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First post here :) . Was trying to find other posts on this subject, but did not find my exact situation.
In February of this year a client of ours chose a new shorter domain name. I did some research on this forum and another and decided to do a permanent 301 redirect. I also updated backlinks to point to the new site (some PR4, one PR5 site).
Googlebot visited 3 times in February to the new site and has never been back to the new site.
It is now June 1st, no googlebot visits since that original 3 visits, not indexed by google, and I have no idea what to do now. Our client is wondering what is going on (I told them it can take up to 10 weeks) but we're already beyond that.
I have made sure the 301 redirect is correct by utilizing a checker, have added a few new links over the last month to the new site just to try and get google to visit, no luck. When I visit the site, it is not grey, just white with PR0.
Here are some questions I have:
1. I'm starting to wonder if the new domain name is blacklisted for some reason? I checked archive website and discovered the domain name used to be an adult site. Is there a way to find out if a site is blacklisted?
2. For those of you who changed domain names, how long did it take for google to find the new site?
3. Any suggestions or advice that you can give me?
Thanks for any help! I've written google around a week and a half ago with no reply. I can add the URL of the site somewhere if that's helpful, don't want to violate this forum's rules.
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Today, google is showing the old domain again in its search results with a PR of 2. previously the old domain had been completely gone when it had the 301 redirect pointing to the new domain.
The new domain is still nowhere to be found, I just think it's very strange that the old domain would appear within a day of removing the 301 redirect whereas the new one has been invisible for 3 months now.
The more I think about this, the more I'm starting to think the new domain may be blacklisted somehow. argh this is so frustrating, I have no idea what to do.
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>the domain name used to be an adult site.
This could very likely be your problem. Sounds like there is a good chance of there being a penalty on the domain. Adult webmasters go through domains fast and let them expire. Sounds like you got a bad one.
I would pick up another clean domain and redirect the original site to it. Get a good 25+ links to the new domain. Try to get a PR6 link. This should solve your problem fast. You could have Google visiting in just a couple days.
