[graham23s]

Hi Guys,

Just wondering if anyone can answer this one for me before i wasted time trying it out lol, some one on another forum wrote a quick ranking tutorial and the key was to buy aged deleted non dropped domains then 301 to your brand new site, supposidly google transfers age to the new (so they were saying) then pretty much just use ALN type links to rank for your keywords pretty fast, but has anyone saw any proof of this? seems a little to good to be true.

cheers guys

Graham

[Blah Blah Blah]

It doesn't pass "age" to the new site, but it does pass the authority it held to the new site.

[MattW]

Hi,

It isn't something I have personally tried (yet) but it is considered a great method to boost sites, these kind of tactics are usually used in ultra competetive niches. It's also difficult to reverse engineer 301 links like that, not impossible but difficult

[graham23s]

Hi Guys,

Ah i see, so it would treat the "new domain" as if it had the authority of the "aged domain", you would think most people would be doing this as standard when setting up a new domain (infact possibly they are, it's just me that's late to the party )

I know this is a hard one but, how long would it take before google recognises the authority of the "new domain" just incase i hit it to hard when it's still new in google eyes.

cheers guys

Graham

[Fishingman1]

yes its pretty standard practice .
Passes link juice.
New sites it works well on.
It takes as long as G takes to follow the link.
Normally pretty quick.
Don't go over the top, and back link the new site also.

[richbell20]

Glad I came across this topic, as I was considering doing the same thing. I have another question though. I'm about to enter the hotel niche, and I have my eyes on a great domain for branding but it's going to cost me $2,300.

Now, the domain is 7 years old, one owner, never dropped, but has no backlink profile at all and has probably just sat as a parked page the whole time.

I dont want to blow $2k on the domain straight away and then have to spend thousands on links to get it ranking, so i was planning on buying a nice pr6 domain, and getting that ranking for my hotel related keyword. Once it was ranked i'd 301 it and then continue with the hotel related link building.

Is this the best way to do it?

Is it worth paying the premium for a high pr domain that already has inbound links (albeit with the wrong anchor text) vs just an aged domain

Once I have the aged / high pr domain, should i build my hotel related links and get that site indexed and settled in the serps before 301'ing, or am I better off just 301'ing the aged domain right away and get on with building the links to the new domain.

or... is it safe to just pay the $2k for the awesome domain, knowing that it has great age (but no authority) and start the links from scratch.

Hope I havent confused everyone here, but it's been spinning around in my head for the last 3 days and I would love for the definitive answer (if one exists!)

Many thanks,

Richard

[Fixer]

Richard, domains are only worth what you think they are worth. If the domain has just been parked my question would be is it indexed by G and does it have an archive on archive.org? The reason I ask is that age is generally relative to the date it was first cached by G. If it is just parked and never used then essentially it will be treated as a new domain.

If you really like the domain name and it is worth this amount to you then go for it.

Dependant on the above then i would consider buying the PR6 domain. Yes it is a good idea to repurpose it, build some links to get the newer version cashed and then redirect it. Plus the links you build will pass some of the anchor relevant juice through to the other site too.