WARNING! Expired Domains: New Cheat

I wrote some post about cheats with expired domains: http://www.submitemnow.com/blog/post/3.htm

Please note that user http://forums.digitalpoint.com/member.php?u=131047 is trying to cheat us in this way.

 

i dont understand. if a domain has expired, it's expired. anybody who registers it is free to build on it right?

 

Yes, free. But after next google page rank update site will lose all PR.

 

still not following...

 

Well, the problem here is a link exchange when you give link with real PR and get link with fake PR (which will be dropped on next google update for expired domains). Do you see?

 

How is this new? This has been happening since the Google toolbar showed PR lol

 

what lof of people on the BST forum do is to register an expired domain with PR, build a quick site, and then sell links on that site showing the existing PR. thats all good, but the only problem is that most of the backlinks the site has will probably not be there and there is a very good chance that the site will lose its PR on the next update. so the money you pay has a chance of being down to the drain

 

This trick is kinda hard to detect sometimes, most fell for it when sellers say they are desperate to sell it or set the auction period very short.

 

its not hard to detect whether the domains are expired or not. all you have to do is to check the domain with wayback machine and look for the previous archives. if the domain is expired, then it will have different archived copy than the one showing on the site

 

they can recover old version

 

Exactly my thought! Anyway... it's always a good idea to open your eyes when buying links.

 

Some people can block wayback machine's bot by putting a robots.txt

User-agent: ia_archiver
Disallow: /

Code (markup):

 

Man, It is always a way to cheat the system.
Can we just find honest sellers out there? Mention one pls.

 

You can never know that. You're not the authority and obviously you have no experience with expired domains.

 

check Whois history database on domaintools.com for particular domain

 

people are trying to sell the expired domains which has no backlinks. when you buy a domain or link from a web site, it's better to check the who is info

 

Yah, it's probably best to stay away from this people..... with all of the different free link building tips and techniques, there's no reason to rely on these shady link exchanges.

 

Sure What's about this quote?

 

well, one reason people buy expired domain is to avoid the google sandbox. but i dont know if google sandbox really exist now. i can build a site and a month later received a PR1.

Another question, let say i bought an expired domain with a certain PR value. Build a new site over it. how long must i wait before knowing which PR is legit for my site? after next PR update?

 

That is pretty clever if you ask me.

I don't exchange links but I will keep this in mind.