Here's My No Bull, Honest Review
As some may know from my previous reviews, I don't sugar coat things. I focus on the usefulness of the service for my intended goals and report on it. With that said, here's my no-bull, honest review of Cosmos Names.
The Service
I contacted Hardcorebiker through skype to ask a few questions about the service. He was able to meet my requirements and showed me a few samples. I decided to purchase a 5 pack to give it a shot.
Within 8 days (total) he delivered my report with 7 domains to chose from. My project took a little longer than typical due to my requirements so turnaround time was actual very reasonable.
The report was itself pretty insightful but what was even better was that he had included links to the last good Archive.org snapshot as well as a download link for the AHrefs and MajesticSEo reports - this in and of itself is a huge value as I'll explain in more detail shortly.
I did a little extra research on my own for all the domains to narrow down my options from 7 to 5. I found that most of the domains did have very nice backlink profiles. While none of the domains had PR, they were all well aged having been indexed by Google many years back. They also had many aged links. Using scrapebox I quickly found the PA for all incoming links (the report only included DA which isn't very helpful) and began making comparisons.
My criteria for selecting 5 domains was based on original Index Date, Age of Backlinks, Number of Unique High PA Backlinks and an Archive.org snapshot. Keep in mind my intention are to use these domains for a niche specific PBN so your criteria may very well be different.
Of the seven domains I received, four had really strong backlink profiles with many links from big names like CBS, Forbes, New York Times, etc. Two other domains had decent backlinks, still some from big name sites but also lots of links from the same domain and then many from low PA sites. Still not bad though. One domain was below my threshold for criteria - it still had a few strong links but didn't meet other criteria.
Once I selected which domains I wanted they were pushed into my accounts within 24 hours WITH whois privacy... another bonus!
So for my order I ended up with 4 awesome domains and 1 pretty good one. Not bad for what I paid, not bad at all. I have a good idea of how he is finding and analyzing these domains and honestly, the cost for the subscriptions plus the time involved makes this a no-brainer to outsource.
How Will I Use These?
I will now rebuild the sites that were on these domains using as much of the original content and media as I can from Archive.org. Of course I will add in my own twist to make the sites a bit more relevant to my specific topic.
Next, I will use the included Ahref and MJSEO reports to find all the important internal links and ensure that those pages are either rebuilt with the same URL or redirected to the homepage so that lovely link juice gets captured.
Finally, I will start pinging all the old links to get Google to reindex all pages of these domains. Since they are of solid age and have solid links, it shouldn't take much to get the entire site indexed again without it appearing suspicious.
What Now?
Once I have completed the rebuild and reindexing, I will start pointing links at a test target and see what results I get. At that point I will know whether this strategy is going to work, but I'm sure it will.
Obviously there are other strategies for these domains as well. You could use a nice aged domain to build a new site, avoiding the dreaded Google sandbox. You could redirect the domain to a site you own and pink all the external links, pumping up your authority overnight. Or you could just redirect a single URL from the domain to one of your sites - instant link from a highly trusted source.
Suggestions for Hardcorebiker
If possible, I'd like to see PA of each external link on the main report. DA isn't too helpful because of 1) subdomans and 2) deep links.
Overall Thoughts?
If my strategy works as planned, Mr. Biker and I have a lot of talking to do. Put it this way, HardcoreBiker's post and Skype are now bookmarked and favorited on my PC.