InsanelySane
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- Nov 23, 2013
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I was mining for some domains today and found decent one, so I bought it somewhat more hastily than I normally would because I was in a rush.
The site was in the medical industry; all links and anchors are clean and from .edu, hospitals and research departments.
Archive shows the same site throughout 2002-2011
In 2012 it went up for auction.
Heres where I fucked up:
In 2013-2014 on archive.org only one screen each year is shown, and its a 408 Request Timeout: "The server closed the network connection because the browser didn't finish the request within the specified time".
For some reason I assumed that meant it never sold at auction and wasnt an active site during that time (fuck you archive.org), but it was. After I bought it I noticed some pages of the site are still indexed in google with PR. They will show in the SERPs without "site
site)(page-title)" needing to be used. The homepage however, is not indexed.
One of the category pages still indexed in SERPs shows a title of "Home Renovating and Decorating | (old site title)"
So clearly someone bought it at auction, set it up as a "home renovation" site and then dropped it for some reason.
The fact that a PR3 medical site was picked up, rebranded, dropped, and the homepage isn't index worries me and seems obvious why.
However, like I said its looks like no new links or anchors have been built from when it was originally a medical site. So unless the guy had a big sign saying "PBN!" I dont see how it could have gotten a penalty.
Does this look like its clearly fucked and I have wasted 12$ and should let it die or is it worth looking into more?
The site was in the medical industry; all links and anchors are clean and from .edu, hospitals and research departments.
Archive shows the same site throughout 2002-2011
In 2012 it went up for auction.
Heres where I fucked up:
In 2013-2014 on archive.org only one screen each year is shown, and its a 408 Request Timeout: "The server closed the network connection because the browser didn't finish the request within the specified time".
For some reason I assumed that meant it never sold at auction and wasnt an active site during that time (fuck you archive.org), but it was. After I bought it I noticed some pages of the site are still indexed in google with PR. They will show in the SERPs without "site
One of the category pages still indexed in SERPs shows a title of "Home Renovating and Decorating | (old site title)"
So clearly someone bought it at auction, set it up as a "home renovation" site and then dropped it for some reason.
The fact that a PR3 medical site was picked up, rebranded, dropped, and the homepage isn't index worries me and seems obvious why.
However, like I said its looks like no new links or anchors have been built from when it was originally a medical site. So unless the guy had a big sign saying "PBN!" I dont see how it could have gotten a penalty.
Does this look like its clearly fucked and I have wasted 12$ and should let it die or is it worth looking into more?
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