When buying an aged domain, I have read that the PR and backlinks will be reset, but, this doesn't make sense to me - why would some domains sell for so much money? Obviously, some are brandable, but others are not, yet they still sell for a large amount of money. Do aged domains keep their PR and backlinks? Do they keep their age? What if the wayback machine says they were indexed in 2005, but there are no results since? That means the domain is "brand new" again, right? What if the domain has been indexed, but the only pages ever on it (or currently on it, in the case of high PR domains), were parked pages?
If you bought a domain from someone to continue the website then that would be ok, but if you buying a dropped domain I think the pr and everything would be reset.
could depend on the time it was dropped, weather the engines picked up, im not sure if you'll pick a day old domain up, they might not notice/update/consider it significant
Google says that domain age is not a factor - because they cannot extract the data from most whois systems for ALL domains, therefore it would be unfair to penalise.
I’ll start with a quick fact. If I start a new domain it normally takes me anywhere up to 3 months to start ranking, sometimes shorter, sometimes longer. That’s 3 months of link building, writing articles, linkbait & working. That’s a lot of time. If you’re starting out in Affiliate Marketing should you really be waiting around for your sites to come through Google’s filters? OR would your time be better spent hunting down some domains that could rank for you in as little as 2 weeks? Bingo Despite what many people say I feel there’s really no such thing as the Google Sandbox. It’s just that newer sites are subject to more filters than older ones. The more trust your website gains the less it becomes filtered & the easier you’ll find it to rank. There are 2 basic ways to beat these filters & rank your sites quicker. 1. Build natural strong links from relevant sites (not too quickly) 2. Buy an aged domain with authority already If you are planning on making Affiliate Websites then can you really afford to wait up to 3 months for a domain to start ranking? How much in potential revenue is that? Even more, say you’re creating a website to promote a particular product, what happens if you get filtered & by the time you end up ranking the competition is too fierce? Don’t get me wrong, it IS possible to rank new sites quickly & it can be done (depending on the keywords) but what if you could buy an aged domain & rank right away & make money right away. So what do you look for when buying an aged domain? Age: This for me is the most important factor, the older the better. Pre 2000 is always a winner. Banned: Check the domain hasn’t been banned. Backlinks: Check Yahoo Site Explorer to see how many backlinks the domain has. .Edu Backlinks: Does the domain have any authority backlinks? Indexed: Has the domain been indexed before? search engines calculate a domain’s age from when it was first indexed. If a domain has a good Search History then you’re onto a winner. To check this out fire the url into Way Back Machine. Price: What price are they asking for? You can pick up a good domain for around $10-100 if you look in the right places, a small price to pay for not having to wait to rank. Pagerank: Generally Pagerank isn’t an issue for me although many sellers will try to sell the domain based on Pagerank. I’m more concerned about age & IBL’s.
If you buy an aged domain and quickly put some content on it, it will retain its backlinks and even PR. But you would have to follow it up with building more baclinks and promotion as the older backlinks may not last for long.
It depends on how long have they been droped.Therefore,it doesn't mean an age domain name is always good to you.Maybe you afford a lot for it,but the pr value and backlinks have already lost.So make sure to check this in related places so that you can make full use of it with wisest invest.