Redirecting broken backlink to my site
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Hello guys,
I found an expired domain with inbound links from 41 different root domains, almost all of them from relevant sources. I have 2 ideas in my mind:
A) I am thinking about buying this expired domain and place a 301 redirect to a post in my blog who talks about a similar subject.Relevance: let's say the content of the expired domain is about "horses wallpapers" and the content of my site is about "horse transport". Not the same, but a post in my blog could talk about "top 10 horse wallpapers". Do you see what I mean?
B) Contact all the webmasters with broken links, alert them and expect they are nice and place a nice link to the post in my blog talking about "top 10 horse wallpapers".
What do you think? Should I take A or B? Any other idea?
I added a picture with the Domain Rank of the broken links
Thanks a lot !!!
Luis
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I analyzed the domain health and it seems ok!!
Guys, I finally decided to create a small site (free hosting, a couple of texts from wayback machine,...) for this domain in order to start increasing the DA again, and I will place a couple of nice links to my money site once this is set up. Will all those links, in a couple of weeks I expect some results
I will update you about my experience!
Luis
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One thing more I would add, there may be a reason this domain has expired, it may be that it has a penalty, you maybe inheriting someone else bad reputation.
I would not bother. -
We tested cache dates a few different times with these type of tools. We can force a recrawl of other people's links much faster by pinging them. Also, there are some links Google just hasn't revisited in years - especially blog posts & blog links. We want to avoid them missing our best links so we ping them.
Some webmasters will get back to you on changing links. It does work - maybe 10-15% return here. So if you had 40 to contact, that's potentially 4-6 of the site's best links.
A shouldn't work but it does. Otherwise nobody's PBNs would work and they are among the strongest links you can get.
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I cant see B working, I don't think you will have any success contacting webmasters to do as you asked.
but A, may not work either. I don't know what google does with expired domains, but if you think as a search engine, would you want to awrd link juice from an epired domain to someone that buys it for those links. If I owned google I would tell me programmers to find a way to stop this happening.
sorry Matt I don't understand why you would want to ping the links, the links will be followed by the search engine in time, what would pinging tem do?
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Well, B is definitely the better idea. Both would most likely help your rankings (depending on existing link profile, etc.) but B is cleaner, though harder. I would prefer to go down that path if you have the resources.
Also, if you buy the domain, those backlinks are disconnected until you reconnect them. So don't forget to ping the good backlinks if you do decide to go down the A path. Download all the links you can find, ping them in a tool like pingfarm and they seem to "reconnect" and repower the domain. Google just has to crawl those old pages, see the link still exists and you're good to go.
(Again, B is a preferred choice...but in the interest of information, A would probably work.)
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