Google Deindexed affiliate network. Now what?

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I have 55 domains that were amazon affiliate sites using their API. They had thousands, sometimes millions of products/pages. Have been doing it for years, making $7000-10000 a month off these sites.

Now, all of a sudden all the domains have been delisted by Google. It's my mistake for linking some, using webmaster tools, analytics, adsense, and so on but not for all of them. so it seems they were able to figure out all of them.

I will accept what has happened, but have a few questions.

Will I be able to sell these 55 domains with most of them being pretty damn good and all .com's? I'd like to just sell them in bulk and call it a day.

I have around 50 more domains that were waiting to be built out. Should I give it a shot with those under a new server, no adsense, no analytics, and just see how it goes? Or sell those domains while they are still fresh? They are all niche and keyword rich, usually only 2-3 words and .com's.

Through these years I've been building news sites with real writers, deal/coupon sites, and other things to build a more "real" network, and all those sites were untouched. phew.

I hope this is the right board for this post, if not, my apologies.
Long time webmaster/lurker, finally a member.
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  • Profile picture of the author design2host
    You already have the answer to that. Your sites were banned because of Duplicate content. Most sites that use Amazon API will pull content from the amazon site and am sure that your site did the same thing. Selling the domain in bulk would be a good thing to do if someone would buy it. Chances are they will never come out of panda, penguin or whatever animal is coming next on google's new update. The question would be who would buy it in bulk. Most experienced webmasters and marketers online would give it a good look before they buy since its bulk and most novice's will not buy bulk domains. They would go for 1 or 2 , surely not 55 of them.

    Your new domains should do well i am sure. Sorry about what happened though. I have been there and done that. Time has changed and now Google is looking for some fresh content. Am sure sooner or later most spun content will go off the shelf too. its just wait and watch. Original content will pay and thats the only way i see it... its a long journey but at the end it will pay off . Good luck
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    • Profile picture of the author SlowBurned
      Originally Posted by design2host View Post

      You already have the answer to that. Your sites were banned because of Duplicate content. Most sites that use Amazon API will pull content from the amazon site and am sure that your site did the same thing. Selling the domain in bulk would be a good thing to do if someone would buy it. Chances are they will never come out of panda, penguin or whatever animal is coming next on google's new update. The question would be who would buy it in bulk. Most experienced webmasters and marketers online would give it a good look before they buy since its bulk and most novice's will not buy bulk domains. They would go for 1 or 2 , surely not 55 of them.

      Your new domains should do well i am sure. Sorry about what happened though. I have been there and done that. Time has changed and now Google is looking for some fresh content. Am sure sooner or later most spun content will go off the shelf too. its just wait and watch. Original content will pay and thats the only way i see it... its a long journey but at the end it will pay off . Good luck
      It sucks, huh?

      Going to start building up new sites with Amazon API, and see how it goes. Won't expect much, but will take the holiday payouts and expand on my "legit" network.
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      • Profile picture of the author nik0
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        You cant sell them.

        You can redo what you did the first time, but start with a few sites first, maybe Google detects it automatically, maybe not, if not then just churn & burn with it and profit while you can.
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  • Profile picture of the author edpudol1973
    No one will buy those domains if they were banned from google. All you can do now is keep them and try other source of traffic like bing.com, facebook, youtube, twitter, and pinterest
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    • Profile picture of the author SlowBurned
      Originally Posted by edpudol1973 View Post

      No one will buy those domains if they were banned from google. All you can do now is keep them and try other source of traffic like bing.com, facebook, youtube, twitter, and pinterest
      Yeah, I was afraid of that. But the payout for Bing/Yahoo traffic just doesn't add up for these sites, for me at least.

      Some of the domains still have high PR ranking, which is weird, and no messages in my Webmaster Tools. So I'm starting to wonder what happened. If someone reported me, a competitor went report crazy, or they are building their case against me and will take time haha.

      Was hoping the domains would have some small value as burners for someone, maybe $1-3 each depending.
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO Power
    First confirm that they are all deindexed. If some of them are still in Google's index, you can still profit from them for a few weeks by redirecting them to new domains.

    Diversity is important in this game. If you had diversified your portfolio properly, this wouldn't have happened. Anyways, it's too late now. Time to move on.
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  • Profile picture of the author devenn27
    May be try with few of them by adding unique content and building them to look like a valuable affiliate site and then apply for reconsideration in Google Webmaster tools. If it works out, then do the same with other domains. You may not get the same traffic, but at least if they get back in Google index you can sell them.
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    • Profile picture of the author SlowBurned
      That's what I was thinking, but was thinking about going the Dropshipping route since some of the domains are just too good.

      How is google with dropshipping sites with products? Do you think having a real store with products I'm selling could get some domains out of the doghouse?

      Originally Posted by devenn27 View Post

      May be try with few of them by adding unique content and building them to look like a valuable affiliate site and then apply for reconsideration in Google Webmaster tools. If it works out, then do the same with other domains. You may not get the same traffic, but at least if they get back in Google index you can sell them.
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      • Profile picture of the author devenn27
        Originally Posted by SlowBurned View Post

        That's what I was thinking, but was thinking about going the Dropshipping route since some of the domains are just too good.

        How is google with dropshipping sites with products? Do you think having a real store with products I'm selling could get some domains out of the doghouse?
        Setting up a drop-shipping ecommerce site would be even better because it will increase your chances to come back in index with reconsideration request in webmaster tools, because they will think of it as a legitimate business website.

        I'd say give it a shot, either way you have nothing to lose.
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        • Profile picture of the author SlowBurned
          Sounds like a plan. Got the influx of webmaster tools messages last night for "pure spam" on everything listed.

          Time to start up them coding fingers. Joined a dropship network and going to get going.

          What's weird is one of my christmas sites that got delisted is now seeing a huge spike in direct traffic. It is still even making sales, I wonder if people bookmarked it.

          Originally Posted by devenn27 View Post

          Setting up a drop-shipping ecommerce site would be even better because it will increase your chances to come back in index with reconsideration request in webmaster tools, because they will think of it as a legitimate business website.

          I'd say give it a shot, either way you have nothing to lose.
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