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      • JohnSammon
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        Hey Artur,

        Great question! Is the site that you are planning on buying the domain for related to yours?

        My personal opinion on this is that it gets into a grey hat area. You're rolling the dice a bit and I would proceed with caution as Google may be savvy enough to be one step ahead of you. If the site is related to your website, it may work (if you do it once). However, I would discourage this practice (especially doing it as a link building tactic multiple times).

        I would be curious as to other SEO's say.

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          • KevinBudzynski
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            In theory this will probably work. However, Google is pretty savvy and may catch on. Google regularly crawl these sites and noticed that these links are 404's. All of sudden, these links point to a live domain w/a 301 to a new site. If this a common occurrence, the pattern may be recognized and they take some sort of action. Good luck!

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