I found a very interesting trick at a site (Credits - ashwinramesh.com) It helps you find expired Wordpress Blogs with some good PR. All of you must be a little familiar with Wordpress and the system it works around. When a particular wordpress blog isnt used for some time it generally is deactivated and anybody else can re-register it (applies to wordpress.com) People have used this to the fullest to find expired blogs with high pr, registering it in their name for free and then getting good bucks. The following method involves WPMU. WPMU FYI is a Wordpress Multi User Platform with 1000’s of sites running on it. An example site running on WPMU would be blogates.com Now this process involved targetting expired WPMU blog’s with PR and I’ve just put it down under a step by step procedure: 1. Install the SEO Quake Toolbar for FireFox, which will help you out in this process - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=seo+quake&status=4 2. Go to google.com and go to the preferences tab and change the number of results google will pull out to 100. 3. Now, open another instance of google.com 4. Type in “Fill out this one-step form and you’ll be blogging seconds later!†in the first instance. This will help us to find some WPMU sites and will populate a nice little list for us. 5. In Google Instance number 2, type in the keyword “doesn’t exist but you can create it now!†and put in the “site:†attribute to make it pull out results from just one WPMU site at an instance (We get the WPMU sites list from Google instance number 1) 6. Now, as the results are populated for the instance 2, use the SEO Quake Toolbar to populate the PR of the result pages. 7. Use the toolbar to sort results by descending order of PR. 8. Follow the links to the blogs with PR and register them! You can rinse and repeat this method to get as many PR blogs as you like! This method isn't just as exploited as the Wordpress.com exploit and not many people are applying it to WPMU and the chances of finding high PR blogs which are expired is high!
The seo weight and page rank wouldn't last, GoogleBot most likely knows the output of an expired wordpress.com account and begins to devalue the site. Remember, if "your" finding it expired via Google then GoogleBot already knows the site doesn't exist, its a 404 error type (i'm being loose here) reported back. I wouldn't expect many backlinks to last since the blog will be different. Just my 2 cents, either way good luck.
You are searching the websites via Google but check the keywords, they are the ones that help you find the site. Also the addon gives more features. Google is just used because the addon works well with it.
I'm not doubting your idea\method works, I'm sure it does. I'm just letting you know Google is most likely already devaluing the site and pagerank will be lost, don't expect all the backlinks to stick around either. Don't forget when Google re-indexes the site it will find completely new\different content. Hopefully this wouldn't happen to a decent portion of the sites you find
Yeah, thats right! But just in case you get hand of some good PR blog without spending much time then I guess it doesn't harm
You _could_ make use of the way-back machine to "ressurect" the content from the old blog, which would help the PR hang around for longer & perhaps keep more of the original backlinks intact too, but that would be quasi-naughty, wouldn't it?
maybe this method was good while only a few people knew about it, now I guess it's pretty hard to find something good, you better invest that time in building your own site PR
Woow... I've got a PR7 blog because of this! I am not hooked to all your present & future topics. Rep added!
Odd that when I tried on several blogs with or without PR that I get the message "Sorry, that username already exists!" and does not let you register an expired blog. Would you mind explaining how you got a PR7 blog using this method? Has anyone else managed to register one of these expired blogs? I tried on several WPMU's.
I have managed to get hold of a couple of PR4s but we need to be very quick and look more further since there might be other people trying this method at the same time. Its like a lucky draw