Not sure if the PageRank is Valid or not?

OK here is a situation for you. You find a domain here which has a PageRank yet it’s not indexed i.e. when you check with Google  and find no record of it being indexed!!!

What do you do? Is it worth taking the risk and registering it?

This is a slightly longer than usual article, but please bear with me. You’ll find it very useful. I promise.

Over at Domain Left, I come across plenty of these domains regularly. They are published with a colour code Orange, and with increasingly improving Google technology to aiming to clamp down and remove quickly such “Expired Gems”  Orange domains will become more common.

If we look back at the process of domain expiration, let’s say asgsoft.net (which I used to own and lost due to lack of experience) it had a period of 30 days which I lost all control over DNS management, unless I renewed it. During that time it was in the hands of the registrar (such as Godaddy/Name.com etc.) and they would publish a standard parking page saying something along the lines of “asgsoft.net has expired. The owner has 30 days to renew the domain name from the expiry date.” And that is true. The owner has 30 days to renew it after it’s officially expired without any problems what so ever.

Assuming the 30 days are up and I don’t renew the domain then it enters the final phase more commonly known as “Pending-Deletion” which is a 14 day period during which I don’t have control over the domain at all. Now it’s gone, and that period is for backorder companies to allow them to place pre-orders on it, so once it drops it’s picked up straight away, which unfortunately happened with asgsoft.net.

Total time that a registrar’s parking page has been displayed now on asgsoft.net is 44 days! Now, if a domain has a PR1+ it must mean that it has an OK-ish set of backlinks. That would mean that Google’s spider (Cleverer than your ordinary spider) is visiting on a regular basis, and has most likely detected the change in the contents, maybe from a unique contents page to a more familiar parking page.

My theory is, once the parking page has been detected then the domain is ear-marked and once it remains on display for X amount of days, then the domains, which in that case is asgsoft.net is removed from the index. Yet the PageRank remains unaffected, but again, that is only for a set certain number of days say Y after it has been removed. Google is not commenting on this theory and unfortunately I don’t have exact values for the X and Y days.

I also think it’s extremely possible to convert an Orange domain to a valid PageRank domain in less than a week. Last month, I bought an expired domain PR2 I published here which wasn’t indexed in Google. I placed a small simple contents page and linked to it from a PR3 site, submitted it to major search engines using this tool and to Google itself, set up a sitemap and also added it there and also to Live and waited. Within a week it was back re-indexed and the PageRank has been validated. It now is a Valid PR2 domain which I got for $1.99

One thing I forgot to do was to add a Google Analytics code to it to monitor its traffic, so I shall be doing so in the next experiment I conduct.

As a result of that experiment I shall be altering the software I have made that creates the lists to hide fake PR domains (No one wants them) but to also include domains which are not indexed since I am sure with a tiny bit of work their PageRank can be re-instated and they are as good as new.

What are your views??