So you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve bought a new domain and built a new shiny site on it but no matter what you do you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get it indexed by Google? Congratulations, most likely your domain has been banned due to something the previous owner did with it! And before you read any further, let me tell you that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m in the same boat with you – at the time I got this domain, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been banned. It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t due to what I did with it but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been banned before I acquired it.<\/p>\n
You might be wondering at this point, you didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t buy your domain off the previous owner but simply registered it with a registrar – how come it was banned before you bought it? Well, domains that were owned by somebody but then expired won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t show up as belonging to somebody else at the point when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re buying them. Most often, if it has expired a good while ago, you won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even see anything pertaining to the previous owner in the whois check and\/or history. There is also Google search and there might be cached pages if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re lucky – but if a domain doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t show up during Google search it migth mean two things – either it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s never been used – or it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been banned. Even the Wayback Machine doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help in some cases – you might see a domain saved in it but nothing showing when checking to see the saved versions.
\nHow and why do domains get banned? – It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a common practice of Google to kick the sites it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like for different reasons out of their index. However, once you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve determined that your site has been banned there are ways to get it back into the index, though it takes some skill to do it right.<\/p>\n