The PR4 link is from the person who I hired to code a theme and setup a few things on my future site. It is his portfolio page. So I doubt it is ever coming down. My site doesn't have any real content (only "testing" content) and it is about a full month away from being released. I bought the domain name from GoDaddy 17 months ago. I moved it to another registrar about 7 months ago. I checked Google and it is listed in the SERPS for the domain name and site title. It is already cached by Google too. With all the above being said, do you think Google will less likely throw me in the sandbox after I lauch and SEO my website next month?
Make sure the site content has the same keywords as your domain & site title.. oh and also the backlink anchor text!
In my opinion I don't think you are going to be sandboxed, but links aging is the only delay you might go through
Yeah you shouldn't have any issue with sand box on an old domain like that. Just start building relevant links asap, as I'm guessing that a web design portfolio link isn't totally relevant to what your site is about. Tom.
I highly recommend that you do not allow google to crawl your site at the moment as it is not complete at the moment. Having a PR4 link will most likely result in google crawling your site. Use robots file to block google from crawling your site.
yeah, you have to use robots.txt to ensure that Google will not crawl the site. It will look bad to the SERPS they don't like seeing pages under construction & it will only hurt you in the end.