tedster - 7:00 pm on Jul 13, 2012 (gmt 0)

This is one of the reasons to be cautious when purchasing an expired domain - it's past sins can haunt you as well as its assets. The answer to the "past sins" part is to verify a Webmaster Tools account and message Google from there that you are a new owner and would like to start with a clean slate. Yes, you lose the assets too, but if you have purchased a legacy penalty, it's better to start over.