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February 22, 2008
If and when we can find a domain name with Page Rank that can be developed into a niche store, what is the difference in starting a new domain name?? Can we expect more traffic from search engines?? We will still have to develop like a new page, and without enough traffic continuing, will it not drop pr at next Google update?? Any answers will help me and maybe others… Otis
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Otis -
Great question that actually deserves a post of its own, which I will write over the weekend. For the short term however, expired domains are both good and bad!
Good - IF you can find a domain that had good history and is included in the search indexes (Google, Yahoo, etc) you will be fine! I spend alot of time at the Domain Name Forum and have found several gems for only the cost of registration! These domains can be several years old, have google PR, and a history of inbound links from other websites!
DNForum has several forum sections with domain owners selling all levels of domains and websites. I have seen prices start on domains at 1.00 for domains that are not going to be renewed and the owner just wants out of it, up to many thousands of dollars for complete websites with high volume traffic and a visitor base already earning money!
Now for the bad…
If the domain was either banned from a search engine or was used for a MFA (Made for Adsense) site that is only listed in the google supplimental cache, you will have no luck with it! I recently helped a fellow BANS user on a site that was apparently picked up from a name drop. The domain was used ONLY as a redirect to another domain and thus got no love at all from search engines. It was a bad buying decision and he would have been better off starting fresh.
In regard to PR, yes, the site may lose ALL PR on the next toolbar update. (Google Toolbar is not the be-all, end all of PR, just a quick measure, at a glance) BUT… as you know, I have a semi popular site that is not BANS. The site gets more than 2500 unique visitors each day and serves more than 10,000 pages a day to viewers. It has had a PR4 for 3.5 years and on the last PR update, the toolbar now says PR0. The site still gets those visitors with no drop in traffic at all… So, while PR is important, it should not be the only thing used to measure whether a domain is good or bad.
I will write an indepth post this weekend…
Great question!
Mark
Thanks Mark for the answer I know how to check some of the backlink info but not the dropped domain part, I will wait til you do the post and see if I understand more then. I have found some domains with PR for sale and was thinking about buying and did not want to make a bad decision. Thanks
Hi Mark,
How can you look into the history of how a Domain name was used?
Randy
this tool will help with fake PR http://www.domainpagerank.com/
this tool will help with what the archive has about what the website looked like in the past if they have an archive on it http://www.archive.org/index.php .The fake tool is really useful to me , some of the listings of domains with pr for sale look too good to be true and they sometimes are. Hope this helps….