Hi guys, Question: after buying a domain name with Pagerank , will the pagerank dropped after purchasing and revamp the domain to fully develop website?
I don't think so. Just keep good checking before buying. I have many domains for sale with cheap price. So, I know what will happen.
The biggest contributor to you losing your ranking would be not properly implementing 301 redirects to the new site structure ... WPMU did a good short article on it yesterday actually from a WP perspective http://wpmu.org/how-to-301-redirect-wordpress-posts-to-a-new-domain/
PR can stay after an update but there are a number of factors involved and you may find that it will drop by 1 (eg PR4 will drop to PR3). When buying domains be sure to check to see they have a healthy number of backlinks and that they are from higher PR sites. If thats the case you can do as the others have said and implement a 301 redirect and then add your new content and you should be fine.
Thanks for the reply from all of you. When mention healthy number of backlinks. How healthy is healthy. I saw a PR10 Domain with 53 backlinks according to backlinkwatch dot com. is that healthy? or something fishy?
Ofcourse it's fishy! Google have given it the maximum rating yet, somehow, only 50 links exist for the site. Consider CNN, great site, busy, must have "authority" and all that other good stuff. They will have a phenomenal number of inbound links purely because people will blog about something that has happened and give links to the official news broadcast. Your PR10 should have that same kind of natural link building associated with it otherwise it's just not that important.
No PR 10 is the highest but its reserved for only a handful of the massive websites out there such as google itself and twitter and a few others. as far as "healthy" goes. Its a bit subjective. A domain can still be quite good with only a small number of high pr sites pointing to it but a good general rule of thumb is: PR5: 10,000 links PR4: 1,000 Links PR3: 300 links PR2: 100 links
Are those Unique Domain backlinks or just backlinks in general? I have a PR4 domain and I've only got around unique 100 backlinks(600~total), granted a lot of them are from well established tech-blogs like Lifehacker, GHacks and TechRepublic.
Sorry I meant all backlinks. not unique ones. 600 is still probably fine. Those certainly aren't hard and fast rules. I would look to see that the backlinks do come from a variety of sites (having all links from one or two domains probably isn't great).
Sorry, I meant, that a lot of the backlinks are reblogged versions of the articles on those websites i mentioned.
After purchasing a pr domain you need to make website and make some good links for that site. Then that site pr never goes down.
it all depends on you, from search engines, backlinks and greatly affect the value of quality content websites.
If the page rank is fake page rank then obviously you would lose the page rank. If the domain name has backlinks then it is real I would say.