Hi,
When starting a new website, the first question regards the domain name. For SEO purpose, a good idea is to buy an old domain, with backlinks and PR.
I bought some of these domains at DP, looking at the following points:
* checkpagerank.net should consider it as valid PR
* yahoo explorer should show interesting backlinks, meaning: widespread (different websites linking to), autoritative (natural PR websites, .edu), supposed to remain (the author of the linking website won't care about the link, mostly in the following cases: website is archived, linking page is in an archive section of the website, link is just another link in a link list)
* whois records field 'Created on' shows an old date (avoid fake dropped domains)
* the domain name (with and without www) point to a page or better a parking page
* the Internet Archive shows the real website obtaining PR, but NOT recently (at least 6 monts, the delay of some PR updates). In other words, if the website is down from 6+ months and the parked page got PR and backlinks, it's a good point
* check that the domain is NOT banned within Adsense (try with the Adsense Preview Tool)
After buying a PR domain, I:
* keep the whois records unchanged (but email)
* set up a website with the cached pages from google, adding also a navigation between the cached pages
* add links from the cached pages to new pages, in the niche related to the backlinks
* submit a sitemap for the cached pages
Some points I want to discuss:
1. about the "dropped domain issue"
The domain with is not renewed by the owner enter a certain lifecycle. I always wondered why some domain graber from pool.com (or the 2 other websites) could get domains avoiding the dropped status.
I hardly found the possibly answer at:
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where they says:
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The domain is guaranteed to be captured by the drop catcher because it never actually drops (becomes available for registration), it simply moves from one registrar account to another and has another year added to its renewal (if someone bids and wins the auction).
Most of the world's largest registrars now push all their domains to auction prior to dropping them. While most don't fetch any bids (and are later dropped as part of the regular drop process), some do and are immediately pushed to the new owner.
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So in other words, it seems that some registrars don't follow the normal domain lifecycle and will cheat the whois database doing as the previously owner had renewed and updates his whois records?
2. What did you experienced with the PR update after buying a valid PR domain and carrefully building a new website?
When starting a new website, the first question regards the domain name. For SEO purpose, a good idea is to buy an old domain, with backlinks and PR.
I bought some of these domains at DP, looking at the following points:
* checkpagerank.net should consider it as valid PR
* yahoo explorer should show interesting backlinks, meaning: widespread (different websites linking to), autoritative (natural PR websites, .edu), supposed to remain (the author of the linking website won't care about the link, mostly in the following cases: website is archived, linking page is in an archive section of the website, link is just another link in a link list)
* whois records field 'Created on' shows an old date (avoid fake dropped domains)
* the domain name (with and without www) point to a page or better a parking page
* the Internet Archive shows the real website obtaining PR, but NOT recently (at least 6 monts, the delay of some PR updates). In other words, if the website is down from 6+ months and the parked page got PR and backlinks, it's a good point
* check that the domain is NOT banned within Adsense (try with the Adsense Preview Tool)
After buying a PR domain, I:
* keep the whois records unchanged (but email)
* set up a website with the cached pages from google, adding also a navigation between the cached pages
* add links from the cached pages to new pages, in the niche related to the backlinks
* submit a sitemap for the cached pages
Some points I want to discuss:
1. about the "dropped domain issue"
The domain with is not renewed by the owner enter a certain lifecycle. I always wondered why some domain graber from pool.com (or the 2 other websites) could get domains avoiding the dropped status.
I hardly found the possibly answer at:
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.premiumdrops.com/terms.html">http://www.premiumdrops.com/terms.html</a><!-- m -->
where they says:
-----
The domain is guaranteed to be captured by the drop catcher because it never actually drops (becomes available for registration), it simply moves from one registrar account to another and has another year added to its renewal (if someone bids and wins the auction).
Most of the world's largest registrars now push all their domains to auction prior to dropping them. While most don't fetch any bids (and are later dropped as part of the regular drop process), some do and are immediately pushed to the new owner.
----
So in other words, it seems that some registrars don't follow the normal domain lifecycle and will cheat the whois database doing as the previously owner had renewed and updates his whois records?
2. What did you experienced with the PR update after buying a valid PR domain and carrefully building a new website?