PR vs Aged - which is better and why

I'll take the high PR site almost every time if there is a choice.

High PR... especially in your case.

Jared

So PR will survive the replacement of all the content?

I expected PR to eventually be recalculated /deprecated as all the inbound links break.

I as actually thinking aged was better.... Now THIS is why I asked :-)

Generally High PR (greater than 2). Anything less than that then it's a case of age as this cant be recreated, where PR can (and just as easily lost!)

Go register a new domain name and use the extra saved money to market it ... PR means nothing and the age means nothing without a site already attached to it..

James

You want high PR as others have said. This means that there are already other sites linking to that domain. The key is picking a domain that has inbound links with link text containing keywords you want to rank for.

Also, you might want to look at archives.org to see what the old web site used to look like. Pay special attn to the title, h1, h2s, and URLs for each of it's pages. This should give you clues about the keywords they were targeting so you can 301 redirect requests for old individual pages on the old site to the URLs on your new site whose content most closely matches the targeted keywords. You'll likely see 404 errors in the Google WMT for various URLs on the domain. You'll want to 301 redirect these so you don't loase the PR and credit for the inbound links and link text.

If the site still exists before buying it then use Xenu to crawl it and get a list of all of the URLs and titles in a spreadsheet. It will be useful when redirecting old URLs to your new URLs.

The age of the domain will reset as soon as Google notices it has changed hands (i.e. it's going to be considered a "new" domain once you seal the deal.)

I'll take a high PR any day over age.

The age of the domain in only one of the factors how Google grade your PR so just go with the high PR domain since it already have a high PR.

I'm a bit confused (the term "jump start" in particular) as to whether you plan to use this domain:

(1) in its own right to brand yourself and the site; or

(2) to provide linking power for your new sites.


Almost everyone on here is assuming its #1, but I'm not sure. Either way, I would go for PR (although I, would pick a PR3 with a more diverse backlink portfolio whereby the links will likely last, versus a PR4 where you will be in trouble if 1 or 2 links drop off).

If it is #2, then PR is even more of a factor and age is basically irrelevant. I am personally doing a lot of this so i'm busy snapping up PR domains without caring about specific keywords (or niches) and what not.

Tom

these are no content domains... whatever content was used to get the pr is long gone.

so you are saying i should use a SEO product to scout out the links and replace those inner pages with some kind of content to hold the pr.

makes sense.