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Buying An Aged Domain Name

by simmonsmike7
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I'm in the process of buying an aged domain name with 600+ backlinks from buydomains.com - they are domain brokers.

I'm buying it ONLY for SEO purposes. It's been around since 1998, has 600 links, and will help to get things rolling.

If you've had experience doing this...

Any words of wisdom, tips, advice?
#aged #buying #domain
  • Profile picture of the author HCLee
    An aged domain is good but just be cautious and do some checking to confirm that this domain has never been previously banned by Google. But it is not recommended to place a 301 redirect on it as this may be construed as something like buying links or buying rankings.
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    • Profile picture of the author ARVolund
      You really need to take a close look at those 600 links.

      How many of them are going to stick if you change the website? If the sites quickly remove the links because your content is different they will do you no good at all.

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  • Profile picture of the author DNChamp
    BuyDomains is a great place however look around as far as price. If the domain your looking to buy is an exact match to your niche or product there are others that may be avaiable. Age is good but the backlinks may not mean sh&^ if they were like FFA type links.

    Get a exact match domain or the very best to it and really re build the links and dont rely on them
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  • Profile picture of the author MarkSherris
    Yeah old domains if they've previously had a good reputation are good, but you just need to check that it hasn't had any problems, like been banned by Google.

    If you found it had, you can still get round it by using webmasters and submitting a reconsideration (i think it's called) but still, saves the hassle to check in the first place :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author MarkSherris
    suppose it could also depend on your competition, if you're targeting something with low competition then a new domain name would be fine..just do your research and check up first :-)
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    • Profile picture of the author Highdefinition
      If you're good at finding the backlinks and history of old domains then I suggest you go ahead.Just make sure it won't hurt your site in the near future.
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  • Profile picture of the author simmonsmike7
    UPDATE:

    The reason I even found this domain name was not through buydomains.com - it's because the domain ranks on page 15 in Google for a very competitive term.

    The backlinks aren't much and could go away (I agree), but I'm really going for the 1998 domain age and the fact that they are sitting on page 15 with ZERO SEO on a PARKED DOMAIN PAGE.

    I can come in, build a clean website, get 10,000 links over the next 6 months and dominate this market - that's how I see it. What do you think?
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    • Profile picture of the author DNChamp
      Originally Posted by simmonsmike7 View Post

      UPDATE:

      The reason I even found this domain name was not through buydomains.com - it's because the domain ranks on page 15 in Google for a very competitive term.

      The backlinks aren't much and could go away (I agree), but I'm really going for the 1998 domain age and the fact that they are sitting on page 15 with ZERO SEO on a PARKED DOMAIN PAGE.

      I can come in, build a clean website, get 10,000 links over the next 6 months and dominate this market - that's how I see it. What do you think?
      Tried to pm you back but i need 50 post to use PM....But I agree with you 100%. I have many aged domains and with time and development you can bring it up to page 1 or 2.
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  • Profile picture of the author Barry Patterson
    I had a sales person promote and sell me on this aged domain idea. Guess what, I lost $7000.00 He turned out to be a fraud with a very good reference in the searching that was done before hand. If you want his company name email me, but on further thought, I don't think it will help you. Be careful please. My bill is still on my credit card. Barry
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    • Profile picture of the author simmonsmike7
      Originally Posted by Barry Patterson View Post

      I had a sales person promote and sell me on this aged domain idea. Guess what, I lost $7000.00 He turned out to be a fraud with a very good reference in the searching that was done before hand. If you want his company name email me, but on further thought, I don't think it will help you. Be careful please. My bill is still on my credit card. Barry
      I'm sorry to hear that - can you PM me the company name?

      I'm buying it for $2,000 from BuyDomains.com - a very reputable well known domain brokering company. I think it's well worth it, just wanted everyone's opinion...
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  • Profile picture of the author logon2future
    Hi,

    Buying old domain name will do no good, back links can be removed depending on the content even we don't know is google banned them be extra cautious when ever you buy old domains.

    You can buy old domain if you want to keep the same content as before double check is google banned the domain or not, if not you can buy but pay as low as possible don't high.
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  • Profile picture of the author webdango
    It's not the age of the domain that matters, it's the age of the links that point to the domain.

    The only way to have a 5 year old inbound link is if

    The site it comes from is 5 years old
    The site it links to is 5 years old

    That's part of how Google determines trust and authority.

    An aged domain with no inbound links might as well be brand new.

    Now right now there's no way to determine how old a link is. The only thing we can do is see how old the domain it comes from is, and how old the domain it points to is, which gives us the theoretical maximium age of the link.

    You can poke around in WaybackMachine and sometimes see old versions of the site to see if the link is there, but that's about it.....
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