Does a website keep its Google PageRank after you buy it?

[Jake]

Ranking should generally stick, search engines supposedly examine the whois data for a domain name, this may be the only indication of changing hands.

Remember page rank is only updated about 5 times a year, so the effect of changes is not seen for a while, you can find a calendar giving the dates, the rank of a site might have already changed before it is bought, the rank display has just not been updated to show recent changes.


Some content changes can cause a short term dip that it will recover from.