Penalty for using expired domain?

[EdgySEO]

I was wondering if anyone has any experience using dropped/expired domains with old "clean" backlinks for new sites.

1. Is there be a penalty for doing this (with good intent)?

2. Worth a reconsideration request?

[Dan-Petrovic]

If this is your only way of link building (especially if you do 301 only) it will start looking suspicious, your site may get penalised on manual review. I am not that sure if Google have algorithmic trigger for this.

[EdgySEO]

Thanks for your answer. What about using the expired domain as a new site. Not for linking to other sites or 301 redirect. Could there be some kind of penalty? I guess I can just test it my self

[Dan-Petrovic]

It should be fine unless that site was banned in the past for some reason, though that's pretty easy to check. If your new website changes substantially in topic Google will likely recognise the change and not factor in domain's history. This is from what Google said at one point, not sure if anything changed since then.

[KeriMorgret]

Hi! I'm following up on some older questions. Did you buy any of these older domains? Do you have any information you could share with us?