How to handle correctly a penalized domain?

I waited long enough - still penalized - Gotta move

[carlr]

Hi

I have a penalized domain because it was bought when expired. I added many links since (Yahoo, DMOZ etc) but they are not recognized by Google and SERPS are awful, even if all pages are indexed (all PR0 - Home page dropped to PR3, was PR5). I won't go through all the story again - It's penalized, I waited more than 2 months and nothing changed so I want to move on and rebuild on a new, clean and not previously owned domain. I lost enough time/money waiting for the "next update".

Now here's my question .. how to do this correctly?

- Install the new domain on the same IP address as the old one? It's going to be the same content anyway...

- If I install the new domain on a new IP address, Google will see 2 websites with the same content but hosted at 2 different IP's

Anybody has experience on this?

Thanks

[GoogleGuy]

Hi, carlr. I would write to webmaster at google.com with the subject line "reinclusion request" and explain the situation.

[carlr]

Thanks GG - I'll try this for sure. That would save my client time and money if it works - Have a nice week end

[AAnnAArchy]

Instead of having to write for a reinclusion request, how about Google stops using the expired domain filter until it works properly?