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Experience with bringing blocked (Google SERPs) websites back from the dead?

So I'm purchasing a really strong website with just one hitch- Completely de-indexed from the Google Monster.

In short, the strong cause of a mostly legit link portfolio including .govs and .edus galore, mostly because the owner was a professor and expert on a specific topic and wrote a lot about it.

Site is over 20 years old and has sat for a long time (10+ years) without updates. Meanwhile, original owners son has sold links, etc. on the site (pretty spammy stuff) to monetize. Now, selling the site completely cause traffic is down.

I've repaired manual actions in the past with success but this one is less obvious as to why it's banned. GSC isn't helping either.

Question is this- Anyone have experience in identifying the root cause of bans and has anyone seen a site which cannot be brought back from the dead?

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