Acquired domain with 5 million back links – what now?
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fb3003
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i am a bit surprised that a user who is asking on BHW about such a domain, came across a clean domain.
if the domain is truly worth something, someone like you would not been able to buy it.
Rollfic
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Moz and its spam score both are shit.
Pretty sure it's a spammed domain as a domain with 5 million backlinks is never ever clean. That is from my limited knowledge.
Also DR can be manipulated.
- Apr 25, 2014
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Check out a few things first:
- Check the quality of those backlinks. You're looking for niche relevancy, foreign links, or clearly spammy links.
- Check the WayBackMachine previous history of the domain. You want to see what content was previously on the domain before you bought, even years prior.
- Check the quality of those backlinks. You're looking for niche relevancy, foreign links, or clearly spammy links.
- Check the WayBackMachine previous history of the domain. You want to see what content was previously on the domain before you bought, even years prior.
Thr33
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Okay, thanks for the advice.
Is there somewhere else I can calculate a spam score?
Let’s say it’s relatively clean, and I put up some content and start ranking – how do I actually make money? Adsense? Or is there something better people are doing nowadays? Affiliate?
Is there somewhere else I can calculate a spam score?
Let’s say it’s relatively clean, and I put up some content and start ranking – how do I actually make money? Adsense? Or is there something better people are doing nowadays? Affiliate?
- Jul 11, 2013
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Backlink profile manual audit: Look at the ref Doms & anchors.
5milln bl from how many ref Doms.
Too many links from individual Doms or not.
Check Anchor text diversity
Wayback history is it clean, has this been used as pbn or redirect?
When did it expire and are any pages indexed?
Check how many of those bl are active.
Topical relevance of the red Doms.
varun barve
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Now head over to the google disavow tool.
fb3003
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go to https://ahrefs.com/backlink-checker and let us know the top 5 domains that are ranking to this site that you just got.
AuraMarketing
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PM the link and I'll check it for you. You already own it so sharing might not be an issue.
Thr33
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Sorry, I’ve signed an NDA
fb3003
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you got a spammed domain. good luck.
what do you mean you signed an NDA? you purchased a domain and you signed a non-disclosure agreement!? for what?!
Thr33
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I’m not the one who acquired the domain personally, I’ve been assigned to work on it, hence the NDA
fb3003
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here is a quick test to see if it is good or not; at minimum as a backlink.
Pick a keyword, go to page 7+ and pick a page that you can tell the site owner is not doing any seo. create a backlink from the homepage of that domain to this page. wait for few weeks and see the result.
you can also 301 the domain and do the same test.
let us know how it goes.
- May 18, 2014
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You didn't get lucky. If it were worth anything, no one would let that domain expire in the first place. Domainers would bid against each other to death for a domain like that. If it was expired with that many links then it's spammed to death. Move on.
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How much you acquires it for? $100 ?