Can a purchased domain's history affect its trust in Google?

[rokrohan]

great info Matt!

[kleinespelvids]

Is there anyway to "ask" google to reconsider checking the site located on such a domain?

[daveashe]

0:58 

[Domain4sale]

great

[barbio]

Your muahahahhaha its perfect Matt. ;)

[sayweb]

great answer....

[babbababba2007]

No help at all.... The question is not answered!

[hireahit]

@babbababba2007 huh? Matt said pretty clearly that the answer is yes, a domain's history does affect it's current user.

[McSnookerman]

Hey Google, I bought a domain and it doesn't show up on serp, what should I do?

Hey trusty innocent guy, don't buy it in the first place!

Thanks, that really helps me in my current situation...not

[HomesteadExpert]

So, does this advice apply to Wordpress Blogs? The "All in One SEO" plugin places NOFOLLOW on categories, tags and archives.

Is duplicate content an issue with Wordpress blogs, should we "NOT" use NOFOLLOW on Wordpress or should we be using NOFOLLOW on tags, archives and categories? .

[hireahit]

@HomesteadExpert Using "nofollow" on these pages is just silly. A better choice would be to use "noindex" metatags on the category, tag and archive pages to help ensure that your archive pages don't get indexed and instead your actual content does.

[bigal21110]

i assume contacting google for a reconsideration claiming that u just bought the domain

[daveashe]

Black hats muhwhahahahah, got to love it :-) But what??? Who would ever buy a de-indexed domain? The point of buying a used domain is that it has some ranking / backlinks that you can build upon so that you don't have to start totally from scratch.

[MrJamesBond007]

@daveashe Hey Dave, Its quite possible that Dave didn't buy this domain from another person, but from the normal domain market. Meaning that he chose a domain name, went to a registrar to see if it was available, it was so he registered it. But only realised later that it had a checkered past. One concern I do have is that do old parked domains showing related ads have trust issues with Google. As Matt says it's good due diligence to check any domain name's history in Archive.org. Cheers, Dave

[rkwickstrom]

Matt:

Assuming that this guy already HAS this domain, are there any techniques to "clean up" its reputation?

[sunnycash7]

Lol...the part with the "now we*re Blackhats....muahahaha" was AmAzInG :-)

You probably would be a great actor in a horror movie ^^

[mhaidarhanif]

we must re-think about buying a new domain for now.

[ugerWadi]

Explained in a excellent manner.......#LOL

[CraZy675]

So what is the right thing to do in this case?

buy a trusted domain and just use the spammy domain as a redirect for humans?

[TechieGeek1]

@CraZy675 There's no reason to buy a domain with a history of spam.

[justinrussell]

@TechieGeek1 I wouldn't say there's never a reason. Say your company makes nothing but large, blue widgets. You notice that largebluewidgets(.)com is for sale or available. If you follow Matt's advice from many of these videos, you should create your site based on what's best for its users. A domain name is part of that: you want something that's simple and easy for the user to remember.

The search engine should have to adjust, not the user; there should be a way to say, "hey, we're legit now."

[Alexeixx3]

@justinrussell I think that google can "reconsider" a site, ive seen that option in google webmaster tools, i dont know whay he didnt mention it.

I think that if one sees the perfect domain, one has to get it.

[troglodyte3344]

were you being a black hat or a black moustache?

[imrankhanseo]

mahahah evil laugh black hats very nicely explained matt...

That's the reason i am fan of your video's

Regards

Imran Khan

[figurethis2]

great evil laugh Matt!

[beussery]

Great information, I seem to recall that blocking archive.org can be a bad sign if other signals point at the dark side. Just wanted to share b/c I thought this was a great tip!

[orrd]

Wow Matt, that's a really disappointing answer. It sounds like Google is just copping out of their responsibility to consider the complexity of changes in domain name ownership by putting all the responsibility on everyone else.

Just because a domain like whitehouse-dot-com, business-dot-com, or whatever used to be something bad at some point in the past, that shouldn't mean that valuable domain name should be forever banished. Good domain names are too limited of a resource.

[wearealltubes]

@orrd Idealism aside, how exactly would google - using an algo or people - go about checking each domain? (that's a rhetorical question - it's not possible).

It may well be unfair: there just isn't another option apart from making the new site owner prove that the site is now legit via gg webmaster tools.

[orrd]

@wearealltubes Reconsideration requests with webmaster tools is one way to do it. But if that was an option for purchased domains I don't know why Matt avoids suggesting it in this video (he basically just says sorry, the domain you purchased is worthless, you have to rebrand your company and start from scratch, tough luck!).

Also I think Google's blacklisting should expire after a reasonable time period if there is no more nefarious activity and the use of the domain has clearly changed.

[gthing32]

So what do you do if you have a great domain that was run into the ground by a previous owner? Surely there must be a way to get back in Google's good graces?

[TechieGeek1]

@gthing32 Maybe submit a Google reconsideration request through the Webmaster Tools?

[wearealltubes]

@gthing32 resubmit in Gg webmaster tools

[TechieGeek1]

Mwahahahaha

[bartcalixto]

Will be better if Google identify a transfer domain, or new owner (Starting with whois info and domain transfer) and if it's changed and reclaimed by NEW owner you can 'take that domain off the list'. And make the process last like 3 or 4 month. So, if you actually have someone who paid a domain and it's a good user, can get around the issue without much of a problem. Right now, google is saying: SPAMMERS, keep spaming and selling... it's worth it. I know it's not google job, but you can help.

[pjkcards]

Is it possible to gain trust back, or is that domain untrustworthy forever? Thanks

[AE117]

Haha classic BlackHat

[cubeardog]

I feel fear for the Matt-BlackHat-Monster ;)