Comments on: Google PageRank, Revisited

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Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:38:02 +0000

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By: Firepro

Firepro — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:24:30 +0000

I think the PR will go to 0 after the domain has been deleted. However, if later someone buy it, wait for few months, I think the PR will go up again.Why ? because if there are many inbound links to this re-register domain, Google may think it is good website and give credit to it because there are many links to this domain

By: Online Store Marketing

Online Store Marketing — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:33:42 +0000

Janet,

It,s me again, once again accidentally stumbling across one of your posts (via Google).

I am not sure I agree with the requirement that you need to keep the site thematically similar. I can show you otherwise.

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By: Carolina Panthers Blog

Carolina Panthers Blog — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:55:09 +0000

I would definitely say that Pagerank still has a great impact on rankings in Google. Say two pages were equally SEO-ized, but one had a higher PR than the other. The site with the higher PR would win out 9 times out of 10. Carolina Panthers Blog's last blog post..Carolina Panthers Store

By: Tom At The Home Business Archive

Tom At The Home Business Archive — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:31:28 +0000

Is pagerank so important these days as it was before? I have seen blogs with 0/10 pagerank having top results for extremely popular search phrases. Tom At The Home Business Archive's last blog post..How To Use Twitter To Market Your Services Or Products

By: Jayson

Jayson — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:55:12 +0000

Thanks for the post and these tips. I’ve always read that transferring a domain is tricky.

Alot of people always talk bad about PR??? I think we all know that it’s a great tool available to us. There is a lot that PageRank does for a website and it’s unfortunate that so many people are jumping on the screw PageRank bandwagon. It’s definitely not the most important thing but a high PageRank means a lot and allows your website to do so much more.

By: Car dealer

Car dealer — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 13:20:08 +0000

Page rank is only one of the factor among hundreds factors in google algorithm. I think it sholud not be too emphasize….

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:36:33 +0000

I agree with Robert. As hard as it may be for us to accept it’s not always about search. Links are also valuable for the direct traffic they send and if you buy an old domain with a lot of links pointing to it you’ll get traffic.

The traffic may not be from Google at first, but there can still be traffic.

By: Janet Meiners

Janet Meiners — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:58:18 +0000

Actually PageRank is only part of the story. It’s credit for backlinks that matter (which is part of PageRank). The more relevant links from quality sites the better your placement in Google.
-Janet

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:55:44 +0000

I’m still stumped that so many think that a domain or even a whole website is only worth as much as it’s PR. Once again… it’s the traffic that a site generates that really proves it’s worth. If a domain name expired or not is relevant to your business then it is valuable. The PR is just a nice collection of green pixels

By: dowload youtube

dowload youtube — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:54:30 +0000

I think expired domain still useful, at least for yahoo.com

By: Brian Chappell

Brian Chappell — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:03:05 +0000

@lodispoto

“but don’t update your registry.”

Have you tested this? I am curious if it really keeps them at bay like you say it does.

By: GoWFB

GoWFB — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:59:44 +0000

Thanks for those tips. This is what i like about this site: it offers a wealth of news, information and knowledgeable insights so that it has become a must visit for me everyday.

By: Janet Meiners

Janet Meiners — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:36:51 +0000

@Burgo,
Thanks for the catch.
Janet

By: Burgo

Burgo — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:56:23 +0000

Hey Janet,
Just a quick note to let you know the last link (be sure the domain has not expired) is incorrect…

By: Michael Lodispoto

Michael Lodispoto — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:25:21 +0000

Many people buy expired domains not for any pagerank but for the traffic that exists. There are huge businesses that then send that traffic to the websites that pay them for those visitors. The traffic is of better quality than those pop up companies they say, but who knows. I don’t use them . You can see many by just searching term expired domain traffic. It made quite a few people wealthy.
If you do buy an expired domain just make arrangements to transfer ownership but don’t update your registry. Google looks at the updated registries. of course if you change the layout of the site search engines will also change your listings but I’m assuming you keep things the way they are when you bought the domain.

By: Perde

Perde — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:53:35 +0000

These days buying an expired domain is mainly meant to fool the newbies. These guys see the toolbar PR and pay for links thinking it’s the recent value, while PR is actualy dynamic.

By: Selbourne Designing

Selbourne Designing — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 04:51:31 +0000

If you think that a particular expired domains is a good business name, then go for it. The page rank would not last as Google would have re-set this site and re-index due to new sets of pages.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:02:00 +0000

I just wonder if you buy an expired domain, and make a good quality site would Google still penalize you because your domain was once expired?

By: Matik

Matik — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:13:33 +0000

Great tips.. And dropped domains are big problems today in various marketplaces