Will You Buy This PR5 Domain?

Will the links creating the PR5 stick after the sale?

You can redirect the pdf link to another page and then the spread the PR out through the page but you do need to check the backlinks aren't likely to be checked by the link webmasters.

Will you get the inner page as well?

Did you checked the .pdf URL with different backlinks checkers? I bet ahrefs can find something legit that is pointed to the .pdf. If not, then most likely this link has been deleted and this .pdf file will be PR0 after update. Just my 2 cents

I'd redirect that page to the root. If you think the links will stick, I'd say go for it since it's only $20.

Citations as in backlinks? Doesn't matter if the page is a PDF, image or anything else. PR doesn't care or measure what type of resource the links are pointing to.

Possibly. You haven't given enough information to go on, but $20 is a small investment, so if it's a dud domain, it doesn't really matter.

So long as you have a 301 redirect from the PDF page to the new version of the page, it will most likely keep the PR (assuming you don't loose the backlinks in the meantime)

I am sure this PR will go down soon.

Interesting discussion, actually, about pdf files/pages.

Hard to say if the PR will hold. It's a gamble.

But I would make that pdf a resource page with my links on
them. I do believe that links on pdf's get PR passed on to
them. You should also do what all people with pdfs should
do anyway: Have a plain text version as well.

So, I'd just create my own pdf file and abuse that PR5 to the
max. Or, edit the pdf file, add my links, take any others off.

But, like I said, the PR may not hold. Then what?

I would also do some research as to the truth behind the
PR.

Never saw any discussion before as to PR and pdfs.

Interesting topic, to be sure. Worth 20 bucks? I do quite
a bit of research before I let go of even a lousy 20 bucks.

The main problem of what you are doing, is taking what
some people think is a great resource offline. Anyone
who links that gets wind of that will take the link down
in a heartbeat. Don't think it happens? I get emails
from people from time to time telling me a page is no
longer there like it was, and they have ideas as to what
I should or should not do.

Just a side note again on pdfs. You can do a whole lot
of seo with them, just like html, by managing the properties.

Paul

I think it will retain the PR as long as the links creating the PR stay intact.

A pdf has a Google Cache the same as an HTML web page can have a Google Cache, it's basically a web page.

Here's an example of a PR2 pdf with a Google Cache (link here).

This is at the top of the Google Cache of the example PR2 pdf (link above):
IMO the only things that matter are the links creating the PR actually stick after you buy the domain & you make sure you redirect the pdf URL correctly.

PR 5 for $20?

There must a reason (negative in terms of PR) for which a PR 5 is available for $20.

I will recommend you to pass the domain through Internet Archive: Wayback Machine

Abdul

I am guessing that the root URL has a lowly PR1, because the the backlinks were pointing directly to the PDF file and as such that backlink juice stopped at the PDF and did not have a chance to flow and raise the PR of the root URL.

Thanks for the input guys.... this one is new for me so I decided to just throw the $20 at it to see what happens to the PR. I will be recreating the page with the same URL (with .pdf at the end) but the page is going to be a typical blog page...

I am just too curious to see what happens to the PR....

Will update this thread in about a month to let you guys know what happened!