Moving domains... Don't want a penalty to follow...
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Hello!
We have two domains. Let's say one is ninja-swords.com. It's here that we sell ninja swords online. The site's been around for a few years, and our brand is Swordzilla.
Now, we also have Swordzilla.com, and this domain has always redirected to ninja-swords.com.
Turns out that despite not having a big link profile, ninja-swords.com has a serious ranking issue. There are no manual penalties, but Fruition's penalty checker seems to think it got massively messed up by Pirate 2.0.
So, we don't really know how a site could ever recover from Pirate 2.0, and because we don't see the usual signs of Panda and Penguin victims (crap, duplicate content and bad links), we've decided to try our luck with a new domain.
So, we want to use Swordzilla.com now and definitely NOT redirect ninja-swords.com. That domain is dead.
Aesthetically and structurally, the site will be the same, but we're rewriting all of the content on the website.
In light of this: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-...ove-18163.html
Is rewriting all of the text/content enough to avoid having a Google algo issue follow a site? Is there more we can be doing?
Thanks!
We have two domains. Let's say one is ninja-swords.com. It's here that we sell ninja swords online. The site's been around for a few years, and our brand is Swordzilla.
Now, we also have Swordzilla.com, and this domain has always redirected to ninja-swords.com.
Turns out that despite not having a big link profile, ninja-swords.com has a serious ranking issue. There are no manual penalties, but Fruition's penalty checker seems to think it got massively messed up by Pirate 2.0.
So, we don't really know how a site could ever recover from Pirate 2.0, and because we don't see the usual signs of Panda and Penguin victims (crap, duplicate content and bad links), we've decided to try our luck with a new domain.
So, we want to use Swordzilla.com now and definitely NOT redirect ninja-swords.com. That domain is dead.
Aesthetically and structurally, the site will be the same, but we're rewriting all of the content on the website.
In light of this: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-...ove-18163.html
Is rewriting all of the text/content enough to avoid having a Google algo issue follow a site? Is there more we can be doing?
Thanks!