pagerank on expired domains
 

it's only me, or google start deleting pagerank on all new expired domains?

Uh.. They started doing that sometime last year.

ok, next

Yeah - its a bitch. Only *JUST* started happening last week.

Googleguy posted quite a bit on it on webmastertalk or whatever forum it is he plays on.

Has to do with the domain will retain PR right up until day it is dropped. As soon as it drops and whois data is updated then it is reset to PR0. You dont get any credit for existing links on Google :(

Are you sure about that or are you just saying things you think might be like that? Do these domains really lose PR or is that just a speculation? I mean I know google is on it, but how do you know? Is PR really the indicator?

Wiredguy?

I haven't bought expired domains in months now, but generally speaking the approach I used was to register an expired domain and asap put up similiar content to what was on before. Often times, the PR was lost for a week or two. Once the new site was online, you just had to wait a month or so until the next google update and the existing links that stayed out there would be picked up and the PR would be restored. It might take a month or two even, but in general it worked. Granted, I haven't done this in months now.

WG

Sure thing is that they drastically improved expired domains PR0ing starting March 26th according my data.
XM

good to hear there are indicators so they don't simply turn backlinks off and let you wonder is that pagerank for real or just a fake :)

ok WTF are you trying to say? this post is more than a year old. I know they didn't do jack shit about expired domains. I only lost 3% of them since that was posted. I am interested in current news, not some old stuff I read back then as well.

I've been thinking about buying more expired domains. Maybe I'll hold off for a little while. I've got enough PR running through my network that I can get a new domain to PR4 or 5 pretty effortlessly.

March 26th 2004 or 2003? gotta ask cuz some people keep posting URLs to old posts on WMW

2003

Google has refreshed their DB on expired domain names a long time ago.

Actually, no it hasn't. It's been happening for quite a long time already.

LOL DarkJedi ... you're posting this on GFY for years

I'm sure you own at least a few thousands of expired domains :winkwink:

I wonder what kind of domains were affected, as I can tell I only lost 3% or them. All the rest I got the last 12 months have their PR where it was at the time of purchase. So how Google catches them I have no idea, but if PR0 is the indicator then Google is doing a real poor job in my case.

This is a bad thing for webmasters but this is a good thing for google's quality ranking . No more cheap asses redirecting old traffic to popups hell ...

only idiots are redirecting old traffic to popup hell.

2004 . Sure they claimed they took care of that already last year, but from my own experience I can tell you it wasn't true :Graucho

However for last 2 weeks 100% of domains have been set to PR0 at the day of their deletion.

XM

XM, is that only your observation or are there more threads about this elsewhere?

I don't care about threads, I just check ALL expiring domains for their PR and see them PR0, that's enough info for me.
XM

I got a question.

There is a mainstreme domian that I want that is listed as:


On-Hold (Redemption Period)

Whats the deal with this?

Yeaah... but PR isn't the main reason we buy domains, right?