Buying cheap becomes expensive (domains)
- SEO |
It always used to be a standard practice, buy a domain, setup some random WP theme, post articles/links on it and rank. Although that it still works it turns out quite expensive on the long terms for several reasons:
1) The domain loses links quite fast, especially links that people follow and report to the webmaster in question that it isn't the site he expected. Webmasters cleans up the link
2) Google somehow detects that the site is solely used for link selling and lowers the PR to remove the incentive from the buyer (Matt C words, not mine but I witness it on regular base), and thus the domain needs to be replaced as it doesn't have the advertised PR anymore. Obvious it's still very useful for private purposes.
How to do it better?
1) Find domains that have the full site stored in the wayback machine, that way you can rebuild the whole site to the original state and point one is solved, and point two probably as well as now it looks like a real site.
2) Buy a domain that is relevant to your niche and the link is the most whitehat you can get for your buck.
As a link seller / SEO working with low budgets it seems to be too expensive, however when you add in all the costs of having to replace a good % of domains after each PR update the long term costs probably won't differ that much at all.
So that's where I'm heading in 2014!
1) The domain loses links quite fast, especially links that people follow and report to the webmaster in question that it isn't the site he expected. Webmasters cleans up the link
2) Google somehow detects that the site is solely used for link selling and lowers the PR to remove the incentive from the buyer (Matt C words, not mine but I witness it on regular base), and thus the domain needs to be replaced as it doesn't have the advertised PR anymore. Obvious it's still very useful for private purposes.
How to do it better?
1) Find domains that have the full site stored in the wayback machine, that way you can rebuild the whole site to the original state and point one is solved, and point two probably as well as now it looks like a real site.
2) Buy a domain that is relevant to your niche and the link is the most whitehat you can get for your buck.
As a link seller / SEO working with low budgets it seems to be too expensive, however when you add in all the costs of having to replace a good % of domains after each PR update the long term costs probably won't differ that much at all.
So that's where I'm heading in 2014!