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How to transfer content without Google duplicate penalty?...

by galmiar
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Hi all,

Like many i have had a lot of bad luck with the Google updates lately, The most recent was the emd update where all my sites were totally bumped off radar.

Anyway i have been thinking of ways to recover and while doing a 301 redirect was attractive i don't think i want to risk transferring any penalty over to the new site.

I do however want to desperately transfer my content.

QUESTION: How can i do this please with out using a 301 redirect (where i could risk the penalties transferring over) and without Google thinking it duplicate content...?

Do i have to get the old sites deindexed and then publish the content on the new site?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
#content #duplicate #google #penalty #transfer
  • Profile picture of the author edpudol1973
    My suggestion is request for de-index first then after the site is totally de-index shutdown the site and use the old content to new site
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      The google algo hit EMDs that were crappy. If that really
      was the reason your site got hit, then why move crappy
      content?

      Logic would dictate that one would not use the same content.

      Google is the judge of crappy content. In your mind they
      judged your content to be crappy.

      If your sites were not deindexed, then work with them.

      However, if your EMD paints you into a corner, then you
      are stuck with that corner. Start a completely different
      site, new domain, link the old site to the new site.

      What you propose is just the same old mindset that google
      wishes to squash. "Gee, my emd got hit so, I know! I'll just
      move the content to a new domain! That'll show 'em!"

      No. That's not what they want or need and it just makes them
      more militant.

      But I know. Sprucing up a site with hard work just does not
      have the same ring to it. And the beat goes on.

      Next algo, coming up!

      Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author edpudol1973
    Good point there paul...

    But what if the emd sites affected have high quality content, but google penalized them?

    I have seen some sites which have great value content before that was hit by the EMD update.

    Isn't worth to close the old sites which was penalized by google that was maybe because the owner over optimized it before, and start a new site using the content he created that have high value to his readers and correct the mistakes have made before to avoid another penalty in the future?
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  • Profile picture of the author galmiar
    Hi, thank you both for your advice.

    That is a good point Paulgl about the transferring of low quality content. However i really don't see how the content on my sites were low quality. I personally wrote them. They were completely unique, relevant, genuinely helpful to readers, spelling and punctuation checked and now less then 500 words each article, often a lot longer. One site was updated daily and others every 3-4 days.

    I believe there are quite a few reasons why emds where hit, many of mine were only a few months old and the ones that were 1-2 years where hit previously by penguin (not panda) so they were already in Google's black books, despite attempts to salvage them But while they were being updated often and had around 20-70 posts on them, they weren't gigantic sites with hundreds of articles.

    A noticed a lot of the emds went down and one that i noticed survived was aged and had over a thousand indexed posts, tags etc. Of course there does seem to be some injustice with the emd update and i've read many people admitting that some of there low quality emd sites prospered, but then some spammy sites escaped penguin so some do escape Google's wrath anyway.

    I wasn't just planning on transferring each emd site to a new individual domain, but as they were all part of the same niche i was planning on making one big 'brand' domain, so the new site would have a lot more quality content on it then any of the other emd domains, so hopefully this will help it.

    Thank you for your comments, if you have any more suggestions, please let me know, the more the merrier
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