: How to know if a domain is blacklisted by Google? I found an available domain name which I want to buy, and I realize that it was previously owned. I searched for it like site:domain.com

@Voss4911412

Check in sandbox to see if your domain is not spam by Google.
Try to use some paid tool to check the status.

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@Sarah324

Sign up for a Google Webmaster Tools account, then add your domain to the account. In a few days you'll get to see if the domain had malware or was hacked somehow recently.

Usually, if your site has been inactive for a long period, it's completely normal to be blank in SERPS, as it rarely gets crawled.

If you feel your site needs to be indexed again, submit a sitemap for your site in your Webmaster Tools Account, Google will instantly crawl it, and will index you back again in a few days.

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@BetL925

You can try to analyze backlinks of this domain name to get some information of
links campaign done.

However, if the homepage is already in Google index, it's a good indicator. It may mean Google didn't totally move the domain name in the sandbox. And just having the homepage indexed may be not a problem.

As the backlinks profile seems to be clean, if you use the domain name for a new site, just use it correctly by respecting Google guidelines and you'll see your pages indexed.

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