PR9 website is for sale for 450.000$

[rentdn]

Jeez this is first time I've seen PR9 website offered for sale . It's in premium sites of SP's marketplace


" PR9, World's Oldest University Directory - BrainTrack.com"

 

[Bravo]

12 years old, Yahoo! backlinks: ~ 198,767....what a gem....

 

[DomainMagnate]

wow that's some serious SEO weight

 

[Seraphim]

Buying a website based on PR is extremely high risk. A server change, or a simple sneeze these days can knock you down a few pegs.

Whoever buys it better make darn sure there is zero down time while the website is switching hands. It's a house of cards.

 

[rentdn]

Yeah , It's a directory of universities requiring reciprocal link , thats why it got such a high pr

 

[DomainMagnate]

Buying a website based on PR is extremely high risk. A server change, or a simple sneeze these days can knock you down a few pegs.

Whoever buys it better make darn sure there is zero down time while the website is switching hands. It's a house of cards.

Well it's risky that's true, but PR doesn't depend on servers, even if it's offline for weeks the PR will stay at least till the next update
However you can get some penalties and lose PR for selling links and putting some "bad content" etc.
But still it has 200K backlinks, most are probably from major universities :yes:

 

[Seraphim]

Well it's risky that's true, but PR doesn't depend on servers, even if it's offline for weeks the PR will stay at least till the next update
However you can get some penalties and lose PR for selling links and putting some "bad content" etc.
But still it has 200K backlinks, most are probably from major universities :yes:

PR isn't exclusively backlinks, there are other trust factors that have to be met to get and hold extremely high PR, otherwise you will perpetually plateau. Changing servers is one such trust factor among many, and it doesn't go unnoticed by the big G. Do you have a dedicated server, a shared server? It's a complicated issue, and it absolutely affects PR and ranking strength.

Depending on how often your website is spidered, you can lose PR + rank in a matter of hours if your site if offline, unfortunately I can confirm this. Remember, the PageRank you see, and actual internal PageRank that drives your search position, are two completely different things, and that's straight from G themselves. They haven't shown fresh toolbar PR for years, as they continue running towards a nearly live index.

 

[rentdn]

I've read many times that changing servers might have some influence on PR , however not sure about this

 

[BELLC1]

Is that $450.00 or $450,000.00 ?

 

[rentdn]

450k$=450.000$ :lol:

 

[DomainMagnate]

Well I never really checked the PR that closely on my sites, I had a few pr6 sites though. But generally pr by itself is quite overrated I think.
As we know there are over 200 factors determining rankings, but from my experience it's just about having good quality content, authority and proper backlinks and takes time too..

 

[rentdn]

Well I never really checked the PR that closely on my sites, I had a few pr6 sites though. But generally pr by itself is quite overrated I think.
As we know there are over 200 factors determining rankings, but from my experience it's just about having good quality content, authority and proper backlinks and takes time too..

Actually PR is one of the important factors , but of course not the only one

 

[Seraphim]

I've read many times that changing servers might have some influence on PR , however not sure about this

It's a factor without question, the issue is to what degree does it weigh in, and that's anyone's guess. Server speed, location, the factors involved in ranking a website in Google these days are mind boggling. The core ranking elements are still similar to days of old, but a tsunami of fringe factors has been written into their algorithm. It's obviously getting more dynamic by the month, and you can see this in action especially with newer website positions.

Well I never really checked the PR that closely on my sites, I had a few pr6 sites though. But generally pr by itself is quite overrated I think.

Absolutely! It's purely an old school SEO mindset that keeps it's value alive, Google knows this and acts accordingly I'm sure. I seem to be a minority when I say I wish they would do away with displaying it all together, because it can really be a crippling factor when attempting to promote a new website, even an extremely high quality one.