Hi, I am interested in purchasing a website that was recently doing very well in the search engines, but the company went bankrupt. Since they went bankrupt, they have just put a notification up on the website that the site is no longer operating and all the pages that used to be on the site and indexed, now just show the same message and 404 headers. My question is - If I purchase this site, and put the old site back up exactly as it was, will I get the search engine rankings back? Obviously i don't want to spend a load of money if I can't get the rankings back - or atleast close to what they formerly where. Has anyone had any experience of this before, and can provide some advise. Thanks
How long as it been? I have a site that was down for a month completely and dropped off of the first page for its term and a week after I put it back up it was back in the #1 spot on google.
Hi, The website was only changed at the weekend, so all the old pages are still indexed and showing up in google. Its a long established site (7 years), PR5, has about 7000 pages indexed in google and also gets around 200,000 uniques a month. Thanks
Yes the indexed page will still be there if it under 1 month. So you must quickly acquire the domain and put up the site as usual
I guess you should go for it. Even if site has 404 pages you can also use that traffic to 404 pages to make money.