James
Top Contributor
I have been researching alot of domains recently, just wanted to give one heads up to any new domain buyers =)
I see some guys buying domains which are banned from the Google index, or buying a website which has been hacked. It is the same as buying a block of land and then you can not build a house on the land, and even if you try and re request the council to allow you to build they may never do it.
Same thing with Google if a domain is banned from Google, and the people who owned the domain before you have sent endless re-consideration forms in it may never get back in the index. Sure you have Bing and Blekko but in Australia Google is king.
A good way to search before you buy a domain is by putting the domain into Google and looking for webmaster help threads where people ask why the domain is banned ect, then people reply and say why and it is not getting back into the index (easily).
Another thing is hacked website, I have seen a few websites which have been hacked and thousands of links are from porn and gambeling websites so they also run into indexing problems with Google. (I will admit I fell for one domain recently with these issues, I didn't do enough research before buying)
End story is to do a lot of research =)
But if you want to take a risk on the domain go ahead (don't listen to me) I just have seen a few domains on recent drops which I like at first but after researching I see problems with all of the above.
Regards.
I see some guys buying domains which are banned from the Google index, or buying a website which has been hacked. It is the same as buying a block of land and then you can not build a house on the land, and even if you try and re request the council to allow you to build they may never do it.
Same thing with Google if a domain is banned from Google, and the people who owned the domain before you have sent endless re-consideration forms in it may never get back in the index. Sure you have Bing and Blekko but in Australia Google is king.
A good way to search before you buy a domain is by putting the domain into Google and looking for webmaster help threads where people ask why the domain is banned ect, then people reply and say why and it is not getting back into the index (easily).
Another thing is hacked website, I have seen a few websites which have been hacked and thousands of links are from porn and gambeling websites so they also run into indexing problems with Google. (I will admit I fell for one domain recently with these issues, I didn't do enough research before buying)
End story is to do a lot of research =)
But if you want to take a risk on the domain go ahead (don't listen to me) I just have seen a few domains on recent drops which I like at first but after researching I see problems with all of the above.
Regards.
