Reviving old website archive.org

[Nickkesss]

Hi BHW,

I recently bought a old expired domain with good stats and content from it. The website design is very poor and I want to build a new fresh website from it. Is there any way to see the old structered link structure to keep the link juice? Thanks alot!

 

[Frenzy29]

Hi BHW,

I recently bought a old expired domain with good stats and content from it. The website design is very poor and I want to build a new fresh website from it. Is there any way to see the old structered link structure to keep the link juice? Thanks alot!

You can redirect all 404 pages to homepage and forget about old structure

 

[SirLouen]

Using a tool like Ahrefs, you can check which sites are already receiving good incoming links
For those, create specific content trying to replicate the original content.
The rest 301 redirect to home.
Also I recommend to use a analyitics tracker (not Google Analytics if you are building a PBN) to see if people are accessing to certain parts of the web, an redirect them to a similar content

Just doing a full 301 wont do much good to your site.

 

[Nickkesss]

Thanks for the awnse

You can redirect all 404 pages to homepage and forget about old structure

Thanks alot for your replys! What is the best way to do this?

 

[Frenzy29]

It depends on what platform you use. If you use Wordpress there are few plugins to do this:

Link Juice Keeper
Backlinks Saver

If you keep the website with same type of content you don't have to redirect page by page to related content. Since the website will not change it's topic.

 

[Sudipta kar]

Then design it as like you want. The design has no link with the site's old structured link structure and link juice. Just do not change the content too much.