What domainers may want to learn before purchasing a domain + ranking package
Have you ever been approached by someone trying to sell you a domain with a ranking attached? This counter-intuitive conundrum comes up consistently among my colleagues. If the domain is already ranking, why is the current owner not simply trying to monetize the traffic instead of the domain? I’m an advocate of buying sites with solid link profiles, as I’m sure every SEO is, but I’m not a fan of buying sites based on a current ranking without some investigation into the nature of where that ranking came from. Sometimes you buy a horse, and come home with a donkey.
In this article I would like to go over the methodology I employ in these situations – a good old fashioned backlink profile examination for domain and ranking value. I’m actually going to use a real-world example simply because the concepts will come across with greater ease, and because I know that in SEO, a little solidity goes a long way. I’m not trying to out anyone for anything – as you’ll see my conclusion isn’t completely conclusive anyway – if you happen to own the site I’m talking about, good for you, you’ll likely end up selling it for profit. (more…)
Here’s a video that Agustin found on the “Interwebs”:
Erik talks about his attempts to find love on the main social platforms to promote his own website, Famous Last Nerds. Those guys are well-known in the funny videos field since their participation on the Robot Chicken stop motion animated show in US.
Link sex doesn’t exist yet but link love does 
So here’s my gift for your genius viral video!
NVI has been so overwhelmed by our organic growth (we’ve been doubling in employees every year since we started the company) that we never really had the time to setup our English blog… until now
I’m so glad this is happening. Julie Babin did an amazing job with Julien Roudaut to get this blog up and the rest of the dev team (including Marie-Eve Bournival and Alexandre Bussières) did worked like crazy to get this up and running.
And now, it’s up to everyone at NVI to keep this blog alive… We’ve been very quiet over the last few years (besides a strong presence in 2006-2007 on SEOmoz.org and since 2007 on Go-Referencement.org), and we intend to participate more in the industry to help it grow and help it defines itself as time goes and Google refines it’s algorithmn.
You will see several NVI disciplines covered by our posts and we will challenge ourselves to bring you the finest explanations, tips, guides and how to’s to get your business or your expertise and skills to the next level.
We expect anyone interested in the field to participate and challenge every subject we approach here. We are friends with everyone who respects our industry and expect “common sense” to be a second nature.
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