How to check if website was optimized with black hat methods?

cryuff

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Hi,

I've got a chance to buy this website washingmachinemart. for $800, there is also a flippa listing for it.

I like to check in any way if it's worth the money.

Do you know how to do this kind of technical analysis?
 
use Ahrefs and Wayback Machine to check its stats and content / backlinks history.

Design-wise - I mean, if it's washingmachinemart.in we are talking about - it's not worth the $800, but the design is only a small part of the analyzing process.

The good news is that it's indexed in google, so it most likely isn't penalized. But I'm not gonna check it in Ahrefs and WBM for you, you'll have to do this yourself :)
 
Don't buy websites until you know what you are buying. @tazarbm will help you with parts of the process but there is still a lot you should look out for. The only way in which you should spend the $800 if either if you really know what you are buying, or if you can lose the money.
 
Check backlinks history
 
well, the content page looks ok and standard.
but the homepage link is dead and you need to put some work re-design the homepage.
its nearly 30 posts, so if you buy for content, it's 800/30=$25 per post.

if you like the site, you can buy it. 800 is not worth but it is not over-price too much.

anyway if you decide to buy the site, you definitely to do a lot of work tweaking it.
if you think 800 is buy and make money, not worth.
 
A sudden spike in traffic
Check historic traffic estimate
 
You can check by using the following tools.
  • Google search console
  • Moz SEO tool
  • Ahrefs
Hope this helpful.
 
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