Domain Buying Scams

[Jason]

Well, SEO metrics have shortcomings. In that case, if someone is selling you a high DA domain, for instance, you need to do more research. Well, at first glance a high metric domain, especially for a low or reasonable price might seem like a goldmine, but beware.

Now another scam, one related to buying the domain and website, is where the traffic is fake. Well, people can buy traffic at cheap sources. The traffic could be low-quality and might even be bots!

 

[WebKitty]

A friend of mine fell for a scam. I am not sure how it even happened. They bought a blog for almost $5,000 and it was showing traffic and earnings of about $400 per month. He looked at it as a way to get stable online earning and improve it from there by pairing it alongside a blog he already had been growing himself under the same niche. Well, turns out the traffic was a bust, the content was outdated, and it wasn't earning much over $50.

 

[Jason]

@WebKitty

Well, it's amazing it was earning anything at all. Look at it this way: it could be built into something seeing as it does more than nothing. Nonetheless, your friend didn't get what was expected by a long shot.

 

[Shole]

Yeah I always wondered for some domains why they are so cheap and then you research them a bit to find that they have a lot of spammy backlinks or something crazy violations in google so they are basically useless.

 

[Busybee]

Buying “high DA” links from these scammers might goose your DA score for a while. But in the end, it will have zero effect in increasing any of the critical metrics from the organic search channel (traffic, sales, leads, etc.). Google pretty much ignores paid links these days. And if you use this one a lot, Google will just throw your website out of the index entirely. Please don’t risk it.

 

[Kane]

You need to ask the seller to give you viewable access to the Google Analytics account of the domain. This will let you check the exact analytics. High DA is a result of too many backlinks., high DA has nothing to do with your SEO power.