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[ec-plus]

Hi,

We have recently taken on a client who has a website that has spam issues (invisible text being the biggest spam problem) created by a previous SEO company.

This is the story they have a domain name www.companyname.co.uk which is the primary domain name.

They also have .com, .net, and two other domain names that point to the www.companyname.co.uk

Understandably the .co.uk domain name has been banned from a wide range of search engines.

My questions are:

If we carry out the SEO work on the site (and we DO NOT use spam techniques of any sort) would the search engines index the domain name or any of the pages?

How long do search engines ban or penalize websites?

If the primary domain name www.companyname.co.uk has been penalized, would this automatically penalize the other pointing domain names?

Cheers,

[Jill]

Welcome, ec-plus!

It all depends on how egregious the spamming was on the first domain. What makes you think it's penalized or banned? It's very rare for that to happen to a site. What sort of spam was done?

Unless the site is on the really, really bad spammers blacklist, it should be able to come back once you create a whole new site. However, you may simply want to use a different domain, just in case.

But again, be sure that you are really penalized, not just thinking you are. There are often technical reasons that make people think they're penalized when they're not.

Jill