I have my own opinions on this and experiences and they tend to disagree with the popular opinion.~~ Question. If you buy a domain name that was a few years old. And reregister, via SEDO, auction or just through a normal register. Will this domain name outperform a totally new registration? My belief was always that a doman got reset and there were no advatages. Experience tends to proove otherwise.
Yeah, if it's been dropped there is no age advantage. But, if the main index page had some backlinks you'll probably retain those links. But the PR will probably change if the site had internal links, unless you can recreate the pages before the searchengines eventually drop them. That is if the pages themselves had any PR.
That was my view.... Until a brand new domain name for a competitive phrase sliced straight to #1 for a competitive phrase in two weeks........ Weird
I've seen it happen a couple of times, brand new site no backlinks in about a week, about a million and a half competing sites (no quotes). Just a few pages, but it was a keyword domain. Gotta get a little lucky I guess the competing sites weren't as optimized.
if the old site still has the links connected to the domain then buying the domain can be beneficial but google loves new website with great content and it pushing them to the front page in a very short time to help promote them, if the new site does not receive clicks then google drops it in the ranking
Yep, having a domain name consisting 100% of your keyword phrase is the key to success IMO Currently, around 80% of the domains I register are this kind - and I can tell from my experience that unless it's a VERY competitive keyword it's a piece of cake to grab the #1 spot in less than two weeks even if you have to fight sites with high PR and loads of backlinks.
ONLY if the site has been previously indexed by Google. It's a common myth that 'the older the domain the more love you get from Google' - the actual age of the domain has nothing to do with it. What matters is the age of the website - and even this is irrelevant if Google hasn't ever indexed it (e.g. parked domain pages etc.)
Thats exactly what I have been doing. I call it a niche site~ It just slices through biggies Most of my best sites are the domain names/ keywords But they are hellish expensive sometimes
My experience is that you need some kind of angle to vitalise or renew old links. For some domains this is quite simple..