I have some experience over the last few months about areas with PR ends to see if it is worth your time to capture these areas expired and deleted.
My idea why I’d like to use expired domains is the notion that old areas that are not favoured new areas, and to get instant PR.
So I set out to find deleted PR fields with which I can register. A characteristic of areas I was looking at the field was that still had a PR, and was still listed on google. I will not mention the fields here in my real need to monitor the results and prevent people from doing backlinks to those areas.
I registered about 4 areas, some have PR2 and PR3. Some have a few pages indexed, some have several thousand. I also bought a pair of new areas for my new projects.
I discovered that google rarely visits these areas as I need to prime it but with some sweet backlinks. After creating some backlinks to these areas, eventually lost their two areas PR. These two areas have only a few pages indexed in Google. In one area, I made a 301 permanent redirect to the new index page. This area has retained its PR. A fundamental difference in this area was compared with the other two is that this area has thousands of pages indexed in Google.
In another area, I did a 301 and redirect it to a fresh new domain. The result is that the new field got indexed faster and more pages were indexed compared to another new area I registered at the same time. However, PR is down to 0.
There is also a case where I did a 301 from a former deleted field with PR and never received any benefit from it.
In conclusion, there are still conflicting results on whether buying deleted / expired domains. Some works, some not. However, what appears is that the work…
A. Old erase not contain traffic from existing fields backlinks. If the old area has tons of backlinks, it does not generate any traffic.
B. Other search engines such as Yahoo and MSN appear not to have prejudices against an expired / deleted areas.
