Can you drive a decent amount of traffic to your site by buying expiring domain names and redirecting traffic?

Also I am not an html pro so if this does work is there an easy way to set the domain to redirect traffic to your site?

Buying an expired domain will bring you traffic. you need to know if this web site had links to it.

for example. i bought http://dogs-world.net

this domain expired and had existing links to the web site.

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Depending on your budget and your definition of "decent traffic" - Yes you can.

Don't except a lot of traffic if you're not willing to invest in the domain. Also, the domains will have to be in your website niche, or you'll just end up with a bunch of untargeted traffic that's good for nothing.