OK so my business niche is IT/computer/technology related and i have put budget aside to build my own PBN. Having ready many guides and articles on the do's and dont's and best practices i have a firm grip on what needs to be done but i'm finding it really difficult to purchase expired PR 3,4,5 domains in godaddy auction for the "guide price" that i see others saying they obtain their domains for their PBN on these forums (PR3s and 4s for less that $100 a go)... within reason im happy to pay the money for a quality domain but i need to justify it and know im not paying over the odds. My attitude is that i would much prefer to have 10 quality domains and have to only maintain the ongoing upkeep and cost of these than say 30 medium quality domains and pay three fold on the ongoing costs.
my steps to find and vet my domains are as follows:
1. Login on expireddomains.net and filter domains with >PR3 >30DA remove unsure, fake and -1 PR and hit go (also do the same with listings on dmoz as a separate search). each morning i will also check "added in the last 24 hrs" to see what new domains have been added each day that fit my criteria.
2. Look at each domain and find ones that meet my niche and also are of quality name for example sweetredapples.com i would consider a good name over cheap-sweet-red-apples.com (to long and spammy).
3. I would check the PR to ensure it isn't fake by doing info:domainname.com, also check it using a fake pr checker, check the whois of the domain and check waybackmachine to ensure no recent 301 redirects have been in place and to also to see what the site was all about months/years ago.
4. Once i have narrowed down further i would take the domains and check their backlinks in aherfs. I try to ensure that the anchors are in my niche or at least semi related and most of all something i am interested in writing about and can change the topic to make the potential blogsite related to my niche. I also check for all site wide links, amount of ********/nofollow etc etc.
5. I then add these domains that i wish to purchase to my watch list in godaddy.
there are many of pr3/4 sites that are in much niche that are added each week that i would like to purchase but when i look deeply into them and their links it is garbage and it confuses me how it even got to such page rank. What i am finding in that the domains i do want to purchase go for prices that are ridiculous.
here is an example, crshare.com which is a PR4 and went for ~$910 or so. These kind of prices for pr3 and 4 have been occurring several times for my chosen domains that i wish to bid on and i feel im doing something wrong to not be able to purchase in the regions of what others manage get theirs for...
I appreciate that the above example is a desirable URL with some nice backlinks but i am finding that pr3 and 4 domains with very weak-average names and link profiles are going for a lot more than i would consider worth it...
I would also like to add that i am quite picky when it comes to relevance also. for example if my niche is red apples i would look for sites related to green apples, sour apples, pine apples, fruits - hell just food in general will do. But i would not go much further than that in the way or relevance. I want to maintain sites that I will have an interest in upkeeping and writing content for. I also try to incorporate the niche of the original domain and backlink anchor in the new content and in the anchors i will point back to my site in the future (thus keeping it natural and relevant).
advice and comments welcome.
cheers,
mike
my steps to find and vet my domains are as follows:
1. Login on expireddomains.net and filter domains with >PR3 >30DA remove unsure, fake and -1 PR and hit go (also do the same with listings on dmoz as a separate search). each morning i will also check "added in the last 24 hrs" to see what new domains have been added each day that fit my criteria.
2. Look at each domain and find ones that meet my niche and also are of quality name for example sweetredapples.com i would consider a good name over cheap-sweet-red-apples.com (to long and spammy).
3. I would check the PR to ensure it isn't fake by doing info:domainname.com, also check it using a fake pr checker, check the whois of the domain and check waybackmachine to ensure no recent 301 redirects have been in place and to also to see what the site was all about months/years ago.
4. Once i have narrowed down further i would take the domains and check their backlinks in aherfs. I try to ensure that the anchors are in my niche or at least semi related and most of all something i am interested in writing about and can change the topic to make the potential blogsite related to my niche. I also check for all site wide links, amount of ********/nofollow etc etc.
5. I then add these domains that i wish to purchase to my watch list in godaddy.
there are many of pr3/4 sites that are in much niche that are added each week that i would like to purchase but when i look deeply into them and their links it is garbage and it confuses me how it even got to such page rank. What i am finding in that the domains i do want to purchase go for prices that are ridiculous.
here is an example, crshare.com which is a PR4 and went for ~$910 or so. These kind of prices for pr3 and 4 have been occurring several times for my chosen domains that i wish to bid on and i feel im doing something wrong to not be able to purchase in the regions of what others manage get theirs for...
I appreciate that the above example is a desirable URL with some nice backlinks but i am finding that pr3 and 4 domains with very weak-average names and link profiles are going for a lot more than i would consider worth it...
I would also like to add that i am quite picky when it comes to relevance also. for example if my niche is red apples i would look for sites related to green apples, sour apples, pine apples, fruits - hell just food in general will do. But i would not go much further than that in the way or relevance. I want to maintain sites that I will have an interest in upkeeping and writing content for. I also try to incorporate the niche of the original domain and backlink anchor in the new content and in the anchors i will point back to my site in the future (thus keeping it natural and relevant).
advice and comments welcome.
cheers,
mike