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Old 07-07-2004, 02:53 PM  
WiredGuy
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Originally posted by swami
This answer shows you are way behind the times young man.
Expired domains page rank are all getting crunched by google at the moment.
The only question is ,for how long will they keep them at pr0?
I guess 12 months.
I actually disagree with that. I have been able to pickup expired domains and upon acquisition they were reset to PR0. But within 1-2 updates I was able to keep most of the PR (usually dropped by 1 or 2 points but kept most of it). Unfortunately this means picking up a PR7 on expiration only meant getting a PR5 after 1-2 updates which was rather discouraging. Building a PR5 is much easier than the effort to try to get a PR7 expiring domain. But the case in point I'm trying to make was that if the backlinks more or less stay and the content you're targetting remains the same (ie: similiar theme as prior to the deletion) then I was able to keep the domain from being reset to 0 entirely.

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