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PR6 Domain

by aaaa33030
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I bought a domain name over 4 months ago.

Last month I redirected it to my amazon black friday deals affiliate link.

A few days ago I checked the page rank of the domain and it went from 0 to a PR of 6. It also had 80 google backlinks because of the redirect.

In spite of the PR6 there still were no amazon affiliate sales.

So I removed the redirect, installed a wordpress blog, added some unique content and a few clickbank affiliate links to my site.

Within 2 days google had removed the 80 google backlinks and the pr went back to 0.

What could I have done to keep the PR of 6 without it redirecting to my
amazon black friday deals affiliate link?
#domain #pr6
  • Profile picture of the author Richard Van
    More to the point, why would an increase in PR mean more sales?

    If I buy from a site, I don't decide on account of the PR.
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    • Profile picture of the author Karen Blundell
      there is a huge misconception about Page Rank. Just because a site has a PR 6 doesn't mean it will sell anything.

      Your sales copy, the actual product or service you're selling, and the amount of traffic you drive to that sales message, will determine whether the site gets any sales, not the Page Rank.
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  • Profile picture of the author Cataclysm1987
    You probably reset the PR when you dropped the site from one thing to another.

    Google is getting more advanced in detecting these sorts of things. When a site gets shut down and the domain sold, they wait to see if it drops and changes into another site, often times shutting down the PR.

    In other words, I think you are pretty much boned.
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  • Profile picture of the author ambition
    The PageRank increase is a result of the redirect. Those attributes carried over from the URL you were redirecting to. The only way to keep the PR would be to keep the redirect.

    And as mentioned, PR has little to nothing to do with how many sales you make.
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