: Will history of a domain affect rankings for new site? Bought the domain and initially parked the domain. Google did not rank the domain because it was parked, it has however began to index

@Barnes591

No. Parked domains are common and Google knows this and accounts for it in the algorithm. Once the domain is un-parked and real content published, you are treated as any new site would be.

The only time this may matter (and indirectly at that) is if you obtain a domain that was previously active and park that for a while. Depending on how long it was parked and how it was indexed prior to your re-development of the domain you might see some residual effects from the original content in the new rankings. If it remains parked for long enough Google should eventually de-index the original content and treat the new content as a blank slate. But I confess that I have never really tested this personally so I am unsure what the exact time period would be.

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