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How To Avoid Purchasing Banned Domain Names
Author:Brian Dannelly 2010-06-27 09:10:40
Category: Domain Tips
If you are in the business of buying and selling domains, catching domains on the drop, or collecting domains you think might be valuable in the future, it is important to make sure the domains you are purchasing are not damaged goods.
Domains have been known to be banned by search engines like Google for breaking their terms of service . Domains have also been known to exist on global spam blacklists. Many domains get blacklisted for spamming search engines or spamming via mass emails.
You certainly don't want to pay top $ for a domain only to find it never gets indexed by a search engine and you are left with fishing for traffic from backlinks and paid traffic for the rest of that domain's life.
So, what do you do?
Firstly, you can use an online tool to check whether a domain is banned by Google.
For most domains that I query, it returns the message
"This domain DOES NOT appear to be banned".
This tool is not sufficient on it's own though.
For newly registered or not registered domains, the tool, thanks to the Google API, returns the following confusing message:
"The domain has no PageRank value, it is LIKELY to be banned".
"The domain has no record with Google, it is either new or may be banned".
If you do end up purchasing a domain name that has been banned by a search engine, most search engines have a reinclusion/reconsideration procedure in place. You can find the Google reconsideration request at the Google website.
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