I read a report recently that suggested to buy auction domains that have value and then do a 301 redirect to your site. It claimed that it would pass on all the back link values. What are you thoughts and experiences?
Doesn't seem like it would work. For one thing, once the content of the site you purchased was gone in favor of a redirect, all links to any part of the site other than the home page url would be broken, right?
What the report was claiming was if the domain had 1000 links pointing to the home page then those 1000 links would count to you. Because of the 301 redirect. Any links pointing to internal page of the auction domain would be lost. To me if 1000 links were pointing to theolddomain (dot) com home page then you do a 301 redirect to yourdomain (dot) com it would seem to me that all 1000 would count to yourdomain (dot) com . Seems to make sense but does it work? Or will Google figure it out and drop all 301 redirects link counts.
Well, I did a little digging around in other forums and did find repeated posts from a very reputable contributor claiming the same thing: Anyone else?
So this seems like a great idea. However, I have spent a little time checking out auction domains and it seems like a lot of time to find domains with some values for good prices. But you could run into a gold mind. And it would only make sense to buy a domain within the same theme of the domain you are trying build links for.
that is one of the reasons people dell their domains, they know other people want them and they know other people will pay to have them. backlinks are worth money, so the domains they point to are as well