitors
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I have one simple question about expired domain redirection strategy.
I am 100% sure that one of my competitors are using this strategy to rank the website.
Is there any tool or method to find out how many domains competitor has redirected to his/her website?
Your answer is highly appreciated.
Thanks
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Hi gfdd420,
Yes Gaston already mentioned the best tools for backlinks analise.
Using this tactic of redirecting expired domains, i can see this working for healthy and relevant domains for your website. So if they wouldn´t be domains with legacy spam issues / penalties and their topic is highly connected to the topic of your website i wouldn´t expect Google to penalize this as this is not much different from you buying a competitor and redirecting its website to your own.
Hope this helps
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Hello there!
Yeap there are tools to find that domains being redirected to another, the same tools that analyze backlinks profiles: Moz OSE, Ahrefs SiteExplorer and Magestic are the most popular and the most reliable.
Also, keep in mind that this tactic you are referring is not recommended. It is likely to be penalized.
Hope I've helped.
Best luck.
GR.
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