I am in the process of purchasing two sites from someone for a significant $XXXXX amount. They are very good sites and excellent domain names in a very competetive industry, but they are apparently sandboxed due to age - 8 months and five months old. I have been shown the results of an allinanchor search which is apparently a good predictor and it's page 1 for the best keyphrase. How can I be sure it is simply sandboxed and not penalised and they're trying to offload it on me? It's pretty cheap for what it is... How accurate is allinanchor as a predictor? There are many backlinks and it's currently PR5 with predicted PR7 on iwebtool. Can give site details if PM. Thanks if you are able to offer any information!!
If a site has been penalized, other sites will rank above it for its own domain name. For example, if you wanted to buy the site greatbigsillycameras.com and typed greatbigsillycameras into google and found directory sites that linked to greatbigsillycameras.com ranking higher than greatbigsillycameras.com itself, it's a good bet that greatbigsillycameras.com has been penalized.
I have just noticed that there is another website that has copied the content completely... could this be a cause for being penalised? It ranks ok for less popular phrases, and number 2 on msn for my main phrase but is not in the top 1000 on google..... Can PM details and pay for analysis if anyone can help diagnose this
what is future rating? I just made a site and I'm trying to figure out the page rating and future page rating systems. Thanks.