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301 Redirecting a Penalized Domain to New - Back to Normal??

by danb12
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Hey

Cut a long story short - this has nothing to do with yesterdays Google update, nor panda.

January this year, my 2 year old money site completely lost rankings. I don't use no link software, or buy cheap link packages. (was #4 then #400 overnight)

I got a "free quote" from an SEO company this week (had no intention in buying, just wanted a few questions answered), and they said it may have been penalized (no WMT email).

He said, the best thing i could do is to move the site to a new domain while redirecting the old to the new.
He also said that my rankings would be back to the was they was within a month or so.. building slow new links to the new domain too.

Does this really work? :confused:
Can I just buy a new domain and that's it?

I'm a bit unsure.. I would of thought Google will just auto penalize the new one..??

any advice??

thanks
#301 #back #domain #normal #penalized #redirecting
  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    The best place to ask this question is here:
    Adsense / PPC / SEO Discussion Forum

    Personally, I don't think that fellar is selling SEO but a load of crap. :p
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  • Profile picture of the author DireStraits
    I agree with Bill. And not just any old crap, either... a touch of the green apple splatters.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ashera
    What's a 301 going to change? Any bad links come with it and your site hasn't changed- you have no idea what caused the drop so all this will do is waste your time...
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    If you don't change direction, you'll end up where you're going.
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    • Profile picture of the author tpw
      Originally Posted by Ashera View Post

      What's a 301 going to change? Any bad links come with it and your site hasn't changed- you have no idea what caused the drop so all this will do is waste your time...

      ... And money ...

      301 passes all link value to the new domain.
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      Publish Coloring Books for Profit (WSOTD 7-30-2015)
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      • Profile picture of the author Ashera
        Originally Posted by tpw View Post

        ... And money ...

        301 passes all link value to the new domain.
        Exactly - and the site structure and content comes with it.
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  • Profile picture of the author coolnew
    Getting a new domain is cheap. try it and let us know the result.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Of course you can. I built a site that had almost 300 informational posts and did some very light backlinking (200 links). The site was new. I checked the indexing in Google and they indexed it pretty quickly. One week later, it was gone. Completely gone. They obviously deindexed it. I bought a new domain and installed it on the new domain and it's still standing and fully indexed.
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    • Profile picture of the author Ashera
      Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

      Of course you can. I built a site that had almost 300 informational posts and did some very light backlinking (200 links). The site was new. I checked the indexing in Google and they indexed it pretty quickly. One week later, it was gone. Completely gone. They obviously deindexed it. I bought a new domain and installed it on the new domain and it's still standing and fully indexed.
      That's a little bit different than doing a 301...
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      • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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        Originally Posted by Ashera View Post

        That's a little bit different than doing a 301...

        Yeah ... was just coming back to clarify. I would not redirect the old penalized domain to the new domain at all. I just started over with a new domain.
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        • Profile picture of the author Vicki247
          Can someone point me where's best place to for getting help in loading speed? I need help with getting my site to load quicker when opening. I'm using core conversion, which is a great asset to have, it's that I'm just trying speed the open time because the website it points to takes awhile to open. That site opens fine on it's own, it's my site that's slow. Thank you.
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  • Profile picture of the author kellymandingo
    In some not all if your are carrying a penalty you can pass that too.

    But before you do that get a site review to make sure
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