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Old 10-15-2012, 12:35 AM  
henriduf
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Beware of previously owned and penalized domain name

Here is my story.
I bought a domain name without knowing it was previously owned in 2011. the domain was xbigock com
In webmaster tools, i did a transfer of address from old domain (hugecockfuck me) to xbigcock com. In google, logically, the entries from hugecockfuck me disappeared BUT now new records appeared in results for xbigcock. It means my website became totally hidden from earth and i lost all my traffic.
I checked in my logs and discovered googlebot was looking for pages i never had on my website. Then, in webmaster tools index status, i discovered pages were indexed in 2011
I checked the historical whois and found it was owned by somebody else before.
So, i checked several times my website to see if something was against google guidelines.
I found anything and anyways my website did not change when i did the transfer

So i decided to send an reconsideration requestion to google and google answered:

Dear site owner or webmaster of xbc,

We received a request from a site owner to reconsider xbc for compliance with Google's Webmaster Guidelines.

We've reviewed your site and we believe that some or all of your pages still violate our quality guidelines.

In order to preserve the quality of our search engine, pages from xbc may not appear or may not rank as highly in Google's search results, or may otherwise be considered to be less trustworthy than sites which follow the quality guidelines.

If you wish to be reconsidered again, please correct or remove all pages that are outside our quality guidelines. When such changes have been made, please visit and resubmit your site for reconsideration.

If you have additional questions about how to resolve this issue, please see our Webmaster Help Forum for support.

Sincerely,

Google Search Quality Team


I checked again and i found nothing. I decided to move my website back to the old domain hugecockfuck me and do a simple 301 redirect from xbigcock root without any folders and pages.

Guess what? the website is back in google results !!! and the traffic is coming back too !!
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