Part of the guide: Blog Traffic
In my last post, I talked about the best SEO strategy of 2013.
I explained how authority site building with high PR backlinks combined with content publication and syndication results in mass authority, rapid rankings, and total niche domination.
Fairly simple stuff. The more content you publish, the more authority you build over time.
Here’s the deal with content syndication though. If you want FAST results, if you want your content to rank extremely quickly; your site has to have existing authority.
If you want to rank FAST for medium to very tough competition phrases, you need real site authority. To obtain that authority, you can wait a long time. You start building natural authority immediately, after 1-2 years you have a lot more authority, after 5 years you have a TON of authority.
Time does equate to authority as long as you are publishing content and building links over that time. In fact, if you’ve got a new website, it’s sometimes better to publish a few pages and then wait. Just wait for a month or two, leave it to sit and mature. You’d be surprised at how much authority you build over a month or two with a few backlinks or none at all.
So, publishing content + building links to content = authority over time.
But if you want INSTANT authority, you have to get backlinks from other authorities in your niche. So if you’re in the men’s dating niche, a few backlinks from askmen.com would sky-rocket your authority.
As that’s one of the biggest men’s dating sites in the niche. The problem is getting links from those kinds of sites is tough or extremely expensive.
Now Google’s other real measure of authority is Page Rank. The higher the PR the more authoritative the page/site must be. So, by purchasing HIGH PR domains and setting them up with a link to yours; it just looks like these super powerful websites are linking to you.
With just 5-10 of these high PR (PR5+) domains, your authority will shoot a long way. So all this strategy is, is buying expired high PR domains and re-positioning them as backlinks. Over this post I’ll talk about these domains and how to re-position them as your own high PR private backlinks with 3 different techniques.
Most of the time they are domains that people simply forget to re-new or don’t want anymore – not knowing of the page rank value they let them expire. So you can often snap them up at low prices in auction.
HIGH PR DOMAIN BUYING GUIDELINES
When buying a high PR domain, you have to run checks to make sure they are real. People fake high Page Rank by linking a PR6 domain to a newly registered PR0 domain making it high PR – then once sold they re-direct their PR6 backlink to another domain rendering the previous one useless.
The best high PR domains are PR5 or over. If you can’t afford to build a network of PR5′s, you can start by buying a few PR2’s, 3’s, and 4’s. You’ll find 2’s and 3’s for $30-$75. PR4’s for $70-$150 and PR5’s for $150-$350. Never buy high PR domains that have less than 50 backlinks, that’s my first filter that weeds out a lot of the fake domains.
The best way to check if the PR is real is to analyze the domain’s link profile and see the Page Rank of the domain’s backlinks.
Use MajestSEO.com or RavenTools.com
So if a domain has 100 PR0 backlinks, but says PR4 – it’s obviously bullshit. You want to look for diverse backlink profiles that are going to stick, not link profiles full of blog comments or other crappy links that can be taken down therefore destroying the PR.
The link profile of the domain should justify its Page Rank. A domain with 1000 backlinks is good, 5000 great, 10,000 fantastic, 50,000+ amazing. Look for backlinks from authority sources, links from real articles, and websites with real PR. When you find a high PR domain with a link profile that justifies its Page Rank – it’s time for the next few checks.
You were never meant to do this alone
Reading this changes nothing. Doing it with people who show up changes everything. That is the whole difference between the people who transform and the people who keep starting over.
Start free →Next run the domain through:
- whois.domaintools.com
- http://www.checkpagerank.net
Check Page Rank isn’t always accurate. With Whois, you want to check if the domain has any drops or not, avoid domains with any drops. When you find a good domain with a real link profile, you have to make the purchase and set it up on SEO hosting.
You can find expired PR domains for fixed prices, but you get the best deals on Godaddy Auctions. Which means you’ll have to bid for each domain with other bidders, highest bid wins the domain. Stick to the price guidelines above.
Every high PR domain of yours should have its own IP address, private registration, and hosting. SEO Hosting is CRUCIAL. Without it, this doesn’t work. A lot of blog networks got shut down because they left obvious footprints including hosting multiple sites on the same IP’s.
I use SEOhost. SEOhost allows you to purchase hosting plans based on the number of domains you want. Each domain will have its own IP address and name servers. With a domain bought and hosted; you should install WordPress or another site builder/blogging platform. WordPress is fine.
It’s very important that you use a variety of themes and designs for your high PR domains – you want to leave as little footprint as possible. With WP installed and a theme setup, you have a few options.
1. Setup Domain As Old Site
2. Setup Domain As Relevant Site
3. Setup Domain For Blog Network
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Comments
ElvisPiks, February 27 2013, 20:10
Should I link only from the domain main page only or sponsored link can come from all pages?
JanisKisis, February 27 2013, 20:45
If I buy a website with drops, how that can influence PR later? What about changing the theme of the site from one to another? Doesn’t that influence PR? What if I’m lucky to find an expired domain in my niche?
Hudders, February 27 2013, 21:30
JanisKisis Avoid domains with drops, they tend to lose PR. Changing theme doesn’t matter. If you can find high PR’s in your niche, that’s even better; but not necessary. You can buy expired high PR’s in any niche, just change the title tags etc to make it relevant to your niche. You can include the old site title on the new site to make it seem more legitimate. But ultimately Google will not manually review your 10-50 site network – even if they do you probably won’t be penalized anyway.
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The post treats ‘Page Rank’ as the live signal that decides rankings, but Toolbar PageRank was already a stale, infrequently updated number by 2013 – it reflects last quarter’s link graph, not today’s. Worth separating ‘a domain with a PR5 badge’ from ‘a domain Google currently trusts’, because the whole buying strategy rests on treating those as the same thing.
I spent years on the compliance side of a direct-sales company, and this reads like the same problem wearing a different costume. When distributors set up separate-looking entities to disguise that one person is running all of them, we built whole systems just to catch the pattern – shared devices, shared payment details, timing that’s too consistent. Google is doing exactly that at scale with IPs and hosting footprints. I can’t tell you whether this particular tactic still works, only that the shape of the risk is familiar.
Playing the other side here, since everyone’s dismissing the tactic: the strongest case for it is that it’s just arbitrage on inattention. Someone forgot to renew a domain carrying genuine, aged, diverse backlinks – that authority doesn’t vanish the day registration lapses, it just sits unclaimed. Buying it isn’t manufacturing trust, it’s picking up trust that already existed and was abandoned by accident. The footprint problem Renata describes is a separate, solvable execution issue, not proof the underlying idea is hollow.
Renata’s right that it’s the same pattern with a different lever. I watched networks do this with expired domains before Panda, then again after with private blog networks, and there’ll be a fourth version once this one gets swept too. The tell never changes: someone’s selling a shortcut to something Google spends a decade trying to price correctly.
Gus, the ‘fourth wave’ point lands. Though the post’s own opening already describes a slower way to build authority that needs none of this at all.
Renata’s compliance framing maps onto a process diagram cleanly, so let me draw it. Input: expired domain. Gate one: link profile check through MajestSEO or RavenTools, reject on low-quality backlinks. Gate two: whois drop history, reject on any drops. Gate three: IP and registration diversity across your own holdings – this is the gate the post spends the least time on, and it’s the one that gets whole networks deindexed, not gate one or two. Output: private backlink. The failure mode nobody in this pipeline is actually measuring is correlation across your own domains, which happens to be exactly the signal a search engine is best positioned to detect.
I am sixty-one and rebuilding rather later than I would have liked, so I read this looking for what it actually costs to start, not just the theory. Bidding at Godaddy Auctions against other buyers, private registration, separate hosting and IPs for every domain – the arithmetic before you have written a single word of content is not small, and patience is asked of you twice over, once while bidding and once while the domain matures.
If Check Page Rank isn’t reliable, what’s actually left to verify a domain’s authority before paying for it?