3.5 months and my .org site is still not even base indexed by google.

The domain is second hand (CPC parked before), what can I do proactively?

[Christopher C]

It's become very obvious now that the domain I'm using is not liked by google. It's closing in on 4 months now that I've had the site complete and haven't worried about it, just proceeding as normal looking for links, submitting to directories etc.

Talking to my friend however, who is in the same boat, has a site that's been black listed by google for about 8 months. Same deal, quality site, dmoz listed, clean (html/css compliant, etc).

In both cases we picked these domains up off of the reseller market where they were parked for CPC profits. The domain in my case dropped at least 6 months ago, and isn't showing anything in archive.org since 2002.

I wonder if I could solicit some suggestions on what I can do proactively in order to get this site recognized.

At current a google site:mydomain.com inurl:mydomain.com returns nothing.

Thanks,
Chris

[globo]

Perhaps, some will disagree with me, but I have a feeling that those second hand domains have some sort of black mark in the eyes of google. I don't think your domain will show up in index any time soon and even if it does it will have mediocre google traffic.

[Christopher C]

I'm *certain* the domain has a black mark on it and talking with my friend, I'm certain it has to do with the CPC junk where it was parked.

That said, the domain itself is not junk nor is the site that's sitting on it.

What I'd like to figure out are some things I can do proactively to get the domain fixed. Certainly there must be something that can be done, no?

Thanks,
Chris

[pageoneresults]

If you think your site may fall into this category, you might try 'cleaning up' the page and sending a re-inclusion request to [e-mail].

I think the above is probably your first and only option right now. Either that or get another domain and start from scratch. From my knowledge of reading and posting here, once a domain is blacklisted, 9 out of 10 times it may take an act of a higher power to get it unblacklisted.

[Christopher C]

As an aside, googlebot visited the site once last february and since that time has not returned at all (despite being linked from a quality PR5 site).

[Christopher C]

Thanks pageoneresults,

I've sent the email, hopefully they will be able to help out.

Chris

[cabbie]

If you are going to spend your hard earned and sweat and toil on a website, always,always buy a clean, new domain.
Always.;)

[Christopher C]

hehe well it *looked* clean. Before this I didn't know that CPC could do so much damage to a domain.

Oh well, live and learn I suppose.

[LuckyDog]

I recently bought a domain that some service was sitting on. I'm about to launch a site on it, but now I'm worried. How do I know if it is "clean" in Google's eyes?

[Christopher C]

I would suggest pointing at it from another domain with PR4+. Then start taking a look at your logs to see what kind of googlebot activity you're getting.

In our case, there's absolutely none so we've got a pretty good idea something is wrong.

I've also read that the google toolbar will show as "grey" when a site is blacklisted. Ours is showing as the standard white background so I don't know how solid the advice is about using the toolbar.

[cabbie]

>>>I've also read that the google toolbar will show as "grey" when a site

thats nonsense.
I have some perfectly banned sites that have white bar.
If the domain is just an recent expired domain and no other penalties are attached to it,expect about 12 months before it can start scoring in google's serps again.

[Christopher C]

>>I have some perfectly banned sites that have white bar. <<

LOL