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12 years ago

I have no experience, but I think it should be okay. The backlinks caused the penalty to follow to the new domain. Getting rid of the 301 should drop all the links and the penalty.

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intergen

12 years ago

I tend to believe mosthost is correct. It all depends if they have somehow penalized your site beyond just the 301 you could be in trouble.

Easy enough to check just remove the 301 and see what happens.

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boxoun

12 years ago

Not much talk on it but there were a few threads on how 301s caused some sites to plummet. Not sure if it has to do with penalty or something different in regards to 301s being used to manipulate page rank.

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MatthewWoodward

12 years ago

I have had mixed responses with 301's

I have some that have worked fine and helped to recover a site and I have others which do as you described here.

It really is hit and miss.

If you remove the 301 that should remove the penalty in time on the assumption you haven't picked up a seperate penalty for the new domain with any link building you've been doing.

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Mantasmo

12 years ago

Originally Posted by MatthewWoodward

If you remove the 301 that should remove the penalty in time on the assumption you haven't picked up a seperate penalty for the new domain with any link building you've been doing.

This is correct. I have removed many redirects (Penguined -> 301'd -> removed) and while most sites (domain B in your example) did recover over time, some are still penalized and don't seem to be getting anywhere.

Good luck!

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- Mantasmo 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by MikeWike
  
  What was the average recovering time? Just curious..
  
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  About 8 to 10 days.
  
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MatthewWoodward

12 years ago

Originally Posted by bnetwork

This is correct. I have removed many redirects (Penguined -> 301'd -> removed) and while most sites (domain B in your example) did recover over time, some are still penalized and don't seem to be getting anywhere.

Good luck!

Yes this is exactly why it should be used as a last resort.

I have seen recoverys with 301s in around a week as well. There is also a couple of case studys around this over at **********

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funlol

12 years ago

I removed the 301 redirect to my newly penalized site about 4 weeks ago... the penalty still hasnt been removed. Seems to have been transferred over permanently unfortunately =(

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ArcherWylde

12 years ago

Originally Posted by The Oilman

Hello

Imagine I have a penguin site,

Domain A.

And a fresh domain, Domain B.

A few months ago, I did a 301 where I move the site to Domain B and then redirected A to B.

But then I see the Domain B now has penalty too.

If I detach Domain A, the original penalized domain, will Domain B be ok? Or do you think that G will permanently hate it?

Sort of a far fetched question but just wondering if anyone has experience. I assume it will be ok...

I dont think this is far fetched at all.

If you can effectively transfer some of PageRank from a domain using a 301 redirect, it only makes sense that you could also transfer a penalty as well.

I would remove the 301 Redirect and then submit your site for re-consideration, that is as long as there are no other factors that could cause your new domain and site to have a penalty.