Anyhow, looks like its the links to the 301'd domain that did the trick since blasting stuff like SGW on a fairly new site (I'll assume yours is) will not work.
This is not true. Have you tried it?
Thanks for sharing. What is SGW?
how much traffic are you seeing? and how much is the site making?
Day 1 strategy is for real. The two aged domains I bought with PR are doing amazing (I actually build the domains out though).
The one 12 year old domain I bought with no PR and no history... doing the worst of all of my new sites. It's got some sort of penalty on it. I'm thinking of 301ing it to another domain soon, and SGW at the 12yo domain. This is one more vote on that direction.
Quality + Spam + Keep Site alive with comments and new content + spam = win
By no PR do you mean PR n/a or PR 0? Was it indexed at the time you bought it?
PR N/A (and still is). The site was indexed (the little homepage domain for sale page), and info:domain.com showed up. So I bought the little fucker. It's indexed but the home page ranks 73 and not much else is going. I would expect it and a bunch of other pages to be in the 20s by now.
I dunno I'm no domainer and not a pro at this stuff, but it's a legitly quality site so I am gonna keep at it, but need to cut losses and 301 at some point.
Prolly
And I 301 d a penalized site to another and the new domain popped right up to place. 5 days later gone. So I still think penalties can also transfer through the 301. I think your luck is the same when blasting the sgw (or any spam) to money site or 301.
( of course my expirence for this is still limited. just based on my trys and reading others )