The Demise of Personal Blog Networks?

The market is getting saturated yes and a once lucrative cheap solution becomes more and more expensive.

The more reason to restore the old site to how it looked before, or very similar to at least have the best chance of reserving the link juice.

I just checked expireddomains.net, the expiring domains in the auction.

Found about 3100 PR3+ domains.

Applied a few wide filters like MozRank 2+ and DA20+ (kind of the very least you should expect from a PR3 domain), guess how many domains left? 414, it can't get worse then that.

Now apply a filter to only take English domains and you're left with 181 PR3+ domains.

And probably half of them are spammed to death yes, so that's less then a 100 domains that are really worth it, and half of the world is bidding on them.

That's just GoDaddy though, there are dozens of other registrars that hold auctions that many are not aware of, just search.

There are other methods for getting expired domains with good quality backlinks...I know that's quite a cryptic response but I don't want to give anything away....yet.

It's another in a long line of small-time tactics that has been buried due to overuse.

Luckily for you, your competitor is also probably reaching the same conclusions you are.

A new player in my local SEO SERPs (SEO + city) is ranking his SEO business with 4 articles all with the same content and one (ONE!) PR4 homepage article link, written in the usual outsourced barely coherent English.

I have no doubt that in a few months, some update or penalty will finally hit him and toss him off...but in the meantime, it's possible he's able to get a few hundred a month in clients just based on ranking well.

So long as decent PR links give you that kind of juice...it's worth it to get a decent domain that YOU control all the content and hosting for instead of renting it from someone else.

I'll take an article on a site I own to rank my own site long before I let my business link sit on a page of random barely written articles with links to who knows what else.

Private network building may be done for people ranking trying to sell WSOs and Clickbank junk, but for bigger businesses that can use a PR domain, write GOOD articles, and get some decent rankings - buying a domain for a few hundred for good link juice is still worth the money.

Rob,

Just a heads up your site in your signature is currently suspended.


Alex

Whats the price of a half decent PR3 these days over at Godaddy?? I have not bought anything there in over a year

Just utilise other networks to build your own High PR domains, wait wut?

Build decent sites, they gain PR ta da! The more sites you have, can you see it omg a network is developing.

Kthxbai

You know Google is really not a business model. They will only slap you. You must come up with a better business plan if you want to make any online income.

Market was saturated as private blog network boom recently. So it's demand/supply law in domain PR auction. I usually grab expired domain with good backlink and aged and build PR on my own with quality content and backlink.