Ok, let's say there is a few key phrases that each get about 100-400 searches a day. The top ten for these key phrases consist of only PR 0-1 pages. If I buy one of those PR 4 domain names that have plenty of backlinks, hypothetically, will I likely be able to get in those top tens just by putting the keywords on my site and site title? thanks for any advice.
yes. this should work. You should add the words in the title and in the content also. However, you should get SOME links to continue with those rankings. I wouldn't say you'll make to to # 1 with just the title and content. You have to do more that that. Those sites might be working on getting links, and Google might already be ranking them for those KWs just because they have lots of incoming links. (A good example could be for a site for SEO contest) New sites will have rankings with the domain name and links. Your PR 4 site won't match that.
There is more to ranking than PR. For example, what if the 'plenty of backlinks' all have anchor text that is unrelated to your targeted search term? There is no straight answer to this
The trick is finding those domains with PR, Backlinks, domain age, etc... The site could be a few months old with a PR4, so it would be hard to say if it's going to get rankings on any term. There are a lot of other factors that come into play...not really so black/white.
It definitely seems like it could work but you would have to try it out. I would love to see what happens though so keep us posted on the updates. Interesting idea indeed.
just make sure the bls of those sites also talks about your kws, just for the added oomph. old, great pr, great bl sites are powerful. although, it doesn't mean that competitors having pr 0-1 aren't powerful enough. in organic search, i don't think PR's the main factor in increasing page/site rankings.
This will work in the short term, however you should be aware that the search engines are looking more and more at the themes of the backlinks. i.e. Is the site/page that links to you of a similar theme or just a free for all links page. They are also looking more and more into duplicate content issues but that's another thread. So in summary, if your PR4 domain is based on a bunch of randon(and non-related sites/pages) your PR will suffer going forward. To keep your PR or grow it, just continue to find links on sites and/or pages that are related in theme to your site. To improve in your rankings you will also need to do some onsite optimization as well. All the ideas are already in this forum. Good luck.
It depends on the keywords. Just because a site has PR0-1 doesn't mean it's going to be easy to beat in organic SERPs. You need to make sure that your competition is poorly optimized and doesn't have a lot of inbound links with anchor text of your keywords. Do these searches on Google and replace %KEYWORD% with your keyword phrase: inurl:"%KEYWORD%" intitle:"%KEYWORD%" inanchor:"%KEYWORD%" The first one will tell you how many pages contain the keyword somewhere in the URL (domain or page name). The second will tell you how many pages contain the keywords in their TITLE, this is a big factor. Lastly, the third search will reveal who is using the keywords in their link text (anchor text). Remember, the results for these searches are also returned in order of strongest to weakest... so the toughest competition will be the first few results. If you can beat them, you'll eventually get to #1. PS: Buying old sites with PR might help you skip the sandbox. It helps if the site is on topic to begin with, if not, use a subdomain and NOT a folder (this will speed things up). Hope that helps. Pete.