Buying Expired Domains with Backlinks

What will happen to the site?

  • The site will regain the same rank after a while

    Votes: 11 33.3%

  • The site will get some credit from the existing links

    Votes: 17 51.5%

  • The site will get no credit from the links and would be no different than registering a new domain

    Votes: 2 6.1%

  • The site will be penalised and will be tougher to rank than a new domain

    Votes: 1 3.0%

  • What will happen will depend on another factor not described

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • None of the above

    Votes: 2 6.1%
  • Total voters
    33
spitfire

spitfire

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Here is something I have been puzzling over for a while. I'd be interested in people's experiences.

Domain xyz.com ranks in the number one spot on Google for "blue widgets". (high competition keyword)

Looking at the site's backlinks you see a lot of inlinks with "blue widgets" and related terms in the anchor and surrounding text and you credit this for the high ranking.

The domain goes through the redemption and pending delete status and you buy the name a few days later on snapnames for $60

Google has crawled the site during the redemption period and the site has dropped from the index and no longer ranks.

Let's assume the following once you buy the name:
1. You set registant information the same as the previous domain owner
2. You pull the sites content from the archive and try to recreate the previous site structure
3. You submit a reinclusion request via Webmaster Tools (optional)

Other things being equal, which of the poll options is likely to happen?

I'd like to hear if anyone has experience of this as I have found mixed results.

Also, how would things change if you were to hand register the dropped domain 6 months or a year later and do the same.


SE land/Matt Cutts on this (09):

Do Links From Expired Domains Count With Google?
 


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Never expected this (adwords). Its a good one. I havent used adwords but have signed in. Ooff. I am safe anyway. Hehe

:)
 
Interesting to see there is no consensus...

I have bought domains previously with relevant backlinks and found them to rank well. However, it is very hard to say what if any effect the links had as I added links and optimised the content.

Anyone have any examples where the exisiting links definitely did or didn't have an effect?
 
It's kind of a gray area. Back in the day, the backlinks definitely did count. Then a few years ago it went 180 and they definitely didn't count. From what people tell me now, they SOMETIMES count.

They're not supposed to, but I don't think Google is all that concerned with it anymore. When they started dropping backlinks on expiration, we were abusing the shit out of it, ranking for porn terms on any old expired domain with PR.
 
I think they get a little credit, I'd be surprised if google completely deindexed you either. It might have detected that something was wrong, but in similar scenarios putting content back up fixed the problem quickly. The existing backlinks told google to keep spidering the site.

gtownfunk
 
Get it and 301 that shit, then build links to your money site, or you can just keep building links to the aged domain.

Don't add to GWT.

or just repurpose it.
 
Interesting. But waste of money.
$60 can get you a domain with some decent backlinks and in a niche that can make more money. Perhaps.

If you are keen on it, I see Google disregarding all other backlinks. So your site being resubmitted back to the big G means that G will have to get back all the links they disregarded.

Now, if you ask me, one of the reasons Domains go into redemption is for the Registrar to make money off the lazyass registrants that dont know how to renew and two, give SE a chance to ensure the site does not resolve. This in turn would give ICANN the opportunity to sell the domain as brand new and not used.

If you backorder with Snapnames, how are you gonna make sure that you are in the first batch pool?
 
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