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Originally Posted by baddog
Well, since the PR is gained from back links, you will want the content to pretty well match the anchor text from those backlinks. Then it should be okay.
Probably won't increase for a while since it is new content, but should not drop.
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PR is not based on Back-links alone. And the rest you said is wrong as well.
If you buy a domain and slap a new site on it, your site will be evaluated depending how fast the Bots have indexed
the whole site again. So one the key thing to do when you do a stunt like this, is to have a site map up and running.
Many times the bots just visit you for a few pages. IF those pages dont exists, it will be seen as a 404 error and be penalized in the next SE updates. So make sure you have a redirect that takes the user to the Sitemap instead of the 404 page or front-page - that way you will limit your loss of total amount of pages indexed on that domain.
The content don't really matter that much, as long as you have at least the same about of content you should not see any big changes, unless its not accessible for the bots.
Changing host or IP will not affect the PR or position either