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Originally Posted by paul  I've requested google reinclusion, to see if that would help. There was some sort of holding page / parking page on it at one stage. Would that be reason to get it banned ?
It's listed on Yahoo! and MSN/Live, I'm just worried about google. |
In the current phase of Google, it doesnt appreciate if somebody purchases an old domain just to gain age preference from search engines.
If you are purchasing an old domain just for the sake of
PR, your page rank will drop, the moment you make changes in the NAMESERVERS and HOSTING details of your VINTAGE domain.
Therefore in a nutshell it is more important to concentrate on building websites which are helpful to your visitors. Search engines are just a medium through which visitors will land on your website.
We have observed some of our new websites which scored top rankings well within 3-6 months of their launch. This clearly shows that Google is bit frustrated with the practice of buying old domains just to gain high rankings.
Although, if your old domain was well maintained like irishwebmasterforum.com or any other forum, and somebody plans to purchase this website to host blog/forum for "Internet Marketing and Promotion", there wont be much issues. It will infact help the new owner.
However, if your website domain was previously owned by a gambling website, and you are using that domain to promote your charity work, then it is more like performing a hara-kiri of your optimization efforts.
If your site is helpful to end users and well optimized, it will pick up good rankings irrespective of its age. If there isnt much issue with the brand name of your vintage domain, then I would recommend you to use a new domain.
It will result in quicker results as compared to reviving a disbanded website. Google is extremely rigid when it comes to reviving websites which he has dropped in the past.