| Sounds algorithmic and not manual. A lot of the junk in the trunk of a once-spammmy domain is hard to chase off. It's always important to complete due diligence when buying a seemingly authoritative domain. From the horse's mouth: http://www.seroundtable.com/google-old-penalties-expired-dom... Personally I think Google should figure out a way to wipe clean a domain's history when it transfers owners, but... that creates an incentive to spam the shit out of a domain and then just "transfer ownership" once it's hit with a penalty. Kind of a hard problem to solve, but an important one. I imagine someone like my dad, not knowing the first thing about the internet, wanting to set up a small site for his business. I picture him trying to buy a domain that matches his business name or something, and then never getting out of the gutter due to past damage to the domain. Not really fair to him (maybe this is a bit of an edge case, I dunno). I think you'll find a thorough re-inclusion request here will likely help but won't completely bring a recovery (but seriously, make it as thorough as possible, including disavowing every link you didn't build). Disavowing "dozens" of links is not exactly hard work - I've had people ask for help disavowing THOUSANDS of links their ex-agencies had pointed at their site. |