Disavow or Create New Website?

by edyang
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Hi,

For a website that got hit with the Penguin penalties, is there any worth in considering abandoning the website and creating a new URL?

Or does Google "know" that the new site is affiliated with the old site, even if the URL is slightly different but the content on the page is exactly the same?

Or, from your experience, should I just go through the work of disavowing links?

Thanks,

EY
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  • Profile picture of the author sweezeter
    You will never be able to recover from a Penguin penalty from disavowing links. This is the biggest myth there is and has cost companies tens of thousands of dollars in wasted revenue "waiting" for results.

    You can recover from Penguin but the only way to do so is via link removal. Starting over is obviously an option but typically overkill for most real businesses. If you have a site that was ranking well that no longer ranks well it is entirely recoverable.

    However it starts with proper link analysis and removals. Not by submitting disavows. If recovering from penalties and algorithm issues was as easy as that the disavow tool could easily be abused by expert SEO's that know how to sculpt their profiles properly. Which is exactly why it doesn't work.
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    • Profile picture of the author Enuke
      Agree with @sweezeter but I have seen many different cases. I analysed my back links and requested Google not to consider those links with Disavow tool. I got success with this idea. In other hand, my friend tried to do the same and waited for recovery of his website, but failed. He waited for long; at last he got designed a new website.

      In my view, this case is not the same for all webmasters. I also want to gather some real results from the users. Hence; Firstly, I would suggest you to put manual effort with the whole back links, try to contact webmasters and get the links removed; then go for Disavow and Wait. This is the only option to recover the penalty of penguin OR "DESIGN a NEW WEBSITE."
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  • Profile picture of the author jackluter
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    Disvow the links using web master tools you can make changes from it otherwise change with new domain and maintain the same data transfer as previous od one.
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  • Profile picture of the author cchandran
    If you go for new site with old content then it will be marked as copied content. Redirection will also creates the same problem. Better try to disavow the bad links using webmaster tools. Then work to get the website for good ranking in SERP with quality links.
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    • Profile picture of the author scottmacair
      Unless the site receives a lot of brand traffic then i'd built a new site. Using the old content should be fine as google/penguin doesn't have a problem with the content, just the links pointing to the content.
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