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[jasonir]

On March 7, 2003, GoogleGuy said:

Hey, the index is going to be coming out real soon, so I wanted to give people some idea of what to expect for this index. Of course it's bigger and deeper (yay!), but we've also put more of a focus on algorithmic improvements for spam issues. One resulting improvement with this index is better handling of expired domains--the authority for a domain will be reset when a domain expires, even though dangling links to the expired domain are still out on the web. We'll be rolling this change in over the next few months starting with this index.
Most webmasters won't notice much change, but I wanted to give folks some advance notice. If your toolbar display changes a little up or down--don't panic. The change I mentioned, plus things like having more pages crawled in our index, can affect the toolbar display. As always, the traffic and conversions you get matter more than how many green pixels the toolbar shows.

Over the next few months, I think you'll see more emphasis at Google on scalable algorithms rather than responding to individual spam reports--please set your expectations accordingly--but we are also putting more emphasis on reinclusion requests from webmasters.

As always, I'll try to be around to answer questions and offer advice..

Well folks, it looks like that update has finally rolled out. Pre-existing links to a domain will no longer count once a domain expires. No more Free PR.

Back to the old fashioned way of doing things. If you weren't snatching expired domains before, it seems like you missed the boat.

[dropped9]

WOW thats gunna hurt some ppl!

[jasonir]

Further information FYI: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/22820.htm

[goBigtime]

I <3 Google

[Dveron]

Originally posted by jasonir
On March 7, 2003, GoogleGuy said:




Well folks, it looks like that update has finally rolled out. Pre-existing links to a domain will no longer count once a domain expires. No more Free PR.

Back to the old fashioned way of doing things. If you weren't snatching expired domains before, it seems like you missed the boat.

Err...that was last year. You can still pick up expireds that retain their PR also even after the 'improvements'

[init]

ive picked up quite a few pr expired domains and they've retained their pr

[gornyhuy]

Originally posted by Dveron


Err...that was last year. You can still pick up expireds that retain their PR also even after the 'improvements'

Good point, thats over a year ago man!!!!

[swami]

GoogleGuy did mention it in a recent post,
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/22820.htm

and he did nuke this domain www.hupo2003.com which was an expired pr7 a few days ago.
So be wary about paying big money for them.
Also all expired domains with a dmoz listing now gets automatically deleted so I think perhaps google and dmoz are sharing the same software and its quite possible that even if the newly expired domains still show pr on Google's toolbar it may be worthless for transferring page rank to other sites.

[DarkJedi]

Good news.
I wish they did something to the blogs too.