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I have had some other webmasters contact me wanting to exchange links. Is there any chance that this exchanging of links could hurt my standings in yahoo or msn?
Is there a way to confirm that the domain has been banned from Google? I have submitted to google, but have yet to see googlebot.
Thanks for any information/assistance.
If it has like 100 backlinks from many sites and you have pr 1 or 2 it is likely you have a google penalty.
Problem is some of my penalised sites still get visits from googlebot but i know they are have a penalty as the green bar stays at 0 or 1 and more importantly than page rank (which is a load of bull anyway), they have no serps.
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The domain had expired, but I purchased it from the original owner who still have renewal time.
So not sure if the google links could have went away when it expired. Just speculation though as I do not know if that would happen.
Google became a domain registrar to track just such things. So, they may know the domain expired and even transferred ownership. And it may be that knowing that they cancelled all the links to the domain.
If this is the case, and you intend to keep using the domain for the same subject matter, and site revisions are kept to a minimum, that you could possibly contact google and have the links re-instated, have the site brought back from the dead.
Also, from what I understand, getting Google's attention and favorable action is going to be difficult, and will likely require that you send half a dozen emails before you get someone to actually look at the problem and deal with it. Initially, you will get an automated response from them. Reply with patience and stick to the issues asking for review. Eventually, you may get a real person to respond who can take some action in your behalf.
I, for one, would be very interested in what happens, please keep us posted.
Also, welcome to WebmasterWorld.
