Link Trade on Banned Domain

Are they paying attention

[graywolf]

Okay I had a domain banned a few month ago. Not whining about it, if you live on the edge it's bound to happen from time to time. Removed all the questionable stuff didn't come back. I'm over it.

All of the sudden I have been getting link requests from people who want to exchnage links with me, whats the deal? There is no content to speak of on the site, a dozen or so links out I left up but nothing of value, so what's up with these people?

Do I exchange links with them on an A->B basis or will that put the other domain at risk?

[neuron]

Let me get this right now. You've got a site banned by google meaning it disappeared from the SERPs, likely is gray-barred or has a PR0, and nothing's shown back up for the site even though some time has passed, you've fixed whatever was wrong, and I'll assume you know you need to email google and keep replying to their autoresponses 4 to 6 times before you ever get a live person who can make sure you're off the ban list, but regardless of all that, you're still dead in the water and people are blind contacting you for link exchanges and you're worried about their sites?

LOL

You are so sweet. I think I feel a tear welling up somewhere.

I don't think it is you who is putting them at risk. In fact, it sounds like a perfect match to me...banned site gets linked to by site seeking ban...

Very likely. considering the time of sandboxed links (61 to 95 days as estimated by graywolf himself), that you've done your due diligence, and remaining time in the penalty box, I'd say exchange links with them, in order to pull your site out of the bog, and have it make a decent showing in the SERPs in two to three more months. I mean, if you can't exchange links with these guys, who can you exchange links with?

[graywolf]

I'm not looking to get the site unbanned, it would never hold up under a manual review, I'm quite content to let it die.

What I'm thinking about doing is this

Banned site ---> someone else's site ---> my other site

If it works great I got a link and the poor sod requesting a link gets nothing. If it goes wrong I lose another site.

Yes it is completely banned, grey bar, completely removed from index. Not a case of being sandboxed, more likey a case of being kicked out of playground for playing with dangerous objects. Sometimes you have to test the line to know where it is.

[neuron]

Well then, I don't know. 'roun hea we jus bury our dead, we don't play with 'em.

To me it would seem like the site is now bogus and what good you are proposing to get out of it, could with little effort be done from a new site with minimal content that won't have a history, and then at least you'd have something you could do something with at some point down the road, but then you'd still have this site with those link requests coming in just going to waste.

Uh, and I apologize for calling you 'sweet', no offense intended.

[seeber01]

I don't see where the long term benefit would be for your other site by doing link exchanges the way you propose. If the sites link to your banned site, they are now in the "bad neighborhood" and risking bannishment, or bad placement themselves. This will eventually flow back to your other site. I would suggest, if their sites are good link exchange opportunities, that you do the direct exchange between them and your other site, let the banned one die a graceful death.

Debs