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Purchased Domain Disappears

         

imate

9:14 am on Feb 26, 2011 (gmt 0)

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I purchased premium domain two days ago which was in top 10 in Google SERP.
The site used to has standard domain companies adverts, say somewhere “Buy This Domain”
I have uploaded relative 10 pages.
Yesterday it has gone! I don’t see my domain in any Google search result even when I search myDomain.com
It looks like the website has been banned by Google.

Any idea why and what can I do?

goodroi

1:54 pm on Feb 26, 2011 (gmt 0)

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Hi imate,

I am not sure what you mean by premium domain vs standard domain.

How much unique text is on your 10 pages?
Are your pages returning a 200 status code?
How many backlinks are pointing to it?
Have you submitted a sitemap for the website?
Are there any messages in Google Webmaster Central?

Existing websites that have good amounts of content and backlinks are not typically banned when they are sold.

Sgt_Kickaxe

3:36 pm on Feb 26, 2011 (gmt 0)



I think imate means he purchased a dropped domain, at a premium, but is surprised to find that Google has now de-indexed the previous site.

imate, if that's the case, the previous rankings were based on the previous site. The only way to maintain those rankings is to have the exact same url structure and virtually the same content.

Your 10 pages are new pages and will have no rank in Google, yet. Congrats on the new domain, I hope you didn't overpay too heavily for the old rankings.

imate

4:29 pm on Feb 26, 2011 (gmt 0)

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Thanks all

Kickaxe: I meant exactly what you said

TheMadScientist

4:30 pm on Feb 26, 2011 (gmt 0)

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Any idea why and what can I do?

File a reconsideration request.

My guess is the site was propped up with garbage links to give it a high PR / value / inflated traffic stats and when you bought it those were pulled. It could well be if that's the case (propped up with garbage links) it was removed by this update for what was there before you bought it.

I'd build a site on it and then file a reconsideration request.

pabloid

1:26 pm on Feb 28, 2011 (gmt 0)

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I'd file a reconsideration request but I imagine Google will want to know why you bought a dropped domain.

HuskyPup

1:31 pm on Feb 28, 2011 (gmt 0)



I imagine Google will want to know why you bought a dropped domain.


Why?

netmeg

1:34 pm on Feb 28, 2011 (gmt 0)

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There's no point in submitting a reconsideration request. When you buy a domain (or a site) everything gets reset; you pretty much have to start over.

pabloid

2:29 pm on Feb 28, 2011 (gmt 0)

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@HuskyPup

My assumption is if you buy a dropped domain for the fact that it had PR then they wouldn't be happy about it.

Correct me if I'm wrong though!