PPC parking ruining development potential for domains on google?

Which ones do it and why?

[Christopher C]

In what has turned into a very disappointing purchase (from about 6 months ago now), we've developed a .org domain that we purchased. We tend to work quickly and the planning on how the domain should be developed was done prior to the purchase. This domain, just happened to be a perfect fit and the price was right too.

That said, 6 months later, we're still white barred despite dmoz listings and solid inbound links. For all intents and purposes this domain is broken but this isn't the topic of this post.

Why is this domain broken?
Before purchasing a domain, especially now, we look very carefully into what the domain was used for previously. Both through historical whois, whether it was dropped/deleted, and archive.org analysis of content.

For this particular domain, it was used a number of years ago for just a small personal website, afterwards being parked at ppc. The last archive.org record is from 2001 and looks like ultsearch. When we bought it I think it was parked at sedo but I'm not certain now.

Is it the PPC that did it?
Has anyone else had experience with this? A friend of mine also picked up a PPC .org domain and it took 8 months for the PR to finally show up. It's still not performing like a fresh domain would have however.

What should I learn?
I like buying domains, both for the type-in value and branding. Some domains I'm catching in the drop market, others I'm purchasing. I realize that google discounts all the backlinks now in a drop, but what else is missing here? Is there a way I can do a valuation on a domain before purchasing in terms of google black marks?

Thanks,
Chris

[Christopher C]

Noone has had any experience like this?

Maybe I can rephrase the question. For those active in purchasing and developing "used" domains, what steps do you go through to check whether a domain is black listed before purchasing. Assume further that the domain is currently being parked.

Any ideas?

At the moment all I'm really doing is checking the domain as it stands today (i.e. backlinks, directory listings, content, etc.) and also archive.org. Beyond that I guess just cross my fingers.

[ogletree]

This is a topic that people who know would never tell. That is a trade secret. It is closely guarded. Buying domains for G value is very secretive. I normally avoid parked domains. I am looking into it now but I don't know yet. When I do I would never tell anyone.

[Christopher C]

hmm, I'm coming at it more from the opposite end and trying to avoid domains that have no google value. While I can see potentially where there might be overlap, I just don't want to end up with anymore G lemons.

Seeing a white bar and a 0 index on google for months is decidedly not fun after buying/developing a parked domain. Lately I've been so lucky as to be 2 for 2 in terms of buying junk.

Makes me further wonder what kind of damage I'm doing to my portfolio by parking the unused ones.

[Clark]

I wrote Google about a case like this. They told me there was no penalty on the site. Denied anything was wrong with it etc. But after about one year of being PR0 the next day it got PR6. Definitely write Google.

[raymond4unc]

I picked up a "good" domain name that someone else let go and no one picked up, only to find when I seperate the URL and search in google, many many many sites come up that are all different, but redirect you to a porn site. If I can get ranked above these, I'll be okay, but if they are all linking to eachother, I don't see how I can do this. What a challenge. BTW, if I report this to google, will they bump these sites? and couldn't they just put up the same pages with different domanin names?

[raymond4unc]

I think I just figured out how to start spamming LOL

[nuevojefe]

Write google. PR can be turned on overnight.