Website purchased on Filppa, Goolge Panda update DE-INDEXED it!

[kwerner]

Found this on a different forum...

Some poor bastard bought this website off of Flippa for $11,250 expecting to profit $770 a month. Next thing you know, the Google Panda update comes along and completely de-indexes the site! Yikes!

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

Was the new owner complaining?

 

[domular]

The developer must have been doing some really shady link building stuff behind the scenes. I'd be mad as hell if I had bought it.

 

[Brootal]

Awesome find!

To learn from this; if the new owner bought this site and wanted to keep it ranked, what could he have done to make it valuable in googles eyes?

Could he have stayed ranked for that keyword, continued to make money from adsense, but then added some content pages about how to become a "couponer"? or other related content?

The reason I ask is because i see a lot of similar sites, but wonder what it would take to do the same exact thing, but add the kind of content that Google would allow to stay.

 

[domular]

The reason I ask is because i see a lot of similar sites, but wonder what it would take to do the same exact thing, but add the kind of content that Google would allow to stay.

I checked out the site and there is very little content there. It even looks like all the pages listed on the flippa details aren't there any more.

 

[kwerner]

Was the new owner complaining?

It was actually the SELLER that was complaining. I guess several other of his sites got hit too.


Looked to be a lot of things wrong with the site; it's really no surprise it got hit by the Panda update. I do feel sorry for the guy that purchased it though.

 

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[The Intrepid]

You think by now people would know that Google doesn't appreciate MFA websites...

 

[Davidla]

Awesome find!

To learn from this; if the new owner bought this site and wanted to keep it ranked, what could he have done to make it valuable in googles eyes?

Could he have stayed ranked for that keyword, continued to make money from adsense, but then added some content pages about how to become a "couponer"? or other related content?

The reason I ask is because i see a lot of similar sites, but wonder what it would take to do the same exact thing, but add the kind of content that Google would allow to stay.

I dont think there is much the new owner could have done in such a short period AFTER buying the website. The website got deindexed, not just a decline in ranking.

The website was probably doing something google really didn't like, so the PANDA just swalloed him whole..

 

[MJ DeMarco]

The website was probably doing something google really didn't like,

The answer shouldn't seem so mystic. MFA sites provide little or no value-- this is another casualty in the affiliate arbitrage game.

 

[semsniper]

That's brutal, poor guy

Not likely that it was directly associated with the Panda update.
Panda wasn't designed to completely de-index sites.
Something much more sinister was going on... Reeks of Black hat

 

[Jonleehacker]

Although they can be tricky to negotiate, it is possible to write warranties (or at least extended escrow periods) into website sales contracts.

 

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[callmelucid]

i saw this exact posting on flippa when doing some research. my goal is to make bigger sites with good value as opposed to the sites i have built now which are similar MFA crap sites that make decent passive income.

i'm not sure why, but my sites didn't really get effected by panda. must be my backlinking or something

 

[Brootal]

Okay, sorry to be a jackass but I'm learning...

How could have seller have built a simple site like this, but been able to keep Google happy? Is it possible to create sniper sites these days that actually provide value, but still make money with adsense?

Say this guy built the exact same site, for the exact same keyword, but added a few more pages of original content that was actually helpful (ie: advice on couponing, saving money etc..) then built out his backlinks over time. Would this be a completely different story? or are the days of small niche sites gone.

 

[semsniper]

I have a hard time believing this site was making over $700/month.

Shit, if I knew it was this easy to flip such a shitty site for nearly 12K, I'd be flipping one website a week.

 

[DeletedUser2]

Thanks guys, Im build casestudies of "waht not to buy and why" from flippa.

awesome find. Send more if you run across other idiots

 

[LightHouse]

The panda 1 & 2 updates wont deindex a site. It will just sink the rankings. Something else was going on to get it de-indexed and the seller is trying to smoke and mirrors his reputation. It's possible he was cloaking traffic to it or doing very shady stuff and someone reported it and they all got tanked. Any idea the sellers name/handle?

 

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[kwerner]

The panda 1 & 2 updates wont deindex a site. It will just sink the rankings. Something else was going on to get it de-indexed and the seller is trying to smoke and mirrors his reputation. It's possible he was cloaking traffic to it or doing very shady stuff and someone reported it and they all got tanked. Any idea the sellers name/handle?

He was on a different forum, I'll PM you the thread / seller's name.

 

[Davidla]

Thanks guys, Im build casestudies of "waht not to buy and why" from flippa.

awesome find. Send more if you run across other idiots

Great minds think a like, and so do we..

Sending you a PM.