Don't Go After PR Domains

Today I learned a big lesson. It's been like a week that I was planning to buy a PRed domain and start a new blog. I had done that before also with and made huge money with it but it was a long time back. I didn't know that Google's algo has changed so much. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake. I can easily find PR3 - PR4 domain for under $70 and in a week's time I can easily start a back ordered posted PR3 blog and start making money out of it.

But it wasn't meant to be that easy. I bought a domain for $60 from with PR3. It didn't have any backlinks but it has a valid PR and was chached also and had site info also in Google. I checked the validity it using PR checking tools also and all were showing valid PR. So, I bought it. But to my surprise, as soon as I changed the hosting, the PR dropped to 0. And that gave me a shock. Then I started Googling out and tried stuffs like editing .htaccess files and other things but the PR didn't came back. After working for a week or so I had to give up on it and asked the seller for a refund. Luckily, the seller was a kind guy and he refunded my money and I returned the domain to him.

Moral of the story is never go after PR domains without doing a complete research.