Found this PR4 is it good for my PBN or not?

9 years ago

Have you actually looked at the linking pages themselves? This should always be you first action.

If you do then you'll see that these are most certainly NOT natural backlinks despite the promising metrics.

Most of the sites linking to this domain seem to be using dodgy tactics - they setup what look to be normal blogs but then if you hover over the "recent posts" or "archives" links, you'll see that they are all external links.

Most of the links I can see for this domain seem to have the anchor text "February" as it is one of the "Archive" links.

So this domain, despite it's metrics, is not worth buying in my honest opinion. The backlinks are clearly in control of someone else and they are as far from natural as you could wish to get.

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bonesaj

9 years ago

Thanks alot for your reply Steve, from what your saying that they are in control of the links that means it could potentially lose its link juice overnight if they decide to take it down!

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PBScott 9 years ago

All do follow links, no nofollow seems strange to me.

Only 4 linking C blocks also

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Steve Waller

9 years ago

Originally Posted by bonesaj

Thanks alot for your reply Steve, from what your saying that they are in control of the links that means it could potentially lose its link juice overnight if they decide to take it down!

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Regardless of whether they take the links down (which they almost certainly will), they are not natural so why would you want to buy the domain?

I wouldn't be surprised if it had some sort of penalty already.

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nettiapina

9 years ago

The backlink profile doesn't look that promising as was already said. You'd be picking the domain after someone used it as a part of link network. It might have been a legit site couple of years ago, but has been used for about the same purpose you were planning to use it for.

Also, I don't believe the front page is an actual PR4 at the moment.

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yukon

Banned 9 years ago

Agreed, it's doubtful those links will stick. The link profile looks like paid links which are either a setup to hose an auction buyer or the paid links just haven't expired yet (1 month, 1 year, etc...). If it's paid links that haven't expired yet something is wrong with the domain.

The fact that Wayback was blocked is also a red flag, most legit webmasters don't care about blocking Wayback. What are they hiding, old PR redirects?

I don't know what the auction price is for that domain but you could find similar same niche PR link profiles that are legit by running Scrapebox with some SERP footprints & end up costing $10 for domain renewal.

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jc5090

9 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

Agreed, it's doubtful those links will stick. The link profile looks like paid links which are either a setup to hose an auction buyer or the paid links just haven't expired yet (1 month, 1 year, etc...). If it's paid links that haven't expired yet something is wrong with the domain.

The fact that Wayback was blocked is also a red flag, most legit webmasters don't care about blocking Wayback. What are they hiding, old PR redirects?

I don't know what the auction price is for that domain but you could find similar same niche PR link profiles that are legit by running Scrapebox with some SERP footprints & end up costing $10 for domain renewal.

[yukon] - could you explain how to use "Scrapebox with some SERP footprints & end up costing $10 for a domain renewal" method of finding domains for a PBN? Or, could you direct me to some source that explains this process?

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KenL

9 years ago

Over 26,400 backlinks from only 163 referring domains indicates SPAM and lots of it.

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tech84

9 years ago

most of the backlinks looks like from link farms, and im 99.99% sure these would be removed once this domain is sold. And if not, expect a unnatural link penalty from it.

plus, most of the domains are already de-indexed. that's a dud right there.

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Mike Anthony

9 years ago

To answer your question - it doesn't matter how many links and the quality of them. The minute you post a potential PBN domain on a public forum the answer is no not anymore

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domainingin 9 years ago

Exactly, but it was anyway nothing to use in a PBN
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nettiapina

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Mike Anthony

To answer your question - it doesn't matter how many links and the quality of them. The minute you post a potential PBN domain on a public forum the answer is no not anymore

You're right. However, posting it here and letting others tear it apart is a good learning experience, even if the domain is now even slightly more useless than it was before.

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twilightofidols

9 years ago

There's a reason no one has bid on it yet.

It's possible those links were paid for, or placed on a network owned by the individual who put that domain up for auction in the first place.

I bet when that domain is picked up, all those links are to the site are going to drop. As far as I can see all the backlinks are artificial. I would avoid this domain like the plague.

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marco12345 9 years ago

HERE, there is the only solution:

Open Site Explorer

This domain is a joke, the major of all the backlinks come from
the home page of a Wordpress Blog that contains ALWAYS in the title
"My Wordpress Blog".

The owner of this domain has created a network for transfer the pagerank to shitty domains and sell them for XXXX $.

Afther that, he will remove all the backlinks and your pagerank will drop to 0.

Lesson earned for you.
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bonesaj

9 years ago

Hahaha! appreciate all the comments guys,

I had no chance of picking the domain up anyway because if it was good someone else would have after this post but since its complete crap it doesnt matter