I have a site, not in my signature, with a forum that basically got totally spammed. Over a few months a ton of links developed to garbage that were all robot generated. Clearly since this took a few months I should have been more proactive in stopping it but I wasn't! Anyway, a few weeks ago I parked the domain. However, there are still a ton of links in Google to old garbage pages that no longer exist. I know these will be removed from google eventually, but my question is, should I just let this happen or should I notify google of the situation? I saw some form for letting them know about dead links... I most likely want to use the domain again, but not for months or a year or more, so I just want Google to look as favorable as possible on the situation when I do. Thanks for any info.
If you want the domain to look favorable, make sure you put actual (preferably unique) content on the most linked pages, on subjects related to your original subject. Could be your original selection of affiliate links, for instance. Spend a week on making it a real site, though perhaps not of sterling quality. A parked domain is just going to get blacklisted on google - but if you clean up the content enough you can go back and actively work on the site any time. Spammy backlinks aren't really a problem if you also have good backlinks. A year from now your domain will be a year older ( = more trusted), but parking lowers the chances of that. That one week of investment now will mean a world of difference when you get serious about developing that domain a year or so from now.
I would just wait until Google drops the indexed pages by itself. It won't be more than couple month (which you are waiting that long anyways)...
Thanks for the responses both of you. It sounds like I won't be alerting Google and I will be trying to get something on the site if time permits.