A quick and easy way to check your domain history
Today’s post is addressed to people who are planning to launch a site for their business and blog. Therefore, we are pleased to introduce you to an interesting and practical tool with which you can check your domain history. Domain history matters Many people planning to purchase a domain for their business or blog are often guided solely by the domain name. Yes, such actions are of great importance for image, but it is also worth paying attention to several other aspects that can have a huge impact on the visibility of our site and the results obtained. One of the most important is the history of the domain and what has been on it so far. Only then will we know if there is a site running there that was infected, duplicate or spammy. To do this, use the Wayback Machine tool – Internet Archive. How to check the domain history step by step? Entering the Wayback Machine homepage, our eyes will be greeted by a page with a field for entering a URL, where you need to specify the domain to check. For the purpose of this article, we used the wp.pl domain:
Then, after loading the page, we will see a calendar that shows the execution of a copy of the page by this tool. This carries a lot of interesting information, based on which we can assess how long the page was not working or what time new elements were added to it and, most importantly, when a new version of the page was uploaded:
Looking one by one we see a year counter showing the changes since the domain was first registered, then below that we have the option to view the site on a given day of its operation. As you can see, checking a domain’s history in Wayback Machine is not difficult. However, keep in mind that this is only the beginning of the analysis of a domain before buying it. In the remaining steps, it is necessary to check other factors related to off-site activities in the form of inbound links, among others.
