Kahn Hald
Ive done some studies over the past couple of months about expiring domains with PR to see if it's worth your while to get these expired and erased domains.
My idea why I'd like to use expired domains could be the notion that old domains are popular than new domains, and to get quick PR.
So I attempted to find deleted domains with PR that I could register. One characteristic of domains I was looking for was that the area still had a, and it was still shown in google.
I will not be mentioning the specific domains here as I need to control the results and prevent folks from building backlinks to these domains.
I listed about 4 domains, some have PR2 and PR3. Some have a few pages found, some have a few thousand. I also bought a few new domains for my new jobs.
I found out that google seldom trips these domains so I need to prime it but with some new backlinks. Linklicious Vs Lindexed is a powerful online database for additional info about how to deal with it. After producing some backlinks to these domains, two their PR was eventually lost by domains. Both of these areas have just a few pages listed in google. In one domain, used to do a 301 permanent redirect to the new index page. Its PR was retained by this domain. One important difference this domain has compared to the other two is that this domain has 1000s of pages listed in google.
In another domain, I did a 301 and direct it to a fresh new domain. The result is that the new domain got indexed more and faster pages were indexed when compared with another new domain I listed at the same time frame. However, PR was down seriously to 0.
There is also a case where I did a 301 direct from an old deleted site with PR and never got any benefit from it.
In conclusion, there's still conflicting results on whether getting deleted/expired areas. Some works, some won't. However, what appear to work is that
a. Old remove domains does contain traffic from existing backlinks. Some traffic does be still generated by it, if the old domain has a lot of backlinks.
T. Visit linklicious site to explore when to ponder this hypothesis. Other search engines such as for instance google and msn do not seem to have an biases against expired/deleted areas..