purchased a penalized domain

where the previous website did not violate Google's commandments

[Omni]

I have recently purchased a domain name for which I was going to put a website on after it has been built. The bad news is I was informed the domain name was penalized. After reviewing what the previous owner put on his previous website, I do not see anything about it that should have been penalized.

What I did: Contacted Google with a concise email, sent to the email address [e-mail] and informed them that I would be happy to supply any additional information.

Are there any other things or measures I should take to have the penalty lifted?

[vitaplease]

Have your tried putting some content on it and some inbound site external links to see how google takes it?

also: [webmasterworld.com...]

[Omni]

Nope have not as the site is still being built (not putting it online till everything is done). The problem was that prior to purchasing the domain name there were no Pagerank as far as I remember, after the ownership has been transfered it was given a PR0 :(

Will see what happens when I put the website online, was just curious if there were anything I should be doing being that happens.

[Beachboy]

The domain may not be penalized. Google has a new policy of zeroing out credit for backlinks on domains that expire. Get a few new inbound links and see what happens over the following month or two.

[pageoneresults]

If there was a penalty imposed, get another domain. You will be much better off starting fresh than trying to figure out how to lift whatever penalty may still be lingering. That PR0 is like a disease! ;)

If that is not an option, keep your fingers crossed and hope that a response is forthcoming from Google. Some penalties seem to be forever.

[ITcameleon]

Once you have a really good domain name, it's wotrh fighting. I'm in a similar situation with one site and I'm not giving up - no way! ;-) Hope you will succeed too!

[Omni]

Thank you everyone for replying!

The domain name did not expire. I purchased it from the previous owner who had a one-page site that was not related to anything that looked spammy. But Google seemed to have labelled it with a PR0.

If I could just get another domain name it would be great, but the name did not come cheap and was purchased because it was unique. Perhaps it is time to start crossing my fingers :(