So I own a domain that used to be a blog.
Published on January 8, 2019
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On one of my websites I started about 3 months ago, I was somehow able to get a really good domain name. It's only 2 words and so I was surprised to be able to get the domain name.
I recently looked up the history of my domain on waybackmachine and found out that it previously was a blog, and because of the domain name wrote about some of the same general stuff I am now! They even had a podcast. This was in 2016.
Odd that the website owner would just let the domain go. Now, of course they didn't seem to practice any good SEO strategies that we learn here at WA and didn't seem to be set up to make money (at least that I know of), but they may have been getting some traffic.
Now that I've learned this, I'm wondering if I should have any concerns about the history of my domain. I don't know, it seemed like it was a legit site and didn't seem like any blackhat strategies were being used or anything so I'm guessing I'm good to go.
What do you guys think about this? Has anyone else had this happen?
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