Fishy expired domain?

dikkill

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Jul 27, 2011

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• Apr 4, 2014

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I came trough a PR2 expired domain name, the pr is good and the domain is relevant to my niche. But the other moz.com metrics like PA,DA and so on are all 1 and 0. I have checked the backlink profile and there were no backlinks at all. How come it has a PR of 2?

 

Aty

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Jan 27, 2011

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• Apr 4, 2014

• #2

Just because a domain has PR doesn't mean it's valuable. A solid backlink profile is perhaps the most important thing.

 

seocrab

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May 2, 2013

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• Apr 4, 2014

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PR is not just linked to backlinks, it depends on site content too. Also, it's possible that the site was 301'd to another domain and picked up a bit of PR that way. Look on archive.org and google "info:site.com" to find out.

 

SEO_Alchemy

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Sep 8, 2012

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• Apr 4, 2014

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Look on archive.org and google "info:site.com" to find out.

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exactly. If there were any dodgy redirects in the past, PR could have struck around, and it's best to avoid this site all together.