Purchased a website ranked #1 in Google

[Rel323]

Hi Joel,

As a newbie, I'm in the process of making my first adsense site. I have not received your first set of materials yet, but it is early since my order.

A few questions that may not be covered in your manuals. I have purchased for $5 an expired domain site that is ranked #1 of 165,000 inquires on Google. The title of the website has excellent keywords which I will include in the title of my Adsense page (I have it half written in my mind already) and it will lend itself well to my physical product also (though not directly). I will want to link to my physical product somewhere in the body context to boost sales.

As long as the content is consistent with the prior information it had with Google, is there any reason Google may not honor the #1 position after the change of ownership? When the site is ready for uploading as an Adsense site, are there any steps that should not be ordinarily included because the ranking is already there? I would rather not wake the sleeping giant and maintain the spot obviously.

Your advise and the forum's thoughts would be welcome.

Rel Kempf

[golden14]

alas in traffic rankings there is no 'honour',when you buy a new or expired domain google owes you nothing if anything you have to work it the other way around, if you are number 1 then you have to work damn hard to keep that ranking. If anything when you have bought an expired domain expect the ranking to plummet, after all if the site has been expired for six months etc and not updated then no offence then why should google still rank it as number 1. In the meantime several people may have been carrying out massive SEO on your keywords and you could find yourself literally hundreds of thousand or even millions of pages down the rankings, so:-
a) get your site back up fast with relevant content (just remember adsense is contextual to your body text)
b) Hope you didn't pay a fortune for that Number 1 position expired domain.
c) Just being honest and telling it like it is, google is a $multiBillion dollar company and won't really worry about honouring your number 1 position that's just not how it works.

[Adsense Alternatives]

If its an expired domain, google will stop counting all older backlinks, and hence, there is more probability that your site looses ranking.

[snovakor]

For this you need more than your #1 domain ! A several factors is out there in robots for your #1 in Google. Which is the Best ? Maybe you can ask Joel, but in global everything is in the same.