The World's #1 Forum For Anything To Do With Buying And Selling WebsitesRegisterHelpRemember Me?HomeForumBlogsRecent EntriesMost PopularMember BlogsWhat's New?Premium MembershipNewsletterNewbie GuideAdvanced SearchBlogscrabfootYour Mother Didn't Mention This!This forum is the leading forum bar none for discussions on website buying and selling. Why not click the button above to follow us on LinkedIn?You can view some of this site but you can't see our best posts and threads yet. You need to be a member and be making posts to make the most of Experienced People. You can register here. You need to become a Premium Member if you want to see the really good stuff, or advertise in the Marketplace. Questions? Our FAQ and Forum Rules may help.Premium Membership is now open to subscriptions. The Marketplace is open for business, and the Premium Lounge is open for private discussions.You can find out more about the benefits of Premium Membership here:Subscribe to Premium Membership!crabfootYour Mother Didn't Mention This!Rate this EntryExcellentGoodAverageBadTerrible1 Commentby crabfootView ProfileView Forum PostsPrivate MessageView Blog EntriesView Articles, September 20th, 2012 at 9:03 pm  (2428 Views)I got one of those letters saying, in essence, As the owner of wxy .com we thought we'd let you know we are selling the related domain vwx .com. First to pay $299 gets it ...Now, we've discussed these offers on E-P before. First thing you do is to check it out with a domain search at your favourite registrar. I went to Dynadot, found the domain was free to register for $8.99.Now, the first thing you want to know about a dropped domain is if it has any backlinks, so I checked it out for backlinks at alexa.com .Alexa showed the domain as having one backlink. I clicked on the number 1 to see which site was linking to the domain, and the page didn't show the linking site - which is the point of this blog post.Alexa will tell you a link exists, but it doesn't show the linking domain if it is a "bad neighbourhood" domain. So if Alexa shows a domain as having 37 backlinks, you click on the 37 and you only get shown 35 links, there are two sites in there that Alexa would not give house room to.So I didn't take up that dropped domain - it is hard enough to get good links these days without trying to start a site with a bad link.Just one of those trivial things your mother didn't think to mention ...Categories‎UncategorizedEmail Blog Entry« PrevMainNext »CommentsClinton-September 22nd, 2012 4:30 pmReplyGood point. It makes sense for these sellers to buy some cheap links to their domains and I can see that really working for them when they send these emails out!Leave CommentvBulletin MessageCancel Changes+ Create BlogcrabfootGo to ProfileMark as ReadJoin DateOct 2010LocationEast YorkshirePosts1,916Blog Entries7Blog CategoriesLocal CategoriesUncategorizedRecent CommentsYour Mother Didn't Mention This!by ClintonKeywords that pay!by crabfootPeo