As of to date, Fresh Drop is no longer offering a free trial or free signups. You will have to sign up and pay $19.95 per month to use their service. The websites mentioned in the video are https://ahrefs.com/ and https://archive.org/ Ahrefs is not a free service but Archive is. If you are new to affiliate marketing, I suggest you hold off for paying for services like this. Use every free tool you can find until you really have a handle on what you are doing AND your affiliate websites are making you money.
Fresh Drop will help you decide on how to choose a domain name for your blog. This tool is best for those who want to find aged domains, domains with high PR attached to them, strong backlinks pointing to that website, and most importantly to see if that domain name is already getting search engine traffic. Search engine traffic is the best kind of traffic that you can get because people are actively searching for what you have to offer.
Why would you want to find an aged domain?
Well, domain age is an important SEO factor for your Google ranking. Among the hundreds of weighting factors that Google considers in determining how to rank search engine results is the age of your domain — in other words, how long that domain has been around.
It’s worth noting that domain age isn’t referring just to how long you have owned a given domain name, but instead how long it has been since Google first indexed that domain, or saw a link to the domain.
Because of this many companies purchase “aged” domains that have been around for a while for the extra bit of Google oomph. Of course just because a domain has been registered for 10 years doesn’t mean that Google considers it 10 years old — it has to have actually had a site indexed by Google.
In other words a domain that’s been registered for 10 years but has no actual site up, or nothing that Google has ever found, is the same as a domain that you bought yesterday.
There is a certain amount of debate about exactly how important domain age is to your ability to rank well, but testing and experience by SEO professionals paints a pretty clear picture that an older domain age competes for rankings a bit better.
In fact, Google has even stepped forward to tell us a little bit about the importance of domain age, though as usual they’re still holding on to some safe-guarded secrets.
Here’s the basics of what we know:
- Domain age is a factor in determining Google rankings, and a part of our SEO.
- Sites are significantly devalued for the first few months after Google first discovers them.
- It is extremely challenging to rank well for competitive terms in those first few months. In fact, some SEO professionals simply won’t work with brand new domains.
- According to Google’s Matt Cutts, the difference between a domain that’s 6 months old and 12 months old is very small.
Why would you want to know the PR of a website?
Pagerank or PR is still the most revealing & critical metric that governs a domain’s ability to rank. But since 2013 Google have chosen not to update & share this information any more in an attempt to make their search results harder to manipulate.
There are a lot of inexperienced Seo’s losing money in domain auctions and also letting great domains pass them by because of outdated PR metrics. Some people are paying hundreds of dollars for domains with a Toolbar PR6 when in reality the domain is probably a PR0.
How important are backlinks to a website you ask?
Well, Backlinks or Inbound Links (IBL’s) are links that are directed towards your website and are the building blocks to good Search Engine Optimization.
The number of backlinks a website has is in a good indicator of its popularity or importance with search engines. Search engines, namely Google, give more credit to websites that have a larger number of HIGH QUALITY backlinks and consider those websites more relevant in a search query.
It is not sufficient to just have a high number of inbound links; they need to be high quality links. For search engines to determine the quality of inbound links the content of the site is critiqued. The content of the websites you have inbound links with needs to be relevant to the content on your site.
The more relevant the inbound links are to your site helps determine the quality of the links. If your site is about greeting cards than linking to a site about German Shepherds is not relevant and is therefore not a quality link. You want to focus your efforts on getting backlinks from websites in your niche that are already trusted by the search engines.
Why would you want a domain with traffic already going to it?
For obvious reasons, if you buy an aged domain in your chosen niche, with high PR, high quality backlinks, and traffic already going to that domain name, you will hit the ground running and start seeing affiliate commissions flowing into your bank account.
I hope you found this article helpful.