WTF! From Pagerank 4 to 0 , an interesting case study!

by 46 replies
55
Hi,

i have bought serveral months ago a good aged expired domain listed on dmoz.
The domain had Pagerank 4 and is the following:

uannabe.com

This domain was not redirecting into any website, is listed in dmoz and has a good authority as you can check on:

Open Site Explorer

Site Explorer Results - Summary - Majestic SEO

The domain was owned by a startup company that decided to
abandon the project for lack of funds.
It has not lost any backlink after the expiration.

I dont't understand how and why this good domain has lost ALL HIS PAGERANK.

Do you have any opinion?
#search engine optimization #case #interesting #pagerank #study #wtf
  • Any warrior can answer?
    • [1] reply
    • Have you been updating the site since you acquired it? What about linking to it also?
  • How long has this site had this content structure? I mean it's just a gateway page with a couple of ads plastered on. Not a real website, and not even a fake website. This page is just begging to get the PR removed, and the site thrown out of Adsense.

    Google's just giving the domain a fresh start it clearly deserves. It was dropped in late 2012 after all.
    • [2] replies
    • Hi warriors, thanks for reply.
      After the expiration i built a courtesy page but later i have decided to park the domain
      because i was developing the website.

      I had a similar issue with another domain (listed in dmoz with good authority), after the expiration i have put online a blog and the pagerank dropped to 0.

      Do you think that the reason is only due to the parking page?
      So if you buy a good aged domain to put it in parking, this domain will lose all the pagerank?
    • The homepage of my domain is very similar to this:

      hxxp://portrushplayhouse.com

      This domain is a good aged expired domain with pagerank 4 owned by goname.com .
      GoName, Inc is a famous company that is in the business since many years.
      So, According to your reasoning, this domain will lose all the pagerank?
      • [1] reply
  • Banned
    [DELETED]
  • That domain sucks balls,

    And it did redirect:

    https://www.majesticseo.com/reports/...exDataSource=F

    You just suck at picking domains. Stop wasting people time with this.

    BLOG NETWORKS

    • [ 1 ] Thanks
    • [2] replies
    • Where do you see the redirect?

      I receive a regular 200 response code on uannabe.com
      • [1] reply
    • Banned
      We need to all chip in & get you a tshirt that says that.
      • [1] reply
  • This site is might infected because avast antivirus block it when ever i try to open it,
  • Losing PR is easy, one bad backlink could be a reason for this... CHECK all your backlinks for a possible problem and investigate if they are NOT blacklisted!
    • [1] reply
    • I have checked and the backlinks are not blacklisted.
      The website was owned by a well funded start up that has received many important citations.
      The domain conserve many dofoolow backlinks from ALL THE IMPORTANT local newspapers (many have pagerank 8), for example look at the second row in the article:

      Uannabe: nell'incubatore di H-Farm il 1° maggio nasce un canale dinamico che facilita la vita a candidati e aziende - Il Sole 24 ORE

      It is a valid domain listed in DMOZ with years of work by the owners , not the classic shitty domain with thousands of spam backlinks or .edu shitty backlinks bought for 30$ from a chinese guy or something.

      Yes, of course, it has lost some backlink but this has justified the pagerank 0?

      Moreover, the domain is regulary indexed:

      https://www.google.com/search?q=info%3Auannabe.com

      If you see this domain today ready for release, would you place a backorder?

      I remember you that there was an interesting auction on this domain because many people have backordered this, or they are all idiots?
      • [1] reply
  • Dont be so hard on this guy. He will learn from this. Normally opportunity comes from failing many times. There is a gift here and it just maybe the knowledge that is learned by making a mistake.
    • [ 1 ] Thanks
  • I've given up on PR. Yeah it shows something, but these days there are other metrics that are much more important. PA/DA and TF/CF.
    And perhaps AHREF's url and domain rank matter in the future too (for the moment, i would consider it a comparison figure with other sites).
  • Banned
    Looks like you've lost links.

    This (hxxp://h-farm.it/) shows as a link in SEOspyglass (PR5) but there's no link on the backlink page.

    No link here either (PR4): hxxp://jobtalk.blog.ilsole24ore.com/jobtalk/hr_center/

    That's all I checked.
  • It happens to us all... You learn from it and move on, don't waste time beating a dead horse!
  • All idiots, all over the place...cuckooo...cackaaaa...Complete madness sometimes...people buy anything with a pulse, they have really no clue what they are bidding on. Like Furbies and Cabbage Patch dolls.
    • [1] reply
    • CALM DOWN YOU ALL!!

      The site in question still has enough links to have PR (maybe not PR4 ) and all of the PR to that site was NOT redirects. If it were an N/A then I would say that it had been deindexed but its zero. No one knows for sure but there is another possibility.

      The site was offline and could have fell out the index. All sites that fall out of the index will be an N/A. As you all know often times when an N/A is recrawled it shows a PR Zero without an update.

      So its entirely possible that this doamin will regain some PR but OP....

      Who ever taught you how to buy domains left out a critical point. You cannot leave a domain parked after you buy it. Its one of the quickest ways to lose links and I doubt you still have a PR4
      • [ 1 ] Thanks
  • Hi,
    In magestic SEO i see your backlink and you make all backlinks from 1 or 2 domain and this is bullshit you have to make backlink from different sites.Correct me If i am wrong!
    • [2] replies
    • You're wrong. It's 54 referring domains for root, and 48 for www subdomain.
    • Banned
      Not really.

      If you had permanent followed links on the Home pages of WSJ & MSN do you really think you would need links on 175 other domain/pages to rank for a decent traffic keyword? That's an extreme example but I'm trying to make a point that authority trumps volume when it comes to backlinks.

      The amount of referring domains doesn't mean anything when you have an awesome link profile.
  • How do you guys know there is a redirect? Where do I check on Majestic that there has been a redirect?
  • Banned
    PR is based on links pointing at URLs.

    If the links always stay intact, so does the PR.
  • I've read in an article where it was written that Google does not like expired domains especially after the new update. I've read this article at search engine journal. If that 100% true, what's written then probably may be one of the reasons.
    • [1] reply
    • What do you mean for "don't like"?
      Google is becoming very boring, he don't like paid links, paid content and now expired domains.

      All the major companies buy every day links and google know that but he have to say every time that if you buy links you will be penalized.
Join the discussion

Next Topics on Trending Feed