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Penguin Question with Link Strength

by adamcm
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Hi all,

I lost most of my sites in the latest Penguin changes. I am thinking of re-building my sites by no-indexing the old ones and creating similar content on new domains. The problem is that my current domains have built some decent PR. My main site was a PR4 and I hate to lose it or have it not helping out at all.

If I put my new sites on a different IP, will a PR4 Penguin affected site still pass link juice to a newer site?

Thanks!
#link #penguin #question #strength
  • Profile picture of the author retsek
    Originally Posted by adamcm View Post

    Hi all,

    I lost most of my sites in the latest Penguin changes. I am thinking of re-building my sites by no-indexing the old ones and creating similar content on new domains. The problem is that my current domains have built some decent PR. My main site was a PR4 and I hate to lose it or have it not helping out at all.

    If I put my new sites on a different IP, will a PR4 Penguin affected site still pass link juice to a newer site?

    Thanks!
    Unless you the fix the problems with the backlink profile, an affected site will pass all the bad link juice to the newer site if you do a 301 redirect. So if you're starting over with the thought of doing things right, that's not the way to go.

    Also, PR means nothing. As you can see, you have PR4 and probably still can't rank no where in the top 100. Just about all it's good for is link research and selling backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author dp40oz
    I wouldn't link through from the other site or 301. Just forget about it because in Google's eyes you've manipulated that PR 4.
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  • Profile picture of the author webdevpro
    You want to go to new domain because of you linked from most of the low quality sites, right?, then why want to pass the old link juice. Either go with the old site by building more and more relevant links or start a new one from scratch.
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  • Profile picture of the author mosthost
    That PR 4 really isn't all the useful now.
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    • Profile picture of the author adamcm
      I wasn't talking about doing a 301. I was thinking about creating a new site based on the same keywords that I had built with the PR4 site. I would then add a backlink from the PR4 site to the new site that would be on a separate IP. I just wasn't sure if "penguin" sites still passed link juice to links.
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