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how to used aged domain as money site

by keepongoing
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Hi everyone,

I just joined warriorforum today and am looking forward to learning from others and sharing whatever (little) things I know too.

I have a question about using aged domains as "money" sites. I've checked out a few threads in various forums about buying an aged domain with PR and then using it as a money a site for whatever keyword you're going after.

Here's my question - the high PR of these aged domains is (normally) on the homepage or root domain. But do you try to rank the homepage (with the high PR)? Or an internal page?

I'm not experienced in this but it occurred to me that there might be a problem either way:

- Suppose you try to rank the homepage, because it's the one with the high PR. The trouble now is that you can't get the keyword in the URL (because URL is already set as the domain name)

- So suppose you create an inner page on this aged domain instead, and stick the keyword in the URL of this inner page. The trouble now is that the page you've created has no PR. True, some of the PR might flow through from the root domain. But surely it's not as powerful as the actual high PR homepage itself (?)

Am I missing something? I'd love to understand how this works. I'm sure there are plenty of warriors who buy aged domains and use them as money sites.

Could someone more experienced than me enlighten me on this?

Thanks for reading this. Hopefully this will be of interest to a few people.
#aged #domain #money #site
  • Profile picture of the author Mr Lim
    PR is judge by the usefulness of your content and also the reputation of your website. Aged domain are consider realiable domain and this is what reputation called. You certainly need to know what exactly is Search Engine Optimize before going to the details. 2 cent.
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  • Profile picture of the author modernians
    Be careful! Page rank always use to be like 3 month old info, so although it may show as a page rank 4, that was its status 3 months ago. It may have slipped down the ranks. My advise, is build your own site following a simple seo formula and build the back links up gradually from high authority relevant sites and be patient, its hard but be patient!
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  • Profile picture of the author Perestroika
    Why not rank both. Continue ranking on the index.html level as well as start adding extra pages with new keywords and spill some PR juice to them. Obviously index.html is the older page with more PR so you should upkeep it by supplementing it with more links. New pages you can promote on as needed basis.
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  • Profile picture of the author cashcow
    - Suppose you try to rank the homepage, because it's the one with the high PR. The trouble now is that you can't get the keyword in the URL (because URL is already set as the domain name)
    This is less important then you probably think. I ranked a website with the url arizonatilesomething.com for a warts related keyword in a couple of weeks so don't let not having the keywords in the url stop you.
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  • Profile picture of the author JMSD
    Building your sites to please Google will inevitably lead to dramatic shifts in your site/page ranking somewhere, sometime down the line.

    Instead, concentrate on building sites that provide good content of interest to a high number of visitors and over time you'll see that Google Slap or not, your site will still be up where it belongs.

    I've got a site I haven't touched in four or five years - so no new content - but it is packed with hundreds of pages of good quality content. It's stayed on Google's page 1 at #1 out of 123+m sites, even Amazon isn't able to compete for that popular keyword term.

    Google has changed it's algorythms countless time since and will do so again. Dancing to Google's tune is fatal, in my view.
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    • Profile picture of the author JDIZM
      Originally Posted by JMSD View Post

      Building your sites to please Google will inevitably lead to dramatic shifts in your site/page ranking somewhere, sometime down the line.

      Instead, concentrate on building sites that provide good content of interest to a high number of visitors and over time you'll see that Google Slap or not, your site will still be up where it belongs.

      I've got a site I haven't touched in four or five years - so no new content - but it is packed with hundreds of pages of good quality content. It's stayed on Google's page 1 at #1 out of 123+m sites, even Amazon isn't able to compete for that popular keyword term.

      Google has changed it's algorythms countless time since and will do so again. Dancing to Google's tune is fatal, in my view.
      ^^ See not everything has a push button solution!

      Unless he made his own secret button?
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      • Profile picture of the author keepongoing
        Thanks for sharing your thoughts, everyone.

        Cashcow (for some reason I don't like calling you that!) - thanks for sharing your experience. That's actually exactly what I wanted to hear

        I've been hoping that it's not that important to have keyword in URL. It seems to be one of those dogmas that gets passed down ("you must have keyword in URL/domain name"), but as your experience shows you can rank a page for a keyword without having keyword in domain or even the URL, it seems

        I just thought perhaps it might be harder (than having KW in URL).

        Just to make sure I understood you though, do you mean you ranked the arizonatile homepage for a keyword like "warts cure"? (i.e. a domain totally unrelated to the keyword and in no way including it)

        My main concern is to work out how easy/difficult it is to rank a high PR homepage for a keyword when the domain name doesn't include the keyword at all.

        If you managed to do it in two weeks, that's highly encouraging. And I might just go ahead and try myself. I want to get the maximum value from the PR5.

        Thanks again everyone

        P.S. I like to look for examples and found a nice one. #3 in Google US for "internet marketing" is prosperly dot com (annoyingly I can't post URLs yet) - i.e. a homepage without keyword in domain name

        If anyone has any examples from their own experience (i.e. has ranked a homepage for a keyword without that keyword in domain name/URL) it would be great to hear about it.
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        • Profile picture of the author cashcow
          Originally Posted by keepongoing View Post

          Just to make sure I understood you though, do you mean you ranked the arizonatile homepage for a keyword like "warts cure"? (i.e. a domain totally unrelated to the keyword and in no way including it)
          Yep.

          Of course, your being able to rank for your target keyword depends on the competition for that keyword.
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          • Profile picture of the author keepongoing
            That's good to hear cashcow. I'd always figured that not having keyword in the URL of the page you're trying to rank might put you at a disadvantage. But even if it does (to a small extent) I suppose you can more than make up for it in other ways (strong backlinks, keyword in title etc.)

            Agreed, competition is key. Lately it's not so much the top 10 competition that's bothering me. It's the wretched "Google dance" - new pages yo-yoing around the SERPs.

            Thanks again
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  • Profile picture of the author NACAdam
    you can still get PR love from internal pages more so than if you just started a fresh domain .. You can use aged PR for money site as long as the name is relevant
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    • Profile picture of the author keepongoing
      Thanks for your input NACAdam. Yes, I had a feeling that inner pages on a high PR domain would benefit and have more authority (and perhaps ranking power) than a brand new page on a brand new domain.

      I guess my concern was that such a page wouldn't be making the most of the PR5 domain (where PR is on the homepage). Obviously,I'd have to build all subsequent keyword-targeting pages on inner pages.

      But it would be nice to know that I can use the homepage as my initial ranking vehicle (for first keyword) even though that keyword is completely missing from domain.

      Thanks again for contributing.
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  • Profile picture of the author watsonovedades
    The keyword in the domain is not soo important as before on the eyes of Google
    im ranking #3 on a competitive keyword with an aged domain i bought with PR3 , the ranking was definetly quicker than a fresh start domain (i've builded several sites before)

    Soo aged domain has more pros than cons to rank them on Google for competitive tems

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