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Parked page with positive PR

How long will it last

         

coosblues

5:08 am on Apr 4, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I parked my web site almost three months ago. It still has a postive PR5 and I'm thinking about reactivating the site. I can do a search on google for my domain and it lists the site (domain name only). There are still quite a number of links pointing to my page so I'd assume that's why google still has it listed. Should I reactivate the page can I expect google to find it again (my dns will be the same) although I plan on changing the web site in some major areas although the theme will be fairly consistent. Any thoughts? When would be the best time to "unpark" this page or would I just be better off with a new domain more fitting to the changes I want to make? Thanks

rfgdxm1

5:20 am on Apr 4, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Stick with the old domain name unless you can quickly get all those inbound links changed to the new name. That "quite a number of links pointing to my page" makes me wonder how easy it would be to get these changed.

coosblues

5:26 am on Apr 4, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Very true. I had the same thoughts but thought I'd ask the experts. One thing it shows me though. People are not checking their links nearly as often as they should. I know if I had a link to a parked page it would have been dropped within days.

rfgdxm1

6:57 am on Apr 4, 2003 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



I was just looking through the reciprocal links page of a large, non-commercial site which is over 400 links. They obviously haven't gone through that to weed out the dead ones in at least 3 years. The number of dead links is huge. And, I checked some that did work, and found some going to sites that haven't been updated since 1998 that also had lots of dead links. Googleguy was right about how long links to dead domains stay around. PR5 is quite good. Not something that you want to casually abandon.