question Buying a domain name and maybe the old content...

[oberheimer]

I might buy a domain and content from the previous website.
What would you have done?
Should I buy the domain name first and then contact the owner again about the content?
He used to hire a content writer that charged about $50 per 1000 words ( news).
There are about 100 news articles from what I can tell. It's old now so should be cheaper.

 

[dna]

Pay only for the value of the domain name.
Get your content from already published sources.
Use rewriting software on the content to make it original.
Try using wordtune.

 

[Dr Doomain]

Buy the domain first, then ask him about the price of the content. Check if it is on archive.org, but better save it until the website is still live. If the price is too much, you can rewrite the articles with quillbot

 

[oberheimer]

Buy the domain first, then ask him about the price of the content. Check if it is on archive.org, but better save it until the website is still live. If the price is too much, you can rewrite the articles with quillbot

Some of the content is on archive.org
I can see 1 of the 10 pages with news, so basically 10 news articles
I have to make an offer on the name first and see if I can get a good deal on it. I will try to get it for less than his bin

 

[Surya Giri Kurniawan]

Website with contents and good index in Google is another story from the domain. No guarantee if you copy the website will be indexed the same by google. There are snippets, anchors, linking methods etc. that can be different in the new website. Copy a content from another website also can be marked as problem by Google bot.

No wonder good and old websites with ordinary domains can be sold XXXXX$ on flippa. Some old amazon affiliate websites can earn 2000$ or more / month.

 

[oberheimer]

Website with contents and good index in Google is another story from the domain. No guarantee if you copy the website will be indexed the same by google. There are snippets, anchors, linking methods etc. that can be different in the new website. Copy a content from another website also can be marked as problem by Google bot.

No wonder good and old websites with ordinary domains can be sold XXXXX$ on flippa. Some old amazon affiliate websites can earn 2000$ or more / month.

The content has only been on that domain name, if I create the same pages again I guess it should be less of a problem. Sure there might be different settings in WordPress and so on but it's not a completely new domain name. plus it has about 500 links to the articles.

 

[Surya Giri Kurniawan]

The content has only been on that domain name, if I create the same pages again I guess it should be less of a problem. Sure there might be different settings in WordPress and so on but it's not a completely new domain name. plus it has about 500 links to the articles.

Might be. But I was a blogger and many time changed my domains because I sold them. The most worth for traffic is website, not a domain. I had bought some domains with high DA and PA. And after it is not been used for 3 month, they became DA/PA 0. Some links might be still be counted, but mostly are not counted after drop. And when the website added with new domain, they start to be indexed by Google nearly as good as before.

If contents can be coppied and Google index them without labelling as spam, SEO might be a kid's job. Just search high ranking website and copy paste the content. But Google will penalty the website with alot of copy and paste contents, the old one is named as the source, not according to the domain. That's time stamp works for. Even a domain can be forward to Google.com with masking, and get the DA/PA the same as Google. DA/PA checker can be fooled, but not Google Bot. As soon as the domain is not been forward to Google website, it will be labelled as spam domain because a fake DA/PA. Website is the main source of Google indexing, not the domain..

But you can try your method, as I think it will waste your money.

 

[Sjpals]

I would ask the price for domain and contents together.
If its wordpress, migrate guru is usually good plugin to transfer it all easily.

 

[Sjpals]

The content has only been on that domain name, if I create the same pages again I guess it should be less of a problem. Sure there might be different settings in WordPress and so on but it's not a completely new domain name. plus it has about 500 links to the articles.

create the same pages again, but not the same content. That will be under copyright by the owner unless they sell you the content.
You also dont want to mess up the existing links etc. Just get the content.

 

[homebuyer]

Never mind ...