Wrong PR at Snapcheck?!??

[martin]

hi there.

i am wondering if almost all the time snapcheck gives a wrong PR on expiring domains? did you guys have the same experience? are those domains that have been punished for cheating to get such a high PR?

i´ve been backordering a couple of PR 5-7 domains, which are supposed to bring quite a few users to my site - but nothing really happened...

where´s the mistake? any help would be appreciated!

 

[stscac]

it is my belief (i heard it somewhere) that expired domains lose their pr from google. this may be the reasoning why you cannot get much traffic out of these domains.

-Steve

 

[martin]

hi steve.

well, dispite the fact that this would be sad for many reasons - how about the links to the expired domain? they don´t suddenly disappear! and doesn´t the PR consist of backlinks, too?

 

[stscac]

in theory the links would not disappear, because the sites with the links to expired domain sites still exist. I am like 97% percent sure that this is the case - would only make sense to me, but things don't have to make sense - they're google, they can do what they want.

-Steve

 

[edits]

they're google, they can do what they want.

And that right there should be branded into any domainers mind. Regardless of what snapcheck or even your own personal research shows...PR can be given, manipulated, and taken away at the blink of an eye...as well any links the site has in the SE itself.

There was a post here not to long ago of a site that had like 1k+ links in google and then *poof* it returned 0 results.

 

[Sains]

Yep, it's absolutely the case that big sites that achieved high PR and serps in G before expiration have lost all ranking or most ranking when re-registered. I am, however, not altoghether convinced it is to do with the expiration; rather, I am of the opinion it may be partly due to downtime: a site that was down for a long time returning 404's before expiry, as is often the case with unrenewed domains, can often have a major difficulty getting 'back into google' when it returns.

It's unclear. There are simply loads of views - a multitude of which are no doubt in some way true.

Simple answer is, SnapCHECK is only so reliable.

 

[noob]

Martin,
it's very easy for google to compare Domain creation date with existing domain backlinks in his database, so if you buy expired domain google sees links are older than domain itself = all those backlinks are nulified and domains loses its PR. Easy like that Trick of buying expired domains worked 2 years ago, now it's over.

just my 2c