N00b question about buying domains and inbound links

[maffs]

On a lot of posts in this forum buying aged domains has been seen to be the way of beating the infamous Google sandbox.

That made a lot of sense to me so I started looking for some to buy.

I now have a question on links. I have found a site for sale (name only not the website itself). This site has quite a few inbound links from many other sites. Of course the pages the links point to will not exist once I buy it.

Is there any way I can take advantage of the previous owners link building.

Will a link still count for Google's purposes if the original page no longer exists, I somehow doubt it. Can I catch all the incoming invalid links and point them to a new page on the site?

Thanks

 

[AdHustler]

Just figure out what pages that the old links are pointing to and create those pages on your site.

Then redirect then to your main domain. All done

 

[phyza]

If you still don't get it , just ask with some more specifications but i think so narsticle had cleared it out

 

[crooner]

Put the new ('used') domain on your server and watch the error log - you'll see each of the pages that are missing from the old site.

Add an .htaccess 301 redirect for each one as you see it showing up. Don't redirect them all just to your domain - pass around that great traffic to various deep links in your site, preferrably pages that are somewhat relevant to the old page.

 

[maffs]

Great advice everyone.

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

I hadn't thought of watching the log file for the errors, seems so logical now you've said it crooner.

Cheers guys

 

[fm1234]

Why would one need a 301 for each page? Wouldn't a custom 404 page do the same thing with a fraction of the work? Specific dead page links that are on the first page of the SERPs or get lots of traffic could always have their own specific redirect, but starting with one universal redirect would be a hell of a lot easier.


Frank