One of the sites I bought recently had previously been excluded from the google index. The owner decided he was going to sell the site rather than fix it.

In comparision to the sites revenue the purchase price was very cheap ($2.5k). I was pretty sure that I could get the site back in the google index, and last night it was again in the index.

Basically I went through the site and cleaned up anything that could of caused the ban, then I contacted Google and explained the situation to them, after a couple of emails being exchanged between them and me they agreed to pass it onto the engineering team for evaluation.

I’ve been checking google several times a day since then to see if the site was back in, and last night it was.

The site has a large number of pages indexed, and has it’s PR5 back.

Assuming that the traffic/revenue returns to pre banning days the site should pay for itself within a couple of months.

Of course it was a gamble that I could pull this off, but it was an educated gamble and it looks like it has paid off.

Needless to say I am very happy.