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SEOEgghead
Jun 28th 2006, 8:14 am
I have experienced this and would like to share it, and/or see if anyone has had similar issues with expired domains:

I acquired an expired domain via SnapNames. It wasn't a pre-expiration -- it actually dropped and then get reacquired.

For a period remarkably around 6 months, even after talking to Matt Cutts briefly (at SES NYC 2006) about it in the context of the site specifically as well as exploring the possibility that a penalty like that doesn't make sense, the site refused to get indexed. The spider didn't even touch the site. Occasionally the mobile bot hit the site seemingly randomly. There were no systematic crawls. One day it just started crawling (and deeply) according to my logs.

Now it gets spidered, but it's in the "sandbox," so we're being dealt another blow by these painful algorithmic penalties.

So before I bother with another expired domain, is this anyone else's experience? I'm pretty sure there was no spam penalty applied to the domain, as I looked at it in archive.org before touching it. A penalty like that just seems excessive, but has anyone else seen this? It's rather painful, but life goes on.
enQuira
Jun 28th 2006, 8:34 am
I purchased a "clean" expired domain. It has never been indexed by google. crawls it regularly, shows stats im google sitemap. It even assigned PR to it lately (last month) !!! around 100 pages, all PR3. and no page in the index. It has been like this for 6 months or so
alemcherry
Jun 28th 2006, 9:34 am
hmm.. that sounds weired!
BRABUS
Jun 30th 2006, 4:59 am
I purchased a "clean" expired domain. It has never been indexed by google. crawls it regularly, shows stats im google sitemap. It even assigned PR to it lately (last month) !!! around 100 pages, all PR3. and no page in the index. It has been like this for 6 months or so


Can you share with us where and how do you finf expired domains?
LuffE
Jul 3rd 2006, 10:41 am
www.dotcenter.com is a free expired domain search engine
uberman
Jul 5th 2006, 3:22 am
Can you share with us where and how do you finf expired domains?

there are quite a few expired domain services ard like
http://www.expireddomains.com/
http://www.dotcenter.com/
:)
Raiko
Jul 6th 2006, 4:01 pm
Is it possible that the previously existing site was banned from Google's index? Maybe after a period of time the ban is removed and Google will re-index the domain. Just a guess.
zefefre
Jul 8th 2006, 4:39 am
ahhhhh,, so thats the reason. I bought an expired domain 2 month ago. I even didnt know if it was an expired domain until a week ago from www.archive.org I saw the previous site using my domain name.

I see some search engine bots crawl my site from the webstats, but its only get indexed by search engines other than google. Is it gonna be like this forever??? Do you think its worthy to keep building link popularity and promoting this domain??
agnivo007
Jul 8th 2006, 4:55 am
of course, new backlinks will instill faith and google will reindex