Please Help

[urljunky]

I am new to domaining and don't exactly understand when buying and selling developed websites. If I were to buy a fully developed web site that was getting lots of traffic, how would I transfer the domain and website to me without losing its ranking with gogle? Would it keeps the same PR also or would that be lost? Not completely understanding how that works. I am wanting to sell a developed website but it seems that the site and domain would have to stay where it is or lose its indexing with G.
Can anyone help with this?

 

[N-A]

If it's transferred properly to a reliable hosting solution, no ranking will diminish and it won't be deindexed.

 

[urljunky]

If it's transferred properly to a reliable hosting solution, no ranking will diminish and it won't be deindexed.

So if they push the domain from their account to my account then copy and transfer all files even though the name server and ip address will be different it will keep same ranking. Correct?

 

[N-A]

Totally depends. You could have a bad IP and not know it. At that point, you could lose ranking for a while. An expert on that will have to chime in.

I had some IPs linked to spam on a domain and once I changed IPs, my position climbed, that is why I'm led to believe that a site hosted on a Gmail blacklisted IP address effects its rankings, nothing more to back this claim.

 

[Name Trader]

Is there a tool to find out if an IP is blacklisted by Google?

 

[iowadawg]

http://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check

http://www.blacklistalert.org/

Again, google is your friend to find answers to any questions.

 

[enlytend]

If you're using a reputable hosting company, chances of the IP being blacklisted are close to nil (though doesn't hurt to check.)

Copy files to your hosting, move the domain to your account, set nameservers to point to your hosting. Easy-peasy.

Would it keeps the same PR also or would that be lost? Not completely understanding how that works. I am wanting to sell a developed website but it seems that the site and domain would have to stay where it is or lose its indexing with G.

Toolbar PR is just a snapshot assessment of backlinks, so unless the former owner controlled all the backlinks and deletes or changes them upon sale, it will transfer.

As far as Google's concerned, its still the same site, it just moved.

 

[urljunky]

If you're using a reputable hosting company, chances of the IP being blacklisted are close to nil (though doesn't hurt to check.)

Copy files to your hosting, move the domain to your account, set nameservers to point to your hosting. Easy-peasy.



Toolbar PR is just a snapshot assessment of backlinks, so unless the former owner controlled all the backlinks and deletes or changes them upon sale, it will transfer.

As far as Google's concerned, its still the same site, it just moved.

Thank you enlytend for..... you guessed it, enlightening me on this. I was getting all different feed back like, it was going to have to be re indexed and it might never make it back to it's original ranking, google might penalize it for one reason or another so thanks for taking the time and answering my concerns.

 

[matrigaldo]

If you're worried about the host, you can always decide to use the same one of the seller.
But if you look around, you would find several decent and very reliable hosting which wouldn't hurt the website in any way.