Are my new resource sites worthless?

[draeseo]

I have ended up with several hundred sites which I purchased off the seo company I use as they went belly up.  I purchased them as I had spent a small fortune buying links for the years and I thought that if they went under all my links would be lost.

When they transferred the sites into my accounts in go daddy the owners names changed to one owner!  Therefore google either know that I own them or at the very least know that only a few people own them as I had four go daddy accounts. Previously they were all registered to different people.  The registrar details have since been changed to various owners but I guess the damage is done.  I have gone from pos3 pg1 to pos3 pg2.  I ranked highly for lots of terms and they have all dropped.

I don’t want to be using black hat techniques and my intention was to continue to build content on these sites with a view to adding links to other relevant sites in the future. Not all of them link to me and they do link to lots of other sites that the seo company did work for  To be honest my only concern short term was not to loose the links.  Now I feel the links are considered worthless by google and I don’t know if I should keep the sites or throw them away!

I think all the sites need redesigning and updating and this is what I intended to do.  However now that google have seen that they once were owned by one person have they become worthless?

[draeseo]

Hi ,

Thanks for your help.

Dave

[iPullRank]

Hey David,

It's hard to say as there has been no clear information from Google on how they use registration data. They are however a registrar and there has been most SEOs will tell you the age of a domain does factor into trust. In the past people have seen links devalued once a WHOIS record went from private to a person's name. In other words what you're suggesting is very possible, but it's hard to say that since you were named the owner once that the domains will no longer be worthwhile.

The real issue here is that what you own is essentially a link/content farm and therefore these sites may have been devalued due to Panda. Ultimately link and content farms are not a sustainable solution and you should think more about content marketing and attracting links via the awesome stuff you would be creating.

I would suggest consolidating into a smaller number of sites, 301 redirecting the link equity and then launching content strategies that align with your business goals.

-Mike