High DA News Site Link from Dead Domain 301 Redirect to Your Main Website

What's your experience on acquiring a do-follow dead domain link, on an indexed several-year-old article, from a high DA reputable news site, 301 redirected to a money site? The article and the anchor were totally unrelated to your niche. Unrelated 3rd party register hosting the site, different IP than my main site. Was told after 24-months, I can get domains transferred to another host and renew after expire. Since I don't own or control the domain I do understand the risk to that.

Any positive or negative effects on your site?
Any downside or upside if you acquired multiples of these?
Did your DA go up? Trust and authority pass through?
Other than the control, Any risks?

Looking for your experience with this.

Thanks for your comments in advance

oh well... I was hoping someone would comment...

There is no exact answer to this.

But for 301 redirect to be effective, the money site has to be relevant to the linking site.

Any positive or negative effects on your site?

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If you are lucky, you may see a small positive effect. Negative, mostly likely not because google will just ignore the link in the worst case

Any downside or upside if you acquired multiples of these?

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The risks of downside increases if google algorithm detects multiple 301 redirected irrelevant links

Did your DA go up? Trust and authority pass through?

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DA is a third party metric and has no role in googles algorithm. One link isnt enough to pass authority and trust, it's a site wide factor

SeoWrecker said:

But for 301 redirect to be effective, the money site has to be relevant to the linking site.

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what is your thought if it was from the top major news sites? If the anchor and articles are unrelated to the site niche.

FinishLine said:

what is your thought if it was from the top major news sites? If the anchor and articles are unrelated to the site niche.

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The first factor google looks for during 301 redirection is relevancy. The reason 301 exists is to migrate user to the right page. If the links are totally irrelevant I am not sure how it may help. You are going to see more luck migrating that news site to another news site than an unrelated domain.

Since you said, the niche is totally unrelated, maybe you will notice a small effect in the rankings due to its authority. Since you say it's a big site, maybe it is worth a try, if it doesn't work out well. you can cancel the redirect.

Let us know how it goes.