Buy Expired Domain With High PR

emilix,

There are several steps to evaluating the right aged domains to buy. Although what Retsek says has merit and is something you would want to do eventually - the whole idea is to get aged domains that will not need much backlinking. After all you are really buying the domain with PR because of links.

I put a lot more into my domain buying process and checks before I buy domains - much more than I can go into here - but of course you want to make sure the domain is not faked and you want to make sure you look over the links. IF you do your homwe work then the domains will keep their PR. If you buy domains with just a few links or you buy domains with the wrong kind of links you will end up wasting money and would be better off buying brand new domains because those sites will lose their PR in no time.

If you have to build links to maintain your PR too often then theres no point in buying aged domains to begin with. My aged domains tend to keep their links and Pr unless I get lazy and do something that makes them lose it (like forget to setup the sites properly - which with PR2s and 3s in the past I have gotten busy and forgot to do that on a couple)

If you have no idea what you are talking about, you really shouldn't speak.

Content, bounce rate, and conversion rate have nothing to do with PR.

Kindly step away from the keyboard.

PR is a measure of the quality of backlinks coming in to a webpage. I have never found any evidence of age giving any kind of a boost to the PR.

This is not entirely true. I agree you can find tons of high PR pages being outranked by low PR pages. However, if you dig in a little deeper to those situations, you will find that the higher PR page is not targeting that keyword, or at the very least not targeting it as heavily as the lower PR page is. That is the reason for the lower PR page outranking the higher PR page.

Now if you buy a high PR domain to use for your main site, you most certainly can have a significant advantage over low PR pages targeting the same keywords. Not to mention if you setup the site structure in a way to really take advantage of internal links, you will find getting a top ranking much easier than if you start with a brand new domain.

They are still a ton of good.

I know you are a fan of using a silo structure for a website. So imagine you do that, but you are starting with a domain that has a PR of 4. That makes those internal links way more powerful. You will find the individual pages gaining PR and rankings faster.

If you wish to believe that then believe it. I've shared enough on this site regarding this issue. I'm not going to go on endlessly sharing the same points over and over. I've become tired of the same myths. No matter how often you rebut them they come back up again and again. Like competition count being a matter of search result count, blasting links will rank you for any term,bad links can't hurt your site (really funny because most people here will agree with that last one though I have linked over and over to the evidence that destroys that myth and others have reported and confirmed its a myth) and on and on. Its junked up this forum and why so many people have left, are leaving, rarely come back or just cut down posting like I have. SO last time for a long time.......

A) Anyone who knows anything about aged domains knows you merely create the pages that are getting links so your first point is total non factor.
B) Plenty links stay for a very long time - years and years (nothing is eternal). That should be obvious by asking a simple question -How often does a blogger go back to a post he made three years ago and remove the link? They don't even remember its there and tht people linked directly to tht page who are the same.

Shucks I have links to a sports team domain from a MAJOR regional newspaper and guess what? The sports team no longer exists - long gone -but no one goes back into those old sections and deletes the stories and the links with them. Eventually being a newspaper they will be archived but years from now (they have stories going back beyond 2002) and I get the benefits of it for much less than buying links would have cost (domain cost me like $40).

In short its pure nonsense to say that all links vanish and you are just as well buying a new domain but hey if you want to believe it please do because think about it -

It makes buying aged domains cheaper the more people who do. Hope GeorgeR convinces even more people. Saves me money on domains being bid on. Less people less bidding.

anyone can feel free to rebut me on that. I won't respond further on that issue. I wave the white flag because its not my War. Let the people who don't know what they are talking about take over the board. From what I have seen recently that mission is about 70% complete.

So you just rebuild those pages to retain the links. Or you can 301 redirect them.

Problem solved.

No, you don't need the content though. There is no need to go to archive.org to find the content of the specific page. You just need to recreate the URL. You can put whatever content you want on there. As long as the URL still exists, the backlink will still point to it.

Make sense?

As for the 301 thing, I would just point them to the homepage if you are going that route.

Thanks for that, but that doesn't quite answer my questions. If I want to link to my site on racing cars (to increase its PR) do I need to buy a high PR racing car site, or will any high PR site be able to give me the PR juice I need?

If it's any site - say I buy a high PR site about boats - will just a good link (with the right linking text) be enough, or will I need to write a whole article about racing cars on that site, or what will I need to do to get the most benefit?