how long before you can reuse deleted content on another website?

Banned 9 years ago

What's wrong with doing a 301 redirect or a cross domain canonical?

Either way, the webpage with stronger SEO will rank in Google SERPs. The other page/s will get buried in Supplemental SERPs.

[ 1 ] Thanks
1 reply

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[9665012].message }}

SEOCrate 9 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

What's wrong with doing a 301 redirect or a cross domain canonical?

^This
Only reason I can think of to not canonical or redirect is due to a search algorithm penality.

and if that's the case, you're going to need to ditch the content completely to remove any association from that penalty.
- Thanks
{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[9665024].message }}

Pdomain

Banned 9 years ago

Once content is published on the web, it goes into search engine index system, and the content remains there permanently until Google thinks of removing your content, or banning your website.

Even Google removes the content from its database, there are many other sites such as archive.org that captures your content for future reference...

So it is hard to reuse the content as unique once published ......

However, I'm not sure how long content remains in Google database if the site doesn't exist anymore....

Thanks

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[9665105].message }}

IMLab

9 years ago

Originally Posted by desouza13

If I have some blog posts on a website of mine , and i Delete them and want to use them on a new website with a separate domain, how long should I wait so that it is not seen as duplicate content in the eyes of Google?

You can use them right away after deleting them from the old wesbite! Google automatically understands that the content has been missing from one domain by reading the 404 error. Make sure to update your sitemap as well in both domains for better and faster results.

However, if you are keeping both domains active, then this approach might not be the best one. If you already did some marketing in the past to those posts, then it is better to do a redirect to the new domain provided that you are keeping both of them active. If the old domain is not getting any traffic or you haven't build any quality backlinks quite yet, then you don't need to worry about that.

P.S: My answer above assumes that both domains are perfectly healthy, indexed and running without penalties. If your old domain got penalized and you just need to move to a new domain, then your redirection will not be needed as it might hurt your website.

Hope that helps!

Thanks

Signature

Our SEO Website: Labinator.com
Complete Link Building Guide For 2016: Click Here

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[9665652].message }}

prashanthk

9 years ago

I would use 301 redirects for the situation you described, as rightfully pointed out by others.

Spencer from NichePursuits deindexed his original website, and added the same content in the new site and did not see any negative impact. This might be a better idea, but we don't know how that really works

Thanks

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[9668160].message }}

GarrettMickley

9 years ago

I would also use 301 redirects but if for some reason you can't do that (for example, if you're deleting a page on a site you don't host such as Ezine or Hubpages or something), delete the content and then every day Google the first sentence in quotes.

When it stops showing up, you're safe.

I've done this many times with no issues.

Thanks
1 reply

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[9668176].message }}

desouza13

9 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

What's wrong with doing a 301 redirect or a cross domain canonical?

Either way, the webpage with stronger SEO will rank in Google SERPs. The other page/s will get buried in Supplemental SERPs.

Originally Posted by SEOCrate

^This
Only reason I can think of to not canonical or redirect is due to a search algorithm penality.

and if that's the case, you're going to need to ditch the content completely to remove any association from that penalty.

Originally Posted by Pdomain

Once content is published on the web, it goes into search engine index system, and the content remains there permanently until Google thinks of removing your content, or banning your website.

Even Google removes the content from its database, there are many other sites such as archive.org that captures your content for future reference...

So it is hard to reuse the content as unique once published ......

However, I'm not sure how long content remains in Google database if the site doesn't exist anymore....

Originally Posted by IMLab

You can use them right away after deleting them from the old wesbite! Google automatically understands that the content has been missing from one domain by reading the 404 error. Make sure to update your sitemap as well in both domains for better and faster results.

However, if you are keeping both domains active, then this approach might not be the best one. If you already did some marketing in the past to those posts, then it is better to do a redirect to the new domain provided that you are keeping both of them active. If the old domain is not getting any traffic or you haven't build any quality backlinks quite yet, then you don't need to worry about that.

P.S: My answer above assumes that both domains are perfectly healthy, indexed and running without penalties. If your old domain got penalized and you just need to move to a new domain, then your redirection will not be needed as it might hurt your website.

Hope that helps!

Originally Posted by prashanthk

I would use 301 redirects for the situation you described, as rightfully pointed out by others.

Spencer from NichePursuits deindexed his original website, and added the same content in the new site and did not see any negative impact. This might be a better idea, but we don't know how that really works

Originally Posted by GarrettMickley

I would also use 301 redirects but if for some reason you can't do that (for example, if you're deleting a page on a site you don't host such as Ezine or Hubpages or something), delete the content and then every day Google the first sentence in quotes.

When it stops showing up, you're safe.

I've done this many times with no issues.

Thanks for all the replies guys, highly appreciated.

So today what I ended up doing is going to Quick Install in Cpanel and completely deleting the old wordpress installation from there.

now when I try to go to the old domain/posts, I get a 404 error.

I thought this would be easier than a redirect, and would make more sense because the other domain/website was relatively new (although already indexed by google) and did not have any SEO value.

So am I now good to go instantly as far as re-using the content on my new domain/website? Or should I wait some time? When I copy and paste some of the content into Google, the old website still shows in the results, but when I click it I get a 404 error.

Will this cause any duplicate content issues in the eyes of Google?

Thanks

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[9723270].message }}

desouza13

9 years ago

anyone? i want to start working on the site but want to make sure first

Thanks
1 reply

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[9723964].message }}

SEO Power 9 years ago

Originally Posted by desouza13

anyone? i want to start working on the site but want to make sure first

Not so fast. Add the old domain to your Google webmaster tools account and deindex it using the URL removal tool in WMT dashboard. Within 24 hours, the old domain should be out of the index and return no results when you do a site : olddomain.com search.

Once it's out of the index, start publishing your content on the new site. I'm surprised no one mentioned this.
- Thanks
Signature
ONE HOUR INDEXING - STOP WASTING MONEY ON LINKS GOOGLE NEVER FINDS
{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[9724236].message }}

somedevil

9 years ago

Just make sure that they are not indexed on Google. It's as simple as that. TO begin with, deindex it using webmaster tools.

Thanks
1 reply

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[9724244].message }}

desouza13

9 years ago

Originally Posted by SEO Power

Not so fast. Add the old domain to your Google webmaster tools account and deindex it using the URL removal tool in WMT dashboard. Within 24 hours, the old domain should be out of the index and return no results when you do a site : olddomain.com search.

Once it's out of the index, start publishing your content on the new site. I'm surprised no one mentioned this.

Originally Posted by somedevil

Just make sure that they are not indexed on Google. It's as simple as that. TO begin with, deindex it using webmaster tools.

Thanks for the reply guys.. So in the Remove URL tool in webmaster tools, I have to enter each specific url I want to deindex right? (ex: www.mysite.com/post1) not just the main domain url (ex: www.mysite.com)

Is there a way to just deindex the entire site in one step?

Thanks again, I know these are probably noob questions lol.

Thanks

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[9724282].message }}

desouza13

9 years ago

nevermind my last post, I figured it out..

But when I remove the entire domain from the Remove URL tool in WMT, it says that for permanent removal I must edit my robots.txt file.

Is this still possible now that i deleted the website/wordpress install?

Thanks
1 reply

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[9724406].message }}

SEO Power

9 years ago

Originally Posted by desouza13

nevermind my last post, I figured it out..

But when I remove the entire domain from the Remove URL tool in WMT, it says that for permanent removal I must edit my robots.txt file.

Is this still possible now that i deleted the website/wordpress install?

That basically means that you should make the site inaccessible by Google after deindexing so that Google won't recrawl and reindex it again. Since you've deleted the site, the site is no longer accessible to Google so Google can't recrawl it. Therefore, you're good to go.

Thanks

Signature

ONE HOUR INDEXING - STOP WASTING MONEY ON LINKS GOOGLE NEVER FINDS

{{ DiscussionBoard.errors[9725438].message }}

how long before you can reuse deleted content on another website?

Trending Topics

How did you turn it all around?

Any thoughts on golf's latest phenom...Scottie Scheffler??

What's the Best IM-Related Skill to Learn Today That Can Help in the Future?

best high quality crypto traffic.

Some interesting stats about brand comms