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Homepage banished from Google SERPS, inner pages showing up

by F1SEO
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Hello all,

Well a prospect I've been to see recently called me out because they have problems.

Their homepage, which carries their main SEO keyword suddenly vanished 4 weeks ago.

Inner pages were left ranking.

Apparently they had a business that had been backlinked by one of the big UK companies, and it was doing very well for over a year until suddenly the Google guns came out and sunk it.

So they, 301 redirected it to a new domain. After 2 weeks the homepage of the new website domain has sunk leaving inner pages only.

Am I right in thinking that Google Penguin has carried over bad link juice into the new domain via the 301?

It seems obvious but I was wondering if anyone else seen something similar?
#banished #google #homepage #pages #serps #showing
  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    There are many threads out there on forums detailing people who tried to do a 301 redirect to avoid a Penguin slap. They see a return to previous rankings for a little while and then shortly afterwards the new domain loses its rankings.

    So yeah, you are probably right.
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  • Profile picture of the author GodMode52
    Yeah after 2-3 weeks the whole penality passes on the main site again (tried personally). I heard that someone had succes using buffer sites while doing the redirect but I never tried with it. All in all I think that the best thing is simply starting over as it seems the faster solution in the end.
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    • Profile picture of the author F1SEO
      I managed to get the WMT login an hour ago.

      Guess what I found?

      ....

      ....

      Oh yes ...

      I can't believe it.

      Links from the old site, are now registered in the link backs to the new site.

      Even though they point to the old domain. They are now registered to the new domain. Google has swung all links over to the new domain. Well a 301 redirect has done it.

      So all the links it didn't like and caused probs are now pointing to the new one - thanks to the 301.

      So .. it is without doubt that redirecting a domain using .htaccess or 301 from a domain that has problem to a new one ... all the bad crap goes with it.

      Nice.

      At least I can now put together a plan for them.

      Don't anyone use 301 or .htacess to redirect a domain under problems to a new one .. the problems will move with it.
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