Need some help from Google experts please...

[KimberlyBlogger]

I love the artist Pink and I was thinking about bidding on this domain name... gopink.com

... but something does not make sense in Google search results here.

if you search for http://www.gopink.com/ on Google you get http://www.pinkspage.com/ listed in the results.

if you do a link:http://www.gopink.com/ on Google.... you get a bunch of pages pointing back to Pinkspage.com.

the domain is PR6 but is it just hijacking results from pinkspage.com?

Thanks for your help,

- KB

[SEOforGoogle]

Without knowing all the details involved, it would be hard to pin-point exact details as to what is happening. I was not able to pull up the url in question (gopink.com). I did a whois and it's currently being held (as you're aware since you are going to bid on it).

It looks like they could just be doing a redirect to that page so that they can pick up the PR of that site, and then sell it at an inflated price. Remember, once you buy a domain, Google resets the PR back to "0", regardless of what the previous owner had for the site.

[KimberlyBlogger]

Thanks for the reply.

I think I'll stay away from this domain.

- KB

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Do you know if the site gets Sandboxed after it transfers owners?
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[SEOforGoogle]

If you want to use that term, by all means, then yes, it will get "sandboxed" until you can prove that it's a legit site and content is relevant.

[incrediblehelp]

Try to never buy domains because of PR. All your doing is asking for troubles. Buy domains because you feel they will be good matches for your business model.