14 year old Domain - Some Input please SEO Gurus
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We have a 14 year old domain, it's one we registered back in the early days of online marketing, it's had a number of incarnations of sales letters, blogs and so forth on it over it's life time, however we stopped using it around 4 years ago and just put a homepage on it saying "For Sale", leaving a very basic Wordpress installation behind that.
As it's such an old site, it has a few hundred links pointing to it from the old school days of reciprocal linking, mainly with just the URL.Nothing spammy and ZERO SEO work has every been done on it bar that.
Yesterday, I removed the "for sale" page and made the blog live again, we're considering using the domain for a major project and I wanted to do some analysis on it to see if it had any penalties and was 100% fit for purpose.
I used a bunch of the obvious tools like Moz and some free stuff to look at the links and they all came out with hugely different reports on how many links it had going to it. In addition I was suprised to see a few (not many) but a few crappy sites linking to it that I certainly didn't contact back in the day to link to us.
What I need is an expert with all the paid SEO tools to expertly analyse the domain name and let me know if Google still loves it.
Back in the day before there was much competition we ranked no1 , 2 and 3, for 3 huge keywords in the weight loss space, I notice none of those rank at all now , that's not suprising though as the content was , fore the most part removed.
What I was surprised was that the domain is a two word domain, the two words aren't something anybody would typically type in to Google, I can't imagine the search competition would be high but our site doesn't rank for the two words in the domain.
Which led me to think , perhaps it had a minor penalty from these spammy links going to it.
I don't want to post the domain up here but if somebody thinks, they can help us , I would be happy to pay for your services for a full analysis.
Any general advice appreciated.
Thanks.
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