Hey Everyone, So I bought a domain name about 4 months ago and forwarded it directly to an affiliate site. However I'm now realizing it's a great domain name & I should have optimized it for the search engines, established backlinks, made videos and started driving visitors to it other ways as well, what was I thinking all this wasted time? lol so I have a question.... Since it has been forwarded for over 4 months, can I suddenly create a real website and have Google and other search engines accept it? Will the pagerank begin to increase if I use normal SEO tactics even though Google must have it labeled as a useful forwarded site right now? There are already about 300-350 links to the site out there, will they count has backlinks or has Google already written them off? Any help or advice is very much appreciated Danny
Normally google penalize jump pages, but from my experience I do not think it will have any influenze if you change your site to have content. I have done something similar a few months back and my site ranks just perfect after changing the content completely. So I'll say you should give it a shoot Googles indexing doesn't bother much about the past as I see it... Good luck mate!
In SEO forum you will definitely get better answer, as far as my opinion is concern I had seen lots of affiliates doing the same.
All I can say is that Google doesn't like redirects.. I have some websites that are currently redirected.. I'm using some techniques to bring in traffic other than SE traffic therefore I wouldn't care about Google. The thing is they have been actual websites before redirecting them, indexed in Google with quite a high page rank. Within a month or two they have been thrown out of Google's index ...