Not all expired domains are all that they appear. Sometimes a domain name may be purposely released by the previous owner. Why would anyone do this? If for example, the domain name has been tagged by the major search engines as a “spam site”, and you buy it, then you may just have made a terrible mistake.

Once a site is tagged as a spam site, for example by Google, it will be banned from search engine results. Even though you want to turn it into an honest website, it will remain banned from Google. And there’s really not much you can do to change that.

So once you get a potential expired domain that you’d like to add to your virtual real estate portfolio, ensure that the domain name was not a spam site or banned from the popular search engines for whatever reason. Remember also that if a site is banned from Google, and you take ownership then that’s YOUR NAME behind the banned site. What’s that going to do for your reputation? Not much!