Buying de-listed domains?

[thecat]

Is it worth buying de-listed domains?

If the onsite seo stuff is perfect but a site is de-listed and it's just dodgy backlinks that have caused the problem is it worth buying? And if so what are the risks/can you do to resolve the issues?

 

[wb]

I guess it depends how valuable and important the domain is to have, else you could just purchase a the website and use it on a fresh domain with no bad history?

Never experienced it or needed to do it myself, but you can submit a request for reinstation to Google which may work if you explain that you have recently taken the website over and state how you think it got the penalty before (obviously mentioning that you won't be doing anything like the previous owner).

The risk would simply be that the domain doesn't get reinstated and you lose the value of the domain but still have the website.

 

[thecat]

Yes, could buy the website but then I'm not sure how duplicate content works in that case.