Retain pr after buying dropped domain

by ilee
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Hey guys, how do you retain the pr of dropped domains after you buy them? Provided all the backlinks were checked before purchase and everything looks natural.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    There is nothing special other than getting the site up and not keeping it on a parked page for 3 months.
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    • Profile picture of the author ilee
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      There is nothing special other than getting the site up and not keeping it on a parked page for 3 months.
      Is it not worth trying to see what the site structure was before and get your site at least a bit similar? Another thought is that if you don't have a page that is linked to on another site somewhere else, does your site get the benefits of that link?
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      • Profile picture of the author mosthost
        Originally Posted by ichl13 View Post

        Is it not worth trying to see what the site structure was before and get your site at least a bit similar? Another thought is that if you don't have a page that is linked to on another site somewhere else, does your site get the benefits of that link?
        It makes no difference. As long as the backlinks that are giving the PR stay in tact, so will the PR.

        That said, if you buy enough dropped domains, every now and again you will see the PR drained for no reason.
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      • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
        Originally Posted by ichl13 View Post

        Is it not worth trying to see what the site structure was before and get your site at least a bit similar?
        Of course it is worth it. It can even be critical. Please disregard Mosthost on this because this is not his specialty and he has it dead wrong . studying the site structure will tell you how the inner pages in particular are getting their PR AND it will assist you in locating links to specific pages in that structure that are flowing PR even to your front page.

        PLUS structure along with content IS what will help those links stay in position. I know Mike knows about networks so he was not implying anything else. He just gave you a quick answer.

        Thanks for the info guys, so all I need to do is build my site and it "should" retain its pr. Cool.
        In some cases it can but in many cases don't make people who don't know what they are talking about fool you. there are many good domains out there getting links from webmasters who do check their sites for broken links and who also will delete the links they gave if they see the site is completely different than what they linked to. Sites always lose Pr for a reason and that reason is 95% of the time because webmasters remove the links and they are much likely to do so if you just build a site with no thought as to what was there before that the webmaster linked to
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
        Originally Posted by ichl13 View Post

        Is it not worth trying to see what the site structure was before and get your site at least a bit similar? Another thought is that if you don't have a page that is linked to on another site somewhere else, does your site get the benefits of that link?
        I should have been more specific. If there are high PR links coming into internal pages, you are going to want to recreate those.

        Depends on the type of links the site has for what else I might do. If it is a lot of links from local community type pages for example, you would want to have similar content or you risk those sites removing the links. If it is a lot of links from sites that look like they have not been touched in a long, long time, I don't worry about it too much. I have completely re-purposed plenty of domains with no link degradation.

        You have to look at it on a case by case basis though.
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  • Profile picture of the author dp40oz
    Theres nothing you can really do with dropped domains other than hope. Google is either gonna credit you with the PR or not.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      Originally Posted by dp40oz View Post

      Theres nothing you can really do with dropped domains other than hope. Google is either gonna credit you with the PR or not.

      tested this and have not found that dropped domains lose PR just because they are dropped. Started looking at this since the beginning of the year through now two updates. Would be interested if you found different.
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  • Profile picture of the author ilee
    Thanks for the info guys, so all I need to do is build my site and it "should" retain its pr. Cool.
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  • Profile picture of the author ThatAblaze
    What I usually do is find every link from the old site or sites and forward those to the home page. That way the home page collects all the dangling link juice.

    In order to find the links that existed before I first look on the wayback machine, and then google's cache and get as many as I can. After that I watch the 404s and forward any pages I see there to my home page.
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  • Profile picture of the author ilee
    Hey guys, cheers for all the help, luckily I took the information earlier with a pinch of salt as I didn't really think it was correct so I went ahead and bought 3 similar sites, similar backlinks with pr 2 to experiment with. I'm going to have one with the same pages routing the pr back to the homepage, one without caring about the structure and the last one with the pages redirected to homepage.

    Thanks for all the information.

    Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

    don't make people who don't know what they are talking about fool you.
    Over the past year I've realised a lot of people on here don't know what they're talking about, a lot of people like you guys obviously do and help send people in the right direction but no one successful in this business will give out their money maker method/knowledge so gotta make my own.
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