I have a site which is running since last 2 years or so. The domain ranks well in yahoo and msn but when it comes to Google, I hardly recieve any traffic. Infact, there are 20 days when it recieves just 3-4 visits on avg from google and then suddenly it goes upto 30-40 a day for little time(a week) and then back again to 3-4. This cycle gets repeated. I tried to find out what is wrong with my domain and found through archive.org that it was a dropped domain and one of its owners actually used junk content on it for quite some time. Now, I am willing to believe that google has set a penalty on my domain. But the question is what should I do to get rid of this penalty as I have not done anything wrong. Should I buy a new domain and do a 301 to from old to new domain? Will doing this solve my problem, please advise.
first check with google webmaster tool?.. may be any type of penalty like duplicate content, meta data etc will shown... also u can get the externel links... once all indexed properly should get some traffic from google...also freee to share ur promotional tech
Which is your domain? Also, as rena said, sign into webmaster tools, and there ask Google people to remove a penalty (if any), explaining them that are a new owner that purchase a dropped domain.
I have checked in webmaster tools and everything there is absolutely fine. There are external links too.