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This actually happened to me: https://www.voo.st/ https://www.voo.st/ We shut down the business an abandoned the domain. Someone registered the domain, create
by stickfigure 5y ago
This actually happened to me:
https://www.voo.st/ https://www.voo.st/
We shut down the business an abandoned the domain. Someone registered the domain, created a similar-looking website by hand (recycling a lot of the text and images), and added spam. It even has my old company address.
This is a .st domain, about $35/yr. The web design work cost something too. More than I would have expected the link juice from a single website to be worth.
What we really need is some sort of DNS record or meta content we can add that tells search engines "this domain is being abandoned, destroy all link juice".
- PaulHoule 5y agoThe traffic you get from people following links is measurable (and real!) The traffic you get from "link juice" is imagined. The original PageRank paper assumed that PageRank approximated the distribution of views on web pages assuming that people followed links at random. If Google wanted to know what people are viewing today, they don't need to collect a link graph and do matrix math. They can measure it directly with Chrome, Google Analytics and data exhaust from the advertising platform.