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Moved a Site to New Domain - Paranoid about Panda - Please Help

by momo3
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Hey there

I was wondering if someone could kindly help me.

I have a site that got hit by many Penguin updates, but still gets a lot of affiliate traffic. (Site A)

I decided to rank another site, site B, with the plans of doing a switcheroo.

Once Site B ranked, I would then copy content from site A over to site B. I would then remove site A as soon as possible.(I not redirect anything because I know firsthand that redirects pass penalties).

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I have almost done all of the above, but it is taking me days to remove all the content. It is a very large site.

Also, if G has Site A's content cached, and they then view site B and see the same info, will site B get hit?

I am losing sleep and am going crazy over this.
#domain #moved #panda #paranoid #site
  • Profile picture of the author Make Money Ninja
    Ideally you will want to get all the content off site A first. Download the content then deindex the site.

    Then once the site is deindexed, put the content up on site b.

    If its a bit site this is a lot of effort. It could potentially be automated if its wordpress but thats a technical issue i am not 100% familiar about.

    Regarding link juice from the site, i would 301 all the juice to the homepage. Put up a single post and use it to link to site B. Why not give yourself a bit of juice from it ya know?
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    • Profile picture of the author momo3
      Re the Juice: Yeah I was going to do that. I was going to do a We Have Moved link from A to B.

      What about telling them in WMT that I've moved? Is that dangerous if A had a penalty?
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  • Profile picture of the author Make Money Ninja
    Dont 301 a) to the new domain. 301 pages on a) to the root and get the content deindexed from a).

    Whether or not a link from site a) to b) is bad is unknown. I am not sure anyone has any evidence that getting a link from a penalized site does not pass juice or could increase the liklihood of getting penalized. As far as i am aware, no one knows the answer to that.

    Personally i would not tell webmaster tools you have moved the site. Just set up a new webmaster tools for site b imo.

    The only other option would be to keep site a) up and do a disavow if it has a penguin penalty. That could potentially get rid of it, although nothing is guaranteed and you may have to wait a while.
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    • Profile picture of the author RobinInTexas
      Originally Posted by Make Money Ninja View Post

      Personally i would not tell webmaster tools you have moved the site. Just set up a new webmaster tools for site b imo.

      I would go so far as to use a different Google account for webmaster tools and analytics.
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      • Profile picture of the author Make Money Ninja
        Originally Posted by RobinInTexas View Post

        I would go so far as to use a different Google account for webmaster tools and analytics.
        Agreed :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author momo3
    Yes I know not to 301 A to B.

    I know what you meant when you said to 301 As pages to its home page.

    As far as A's penalty - I dont care any more. I am done with site A.

    I just fear A and B having the same content temporarily could hurt B.

    Thoughts?
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  • Profile picture of the author momo3
    Also Make Money Ninja, I am pretty positive links from hit sites pass juice as I have seen it first hand in my work..
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    • Profile picture of the author Make Money Ninja
      Originally Posted by momo3 View Post

      Also Make Money Ninja, I am pretty positive links from hit sites pass juice as I have seen it first hand in my work..
      Does not surprise me. Its hard to tell for sure though because of so many outside factors at play. I would guess the same though. Even if it increases the "riskyness" if you keep site B clean it should be good
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