Buying relevant high PR domain and pointing to site

This does work now. There is some speculation that Google could be about to hit this technique in some way. How they would do this is speculation at this point. I don't see how it would be that difficult to devalue all links pointing at a dropped domain. Of course - you would then be looking to buy domains before they were deindexed or dropped, which many do currently anyway.

Hi Kittdigital,

That interview sparked a lot of controversy between white- and blackhat linkbuilding, yet again.

It really works though, and I think it's understandable that Google wants to go after paid links. However, in my opinion, I don't think it's efficient enough for them to go after the small guy with the small private network.

Now if you're going to go buying links from bigger networks such as SAPE, then things might look ugly. I read that today they slapped another such a network, don't know which one though.

But Penguin 2.0 is pure speculation at this point.

I can tell you from firsthand experience that having your own high PR can work wonders If you want to experiment and go this route, add me on skype! I know Becker and his stuff.

Cheers
Pat

That was actually an interesting post to read the comments on lol. You've got so many people who claim to be "white hatters" on there and they either don't realize the fact (or their blind to it) that Pat Flynn basically created his successful Security Guard site using primarily what most most people consider blackhat tactics.

In addition, he still makes lots of money from affiliate offers on so called "blackhat" stuff, yet some of his fans act like anything but whitehat is pure evil, except if Pat does it I guess lol.

Pat's a great guy and there is nothing wrong with what he has done at all but some of the commenters...wow.

Just watched a free report video promoting a new Alex Becker's SEO Omega course and completely disappointed.

He shows us a site watchthingsonline.com that ranks for a few keywords like "bleach episode guide".

He mentioned that he uses a special siloed site structure, bla-bla-bla and buys old domains filling them with relevant content.

Hogwash.

A quick check with ahrefs shows that he links from various domains (blogroll-like style),
like this one: _www.mzuhdijasser.com (way down in the right column).

And his domain has got about 1,900 such links according to ahrefs!

My god, I can rank almost anything with this tactic myself. No secret sauce needed.

But what's about Alex Becker? Teach what you preach? No?

Many people like to talk about secret sauce in packages, I used to do it myself almost a year ago and that secret sauce was in fact a "PAD submission", you use software to submit to software sharing sites and the thing that you share is a puzzle that you can compile into an .exe with some software, then you submit it with other software, and you host the PAD file (which is in fact an XML with some basic info about the software like release date) at your web hosting.

So it's a little bit of a complicated process that at the time not too many people were aware of or too lazy to execute it but above all, it was extremely effective to rank EMD type of sites. After the EMD update the method became pretty much dead. Not cause the links got less effective, not at all, but because the submission process didn't allow for any anchor text diversity. You had the main kw like 90% of the time and naturally the rest at a 10% rate. Sure it's possible to do 20 seperate submissions to 25 sites each with 20 different keywords but that's very time consuming and not too worth it.

Anyway, cause it worked so well I didn't feel like sharing it so that other link sellers could copy the idea and thus I called it "secret sauce", and it also sounds a bit appealing of course.

Anyway, nothing secret about high PR links indeed.

And not too many secrets about link building in general either. There are just a few things that are more effective then others but for the rest it all comes down to the same thing, links from juicy pages or that at least pass juicey pages in the lifetime span of a link. That's why web2.0's on theirselves are so incredibly weak.

Back to the point, I am waiting for the moment that Google will reset the link value from expiring and dropped domains, pretty sure it will happen and then we will have to buy complete websites before they expire.

That Pat is the same guy that was ranking pages then doing a redirect directly to Amazon.

Now the other guy is spinning junk articles & dealing with DP.

Both short term.

There won't be a replacement as accurate as PR, DA/PA/CF/TF etc.. all pretty much crappy misleading parameters which based on very partial information and very easy to get manipulated.
PR, with all its drawbacks (especially the faking PR bug) is a Google parameter and it reflects quality of backlinks the best way.