> Therefore, in the case of PageRank and SEO-potential: It is better to try to buy domains of local companies in your area that went out of business. These are much stronger.
I never understood how this works.
What do you do with these domains? Do you just redirect them to the main business site or do you create a supporting site on them that heavily links to the business site?
Anyway the old domains won't get any new attention if you don't work on that and then you can just can work on your main domain.
> Anyway the old domains won't get any new attention if you don't work on that and then you can just can work on your main domain.
It doesn't have to get any attention. Links (or a redirect, or other things) from it will still (massively, depending on the quality of the domain) improve your ranking.
You could also throw some unrelated content on it, and will likely rank for quite a while until somebody complains loud enough that Google manually sets up a -100 on your domain.
I never understood how this works. What do you do with these domains? Do you just redirect them to the main business site or do you create a supporting site on them that heavily links to the business site?
Anyway the old domains won't get any new attention if you don't work on that and then you can just can work on your main domain.