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Does Google remember the content that has rolled off of it?

by Electrical
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I made a small secondary website in addition to my main contractor website. I got lazy and gave up before doing any SEO for the second site, and I redirected the second site's domain to the main site. The second site is now completely gone, altho it still comes up on Google until they index it again.

One concern that I have is that I put blog posts on the second site and I think they were pretty good, lots of good content and keywords. Those blog posts were (and still are) indexed on Google. In a few days or weeks I assume Google will see the redirect and any content from the second site will roll off of Google since it no longer exists.

So my question is if I can put those blog posts on my main site and have them still be considered unique? Or if Google saves that info even tho you can't see it in results? If they save the info, I don't want it to be held against my site as duplicate content.
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  • Profile picture of the author wikiklix
    I have exactly the same question and a similar situation with many articles I posted on a site that is no longer indexed. I would be interested in peoples answers.
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  • Profile picture of the author Electrical
    Can anyone speak to this?

    My old website is now completely off of Google. Searching for any of the text from the blogs that were on it is not showing up.

    So does that mean I am clear to use those blogs on another website or will Google still remember that content and consider it copying/duplicate content?
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by Electrical View Post

      I made a small secondary website in addition to my main contractor website. I got lazy and gave up before doing any SEO for the second site, and I redirected the second site's domain to the main site. The second site is now completely gone, altho it still comes up on Google until they index it again.

      One concern that I have is that I put blog posts on the second site and I think they were pretty good, lots of good content and keywords. Those blog posts were (and still are) indexed on Google. In a few days or weeks I assume Google will see the redirect and any content from the second site will roll off of Google since it no longer exists.

      So my question is if I can put those blog posts on my main site and have them still be considered unique? Or if Google saves that info even tho you can't see it in results? If they save the info, I don't want it to be held against my site as duplicate content.
      Originally Posted by Electrical View Post

      Can anyone speak to this?

      My old website is now completely off of Google. Searching for any of the text from the blogs that were on it is not showing up.

      So does that mean I am clear to use those blogs on another website or will Google still remember that content and consider it copying/duplicate content?
      It doesn't really matter If the content is on two of your own domains & you eventually do a redirect to another domain, Google will eventually self correct the SERPs (remove old indexed pages). There's no penalty If that's what your thinking.

      Google has to find your redirects before they remove the old pages from the SERPs. In other words draw attention to the old URLs. If the old site is hooked up to WMT you can try removing the old URLs there but I'm not sure If that deletes URLs directly from the SERPs or tries to crawl the old page again (find redirect) before removing the indexed URL.
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      • Profile picture of the author Electrical
        I redirected the domain and then I removed the pages in WMT, they are now completely gone from Google Search. A "site:" or "cache:" search come up blank, as does searching for any line of text inside of quotes.

        So that makes me assume that I can use all those blog posts I made on my other website without Google seeing them as copying. But I wasn't sure if they were still saved somewhere even though they don't come up in search.

        I'm only thinking about adding the blog posts for positive SEO, so I don't want it to come back and bite me on the bum.
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  • Profile picture of the author Langeani
    I'm not completely sure about that, but you could try this one thing I JUST posted on my blog:

    use this string
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    cache:http://www.yoursite.com/yourpage.html
    If it's not there... maybe it's not on Google anymore
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