Sort of a Newbie Question?

[Felina]

This Topic may have to be moved into a new forum, figured this may be the best place for it.
I had a domain which was a pr 6 or 7 been both at times, and a couple of months ago it was banned in Google due to the fact that it was registered prior to me having it but had been expired for over 6 months.
It is a purely content domain, nothing shady since I wouldn't evem know how.:-)
It is in Ink as well and getting some traffic from there.
Is it possible to move all the content to a .net version of the domain, or a hyphenated version amd just put up a redirect?
Will this be seen a spamming or would the new content eventually get spidered and picked up?

[jdMorgan]

Felina,

This is a good question, and hopefully bumping it up will get you some answers. Make sure you give your threads descriptive titles and descriptions - that'll help them get more attention.

It wasn't clear from your post - Did the site have PR6 and PR7 while you owned it, or was that before you bought it?

It may also have had a shady past. Or possibly, the old incoming links are being ignored - Googleguy said they intended to ignore incoming links to sites which changed owners after the links were established. In that case you'll need to get some new incoming links, and that's a good opportunity to get better ones, with your favorite phrases used for the link-text.

Other than that, make sure you're not linking to any "bad neighborhoods", and read the Google "Quality Guidelines" in their "Webmasters" section.

Hopefully, someome will come along who's had a similar problem to yours, and can give you better answers.

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Jim

[Felina]

Thank Jim, I guess I'm a pot of coffee or a shot of tequila short whichever is your preference..lol
I registered the domain and got it to a pr 6 within 4 months thru a lot of hard work and link exchanges myself.
I went thru archive.org after I had been dropped from Google and the site was just someone's personal homepage site about model trains, nothing shady on it at all.
I'm not sure about the old incoming links, since the domain looked like it had been expired at least 6 months previous to me registering it.
All the 200 plus new links I added after getting the site up and running are nowhere to be found and neither are any old links either.
Either way I wonder if it is worth waiting or if I should just roll all the stuff over to a new domain and maybe leave a redirect from the old one.?
The new domain idea is a very tempting one, but I don't want it to be seen as spamming the engines..

[jdMorgan]

Hmmm... I'd get more links, and better links. It just sounds like the link exchanges got zapped, and so your site did too... Just speculating, though.

I can tell you how to do redirects - the techy stuff. But I've never been banned, so I can't answer whether you should.

Jim