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

I bought a domain 7 months ago. The website I put on it still doesn't show in the SERPs. Since 2000 it's had different owners - used by a co. in Oz, it's then served ads, then "for sale" with a company for 4ish years. Will it have trust issues in Google?

Dave Shuts, Yorkshire, England

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• google
• seo
• domains

[TechieGeek1]

Mwahahahaha

[rkwickstrom]

Matt:

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

[rokrohan]

great info Matt!

[kleinespelvids]

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

[daveashe]

0:58

[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

[Domain4sale]

great

[barbio]

Your muahahahhaha its perfect Matt. ;)

[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.

[hireahit]

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

[sayweb]

great answer....

[babbababba2007]

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

[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? .

[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.

[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

[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.

[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."

[TechieGeek1]

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

[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?

[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