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Re:How Expedia Buys Its Way To The Top Of Google by riffraff on Sunday December 29, 2013 @04:48AM (#6979036)
how would that work? I mean, the old links would still point to it so the juice would still flow in that direction. What if the content stays the same but the owner is different?
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Re:How Expedia Buys Its Way To The Top Of Google by davemel37 on Sunday December 29, 2013 @11:35AM (#6980076)
By discounting all links from before the date it expired.

People used to snatch up expired domains and use the internet archives to put back up the same content and than slowly add links to their sites...

Because of this spam, Google just ignores links to a domain that expired that are from before it went live if the new registrant is a different person I presume but don't know.

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