[Is it true?] When I buy expired domain?
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heart4hack
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Backlinks will remain untill the website keep the link.. no need to do anything
David719
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Thank you. So I must keep the same url? Let´s say : expired domain has a great backlink in this url = www.expiredomains.com/thebestdishwasher.....so When I buy this expired domain and I will want to keep backlink need I create the same url?
- May 10, 2012
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Thank you. So I must keep the same url? Let´s say : expired domain has a great backlink in this url = www.expiredomains.com/thebestdishwasher.....so When I buy this expired domain and I will want to keep backlink need I create the same url?
That, or redirect that old URL to a new one.
Nildev Vaghela
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also, relevancy of new URL & content might need to be maintained.
David719
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Thank you everyone, because I read this post so I am confused :/ ...
Google's View
You need to try and think like Google. So ask yourself:
Google will treat a new registration as a new domain; it will have zero authority and zero backlinks. (https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/guide-how-to-use-expired-domains-effectively.1223248/)
Google's View
You need to try and think like Google. So ask yourself:
- How does Google view a domain that has previously expired?
- Does it credit it's previous backlinks and authority to the domain just because you register it again?
Google will treat a new registration as a new domain; it will have zero authority and zero backlinks. (https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/guide-how-to-use-expired-domains-effectively.1223248/)
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First you should try to think (at all) in the first place before you try to look smart and all revolutionary.
New registrations are not treated like new domains. That would pretty much break the internet.
If they were, PBNs would never work and they have been one of the main SEO tactics for over a decade.
Did you know, that even most auction domains have to drop first (expire), even if for a half a second, in order to be caught and the sold on auctions? Oh well, half a second of expiry, the domain is worthless now... not.
Whatever points to a domain, however long has it been offline, adds to its power. You might have to recreate URLs, you might have to do redirects, it might take a while for it to kick in, but it's there.
This same crap about how the domains lose power after expiry has been shared all over the forum for years. Pointlessly.
It just confuses newbies, to whom I have to explain everything from the ground up, because they "read somewhere" and "someone said", that "this" and "that" and "conspiracy" and "google omnipotent" bla bla.
Yes, it pisses me off if you haven't noticed.
Kaine
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I tend to agree with you, but I think you also have to try to understand what seems to make the most sense (like Google employees I imagine).
A domain that at one point had a good reputation, good content and traffic will leave a kind of trace, it is not very different from a brand image.
That it has not been registered for a while does not change much, a fan might have wanted to take it back in hand for example.
I will even go further and this only concerns me, a domain like the one I mentioned, even if it only has one backlink (but powerful) should rank better than many others more interesting at the first try of eye.
We would have to look more at semantic power measures to find this kind of domain.
I do not know if there is some sort of archive containing the old Google ranking of sites for a request.
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