Double 301 Redirect - Does It Work To Avoid Penalties Being Transferred

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So as some know I had some Amazon sites that were ranking quite well penalized by Penguin 3.0

I removed some links, I adjusted some of the network, and now it's either waiting for Penguin to refresh or take some additional action. Christmas is next door so I don't like to wait.

Then I read about someone doing a double 301 redirect so that's what I did, for each tanked site I bought 2 new domains.

Old domain ----301 redirect----> Buffer domain ----301 redirect----> New domain

I migrated the site to the new domain of course

Personally I think that by the time Penguin refreshes the penalty will be lifted anyway cause of the clean up so I will start building new links to the new domain as well cause as I said I did some link removal so less juice right now so can't expect the same rankings of course.

Then there is some theory that a redirect only passes 85 percent of juice so with 2 of such redirects that would be down to about 70 percent of juice.

Anyway would be nice to bank some dollars during christmas and spending $20 on domains isn't the end of the world really so even if it only holds temporarily it would still be worth it.

If you're in a similar situation I suggest you to do the same, $20 is not much really, assuming your site made at least decent money before Penguin 3.0 of course.

Few hints

1) When you move your WP site to a new host make sure to rename the domain name in your SQL file, otherwise you end up with a messy site (same like I had)

2) Don't use the redirect option from your registrar, thing is that each registrar treats it in a different way, you want each of your old pages redirect to the same pages on the new domain. For example with Namecheap they redirect everything to the homepage (same like what happened with me). So instead use your .htaccess file with this code:

Code:
Redirect 301 / http://mynewdomain.com/
And save that in your .htaccess file, only edit these file either at your host or in Notepad++, in case you end up with some weird saving option that saves it as htaccess instead of .htaccess (notice the dot missing), once again same like I had (I don't move sites to new domains that often so learn from my mistakes) then make sure to rename it in your cpanel file manager or it won't be recognized: .htaccess (is the correct name).
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  • Profile picture of the author WorldImpulse
    I doubt that google will fall for this trick, but will surely wait to see how it works for you.
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by WorldImpulse View Post

      I doubt that google will fall for this trick, but will surely wait to see how it works for you.
      There's something to say about it as the links are cleaned up so there is no bad link juice that gets redirected, maybe that helps? Maybe not as it seems Google just puts a stamp on a site either penalized or not penalized, otherwise those refreshes aren't needed.
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  • Profile picture of the author Paz
    I'm not sure that a double redirect alone would prevent the penalty being transferred (I've never tried it though!)

    The reason why I am sceptical is that although you can dampen link weight with redirects, you might not be able to dampen an "inorganic/unnatural links" signal. That might well get passed on with the redirects at 100%... we don't know.

    Give it a try and get back to us
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  • Profile picture of the author shailender
    I never heard of this kind of trick before, but certainly love to hear your outcome. Let's hope this technique work for you and your business make money during this Christmas.
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    • Profile picture of the author Hemanth Malli
      Hi,

      Nice trick but i dont think that Google wont see it. thought i even not tried once and even i wanna try it.
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      • Profile picture of the author nik0
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        Originally Posted by Hemanth Malli View Post

        Hi,

        Nice trick but i dont think that Google wont see it. thought i even not tried once and even i wanna try it.
        I'm trying it on 6 sites at the same time right now so that should reveal whether it works or not. After that it's about how long it will work.
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      • Originally Posted by Hemanth Malli View Post

        Hi,

        Nice trick but i dont think that Google wont see it. thought i even not tried once and even i wanna try it.
        Google is a team of pure professionals i think they know about this and just wait for someone to bite
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  • Profile picture of the author elcidofaguy
    Why not add another test for comparison... Do the double redirect through two (or more) of its own sub domains as that costs nothing... Maybe consider pushing it through sub domains of other penalized sites too... I don't think it will work as there is a churn and burn method which is kind of based on this too... but such tests are always interesting ...
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by elcidofaguy View Post

      Why not add another test for comparison... Do the double redirect through two (or more) of its own sub domains as that costs nothing... Maybe consider pushing it through sub domains of other penalized sites too... I don't think it will work as there is a churn and burn method which is kind of based on this too... but such tests are always interesting ...
      Sorry but I don't mind spending a few bucks to recover a site and I wouldn't recommend using sub domains, possibly that leads to other issue's like duplicate content.

      The only thing that matters for me is how long this will last and if it works at all. The person who previously tried it claims that his site rankings maintained for almost a year and still strong.

      It's already a dubious setup so let's not make it worse then it already is.

      I already got results for one of the sites and 1 of the 4 main keywords that I track though.

      The old site still ranks at #52 for that keyword
      The new site popped up at #4 for that keyword

      Before 17 Oct when the site still ranked that keyword showed up at #4 as well so that one is recovered for the full one hundred percent.

      All the other sites and all the other keywords haven't recovered yet but it's such a short notice (only 36 hours) or something that I didn't expect any results yet so this is a very promising start.

      The old domain has 25 pages indexed
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  • Profile picture of the author elcidofaguy
    Sure... results look promising so far... interesting why there is two degrees of separation between penalized site to new money site.... This does indeed reveal potential cracks in G's current algo..

    I mention that with tiered link building in mind whereby the lower tiers with at least two degrees of separation from money site can have all of the spam crap thrown at it... and yet it seems some juice does work its way up.. I did however find tiered link building time consuming so don't bother with it these days - but think I may gave it ago with some experiments in mind....
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by elcidofaguy View Post

      Sure... results look promising so far... interesting why there is two degrees of separation between penalized site to new money site.... This does indeed reveal potential cracks in G's current algo..

      I mention that with tiered link building in mind whereby the lower tiers with at least two degrees of separation from money site can have all of the spam crap thrown at it... and yet it seems some juice does work its way up.. I did however find tiered link building time consuming so don't bother with it these days - but think I may gave it ago with some experiments in mind....
      Good point.

      As a matter of fact I have this SEO site of mine that has links from about 10-15 Amazon sites that tanked during Penguin 3.0

      The rankings kept on climbing since 17 Oct.

      These footer links from my Amazon sites are all the links the site ever received, nothing else that could be responsible for it.

      That kind of shows that links from penalized sites work just as well, though we'll have to wait till the next Penguin refresh to be sure as otherwise it could just be a border case as at the time these links were placed the Amazon sites were still ranking fine.

      Those links were directly placed from these domains to the SEO site btw, no buffers in between. The Amazon sites only received PBN links btw.
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      • Profile picture of the author nik0
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        Interesting thing I noticed:

        Turns out your anchor profile seems to matter quite a lot.

        You can't just spam your way to the top or have people neg SEO'ing your site, do a permanent 301 redirect and rank like you always did it seems.

        This is the case in one of my sites that recovered from page 15 to page 5, it used to rank in the top 3 before these neg SEO attacks and on the 16th of October it ranked between #11 and #14 and has been dropping ever since really.

        This kind of shows that not everything is dealt with by Penguin 3.0 but that a large apart of your link building is dealt with by the non stop running algorithm

        Details about the neg SEO campaign:

        - Anchor percentage for main keyword went from 5 to 55 percent
        - Amount of anchors went from 15 to 52
        - Only money keywords have been used as anchor (no porn/viagra whatever)
        - Total link count went from 80 to 1385
        - 30 percent of the links are nofollow
        - Most of the links seem to be blog comments

        Impossible to get these links removed and interesting that a double redirect doesn't rid us of this penalty. All that seems left at this point is disavowing the links, so I will give that a try.

        Another site recovered as well btw but that one is now stuck at page 3 (it tanked to page 10-12 during Penguin 3.0) and before that it used to rank at the top of page one / bottom page two.

        Maybe I just have to wait to see what happens so what I'll do is wait for one week and then follow up with some new links to the new domain to see if it matters.
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        • Profile picture of the author SEOCrate
          Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

          Another site recovered as well btw but that one is now stuck at page 3 (it tanked to page 10-12 during Penguin 3.0) and before that it used to rank at the top of page one / bottom page two.

          Maybe I just have to wait to see what happens so what I'll do is wait for one week and then follow up with some new links to the new domain to see if it matters.
          How competitive is the keyword for the site on page 3 now?

          If this site recovered in your opinion already, then it sounds like it just needs some more links built.

          On a side note, don't EVER make waiting a part of your SEO strategy.
          Instead of "waiting" to see what happens and reacting, keep building links and make sure that site pops back on those top 10 results.
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          • Profile picture of the author nik0
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            Originally Posted by SEOCrate View Post

            How competitive is the keyword for the site on page 3 now?

            If this site recovered in your opinion already, then it sounds like it just needs some more links built.

            On a side note, don't EVER make waiting a part of your SEO strategy.
            Instead of "waiting" to see what happens and reacting, keep building links and make sure that site pops back on those top 10 results.
            Well it used to rank at bottom page one on the 16th of October so I wonder why. It's not like the competition heavily increased in those last 3 weeks.

            As for competition, most of the pages ranking on page one have an average page authority of 40-45 so that's medium competitive I guess.
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  • Profile picture of the author NeedMoney2Help
    Any update?

    I saw 0 improvements for a site I am testing this method on. Some use bit.ly or similar 301-redirect type of shorteners as a second domain buffer. However I just can't understand how they utilise wild-card redirection using bit.ly

    Maybe I should redirect to one domain, wait for it to be indexed and then move to the third. I am doing all at once, is this OK?
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by NeedMoney2Help View Post

      Any update?

      I saw 0 improvements for a site I am testing this method on. Some use bit.ly or similar 301-redirect type of shorteners as a second domain buffer. However I just can't understand how they utilise wild-card redirection using bit.ly

      Maybe I should redirect to one domain, wait for it to be indexed and then move to the third. I am doing all at once, is this OK?
      6 out of 7 sites recovered.

      3 of them fully recovered

      the other 3 rank a bit worse, maybe this climbs up over the next days

      1 site still doesn't show any signs of ranking.

      I did all at once and messed up during the process as I used the redirect at registrant level which caused all the pages to redirect to the new homepage. This has been fixed by adding the domains to hosting and using the .htaccess file instead.

      A few days after the redirects were in place I added the domains to Google webmasters, this was also a bit tricky as I wasn't able to let Google verify the domains as they redirected so I placed the verification file in the folder of the new site/domain and that worked. Then I used the URL removal tool to deindex the old sites and they disappeared the same day.

      One site recovered, then dropped again, then recovered again, that was also the first one that recovered, I guess the dropping was caused by moving the redirects, unfortunately the rankings came out lower now, dropped from #3 #3 #4 #4 to #8 #7 #9 #8 but maybe that corrects itself as well over the coming days.

      No need to wait for one of the domains to index, afterall the old site is deindexed now so what's indexing good for as it still passes on the juice, indexed or not.

      Not sure how that works with domains that are deindexed by Google cause they see it as a PBN site though, maybe these also just keep the strength when used as 301 redirect cause the links are still there, who shall say. That would be kind of funny. Worse that could happen is that your money site would get deindexed by doing that
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  • Profile picture of the author NeedMoney2Help
    Did you use WMT to tell Google you've moved site A to site B or just used cPanel 301 redirect? I've done just 301 redirect without entering the new domain in WMT because I am scared it will pass the penalty that way more easily. What do you think?
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by NeedMoney2Help View Post

      Did you use WMT to tell Google you've moved site A to site B or just used cPanel 301 redirect? I've done just 301 redirect without entering the new domain in WMT because I am scared it will pass the penalty that way more easily. What do you think?
      Well, because I use a double redirect I decided to only let WMT know about 1 of the 6 sites I did this one initally.

      So this whole double trick might not work or you also might have to do it in a double fashion.

      Anyway, it's not even needed to let Google know so I would just stay away from it. Only make sure to deindex the site immidiately

      I share your fear!
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      • Profile picture of the author pixelcreative
        Hello,

        302 Redirect helps you pass penguin. Just copy to new url and use htaccess.

        You can make new juice to directed domain.


        For your idea double direct..Can you share printscreen about stats before & after redirection.

        Thanks

        Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

        Well, because I use a double redirect I decided to only let WMT know about 1 of the 6 sites I did this one initally.

        So this whole double trick might not work or you also might have to do it in a double fashion.

        Anyway, it's not even needed to let Google know so I would just stay away from it. Only make sure to deindex the site immidiately

        I share your fear!
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        • Profile picture of the author nik0
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          Originally Posted by pixelcreative View Post

          Hello,

          302 Redirect helps you pass penguin. Just copy to new url and use htaccess.

          You can make new juice to directed domain.


          For your idea double direct..Can you share printscreen about stats before & after redirection.
          302 redirects also pass on penalties nowadays.

          Here a screenshot of 2 sites, first one seems to have dealt with some Panda issue as the traffic is higher now, 2nd one recovered real well but I messed up with redirect, after correction it still ranks better post Penguin but not as good as intially.


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  • Profile picture of the author elcidofaguy
    Nice results! Indeed that's what I thought about 302 redirect at domain level re penalty passing through as I've seen this with churn and burn methods which have a similar setup...

    However I can't help thinking that perhaps redirect at htaccess for some of the pages (redirected twice) - but for others to be left alone will work better - as that might send out signals to G's algo to take it easy wrt how it scores the weightings for -ve / +ve attributes... and its overall effect... Its also likely to confuse the algo versus the very obvious redirect at domain level...

    So with that in mind I would be tempted to create additional pages on the penalized site and redirect the ones which have the ranking juice... Saying that this approach will mean less link juice flowing out... but it may score better overall with G's algo... That said its only a hypothesis which you may want to investigate further.....
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    • Profile picture of the author DaleRodge
      Interseting elcidofaguy, so you mean rather than redirect every page from the old site to the new one you'd just redirect a handful of your most important ones over?

      Could potentially work quite well that, but nik0's results seem good nevertheless. I got *really* badly hit by Penguin & Christmas is my biggest month so I'm going to try the same method right now - I'll also follow up with results.

      Here's a quick image just to highlight the severity of my hit and to show you where I am at the mo - about to implement the double 301 in the next 30 mins.



      (my image stretched the forum so I had to crop it shorter, but you get the idea)
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      • Profile picture of the author Paul Tovey
        I look forward to seeing your results Dale, I have a similar story with my website, but due to be brutally being link spammed.
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        • Profile picture of the author DaleRodge
          Mines going to be ever so slightly different - I was hit on the HTTPS version of my website, so I'm going to redirect HTTPS to non-HTTPS then new domain.

          See what happens.
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          • Profile picture of the author DaleRodge
            I've set my 301 buffer up now & removed doamin from Google's index via WMT.

            Did you submit the new domain to indexing or just leave it happen naturally?
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            • Profile picture of the author nik0
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              Originally Posted by DaleRodge View Post

              I've set my 301 buffer up now & removed doamin from Google's index via WMT.

              Did you submit the new domain to indexing or just leave it happen naturally?
              Just leave it happen.
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              • Profile picture of the author nik0
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                While another site finally pops up on the first page the other 3 are losing all rankings, not 50-100 spots like before but out of the top 500. Seems I pissed Google off big time or maybe it's just a temp thing.
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by elcidofaguy View Post

      Nice results! Indeed that's what I thought about 302 redirect at domain level re penalty passing through as I've seen this with churn and burn methods which have a similar setup...

      However I can't help thinking that perhaps redirect at htaccess for some of the pages (redirected twice) - but for others to be left alone will work better - as that might send out signals to G's algo to take it easy wrt how it scores the weightings for -ve / +ve attributes... and its overall effect... Its also likely to confuse the algo versus the very obvious redirect at domain level...

      So with that in mind I would be tempted to create additional pages on the penalized site and redirect the ones which have the ranking juice... Saying that this approach will mean less link juice flowing out... but it may score better overall with G's algo... That said its only a hypothesis which you may want to investigate further.....
      All the links point at the homepage now, yeah kind of crappy set up right from the start but well.

      I saw someone else recover a huge site by redirecting every single page except for the homepage. It seemed like the homepage was a huge image, eg screenshot of his site that linked to the new homepage. I suppose the homepage was penalized and one link from a penalized site doesn't hurt.

      Pretty smart but for me kinda useless as all my links point at the homepage so I could never expect the same rankings with 1 single link.

      In case the sites tank in a few weeks I'll update this thread, tomorrow I'm going to redirect another batch of sites (again all links to homepage) and I will use a web2.0 sub domain as buffer this time.
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  • Profile picture of the author DaleRodge
    Yeah that was my thoughts too, otherwise your probably touching upon dupe content if you have them both indexed at the same time.

    Recently I redirected the HTTPS to the non-HTTPS alone and my ranks started coming back a bit for some KWs, but hopefully this buffer now does the job once and for all across all the KWs. I'll report back with mine too & might have to get you a beer if it works
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  • Profile picture of the author NeedMoney2Help
    Any update on the case study? Did these sites appear again in the SERPs? I am still waiting the 301 to pass the link juice. Also did you redirect to a new domain that is containing your main keyword?
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by NeedMoney2Help View Post

      Any update on the case study? Did these sites appear again in the SERPs? I am still waiting the 301 to pass the link juice. Also did you redirect to a new domain that is containing your main keyword?
      Plenty of updates in the thread, just read them.

      I bought exact matches, only the TLD changed.
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      • Profile picture of the author nik0
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        Today I'm setting up another 6 domains using a blogger sub domain as buffer domain.

        So money site --> blogger --> new money site

        Redirect from blogger to new money site works, though there are several ways to do it so not sure if I did it correct, it does redirect but real slow, eg it loads the blogger page first and then afterwards it redirects. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, no idea.

        I redirect from the template with code in the header.

        The other sites are varied, they sure don't rank as well as at the start, many keywords disappeared, others showed up, but overall it's not very positive.
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  • Profile picture of the author NeedMoney2Help
    Can you do a wildcard redirection using blogger? I see some people claim they sustain rankings for months with double redirection for Penguin 2.0. Some use bit.ly, I can't understand how they do wild-card redirection with bit.ly, I think it is impossible.

    About the exact matches, maybe it is good if the new domain doesn't contain the keyword, because as we know Penguin doesn't like over-optimization too. So maybe instead keyword.com > keyword.net it should be keyword.com > brandable.com.
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    • Profile picture of the author DaleRodge
      The other sites are varied, they sure don't rank as well as at the start, many keywords disappeared, others showed up, but overall it's not very positive.
      Gahh, I thought you were having great results, that's why I took the plunge myself.

      Redirect from blogger to new money site works, though there are several ways to do it so not sure if I did it correct, it does redirect but real slow, eg it loads the blogger page first and then afterwards it redirects. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, no idea.
      Yep that's definitely wrong, it shouldn't be loading the page in whatsoever but I'm afraid I don't know blogger so can't advise a solution.

      About the exact matches, maybe it is good if the new domain doesn't contain the keyword, because as we know Penguin doesn't like over-optimization too. So maybe instead keyword.com > keyword.net it should be keyword.com > brandable.com.
      My domain name was already branded, so I've carried my same domain over too, just changed the extension from .co.uk to .com.

      I 301'ed yesterday, new domain hasn't appeared in SERPs yet even for a site: search so still waiting.
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      • Profile picture of the author nik0
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        Originally Posted by DaleRodge View Post

        Gahh, I thought you were having great results, that's why I took the plunge myself.

        Yep that's definitely wrong, it shouldn't be loading the page in whatsoever but I'm afraid I don't know blogger so can't advise a solution.

        My domain name was already branded, so I've carried my same domain over too, just changed the extension from .co.uk to .com.

        I 301'ed yesterday, new domain hasn't appeared in SERPs yet even for a site: search so still waiting.
        You know when this thread is started, it's pretty recent so anything can happen, and yes it did work great, for a while lol.

        When I enter the blog spot URL it does load the page, still does, however when I type in my old domain that redirects through the blog spot to the new domain it does load laser fast so I guess it's ok.

        I don't think it's a wildcard redirect but that shouldn't matter too much in my case as all the links are pointed at the homepage anyway, it just takes longer for all of it to index.
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  • Profile picture of the author DaleRodge
    While another site finally pops up on the first page the other 3 are losing all rankings, not 50-100 spots like before but out of the top 500. Seems I pissed Google off big time or maybe it's just a temp thing.
    Doh, just noticed you posted this shortly after I set it up myself haha

    What did you do on the site that seems to be OK?
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by DaleRodge View Post

      Doh, just noticed you posted this shortly after I set it up myself haha

      What did you do on the site that seems to be OK?
      Yeah seems we posted at the same time, was already slightly surprised by your response.

      Not sure what you mean with what did I do on the site, I just redirected it that's it.

      I also did a ton of link clean up though.

      You know what's funny btw, I had another site that seems a bit stuck so I double redirected that as well with the intention of building links to the new domain, the domain is not penalized but rankings disappeared.

      I also did some video submission link building for all the sites, just to add some additional diversity and brand mentions as most video sites don't allow hyperlinks.

      If all stays like this I break the redirect, move the site back to the old domain and do an attempt to recover them. Link cleanup and such is already performed so it's just waiting for Penguin to refresh.
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  • Profile picture of the author NeedMoney2Help
    Maybe the link cleanup is the cause for your rankings to disappear? Is there any site holding good rankings on page 1 now after the redirect? I am worried because I've moved more sites now that way ouch. Some people hold rankings for long time but these were all Penguin 2.0 stories, not seeing anyone with some more massive case study to prove if the method is working or not for Penguin 3.0 I guess we just have to wait and see.
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    • Profile picture of the author DaleRodge
      I'd love to jump in and offer my experience but mines yet to land anywhere in the SERPs... will update as soon as though.
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by NeedMoney2Help View Post

      Maybe the link cleanup is the cause for your rankings to disappear? Is there any site holding good rankings on page 1 now after the redirect? I am worried because I've moved more sites now that way ouch. Some people hold rankings for long time but these were all Penguin 2.0 stories, not seeing anyone with some more massive case study to prove if the method is working or not for Penguin 3.0 I guess we just have to wait and see.
      I didn't remove much links, it's more that I adjusted the sites where the links come from, eg not visible on homepage / category pages anymore but only on post level, so reducing the amount of links per domain from 3 to 1.

      This leads to some loss in strength but not to push them out of the top 500.

      Many clients received links from these same sites and since adjusting the network I haven't seen them drop, and especially not out of the top 500 lol.

      One site still ranks at page one though lower then initially, all the gains are gone.

      The 6 new redirects with blogspot as buffer have been setup today, now it's waiting for another 1.5-2 weeks to see them return and possibly disappear again.

      I'm glad I've tested it though, takes away doubts, this is done on 7 sites so it can't be related to bad luck, however who knows what happens in the next couple of days / weeks, maybe they magically start to appear again, some sites do jump in and out of the top 500 so maybe just have to wait for it to settle, though I don't have much hope.
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  • Profile picture of the author Oziboomer
    Watching this thread with interest.

    Had some Azon sites just drop out about a month ago and wasn't really paying much attention because I had otter things going on. Wasn't all but a few better ones dropped.

    Was going to try multiple 301 redirects with three or four sites linking to buffer but just didn't have time to implement.

    Just kept on with usually activities and BOOM on around the 10th several of the hit sites started moving up and the sales started spiking up without me doing anything drastic.

    Think sometimes every site gets a poke from G just to see what the reaction is. Maybe just keep calm and carry on is the way to go...at least from my experience.
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  • Profile picture of the author NeedMoney2Help
    Did you think about not removing the URLs for the old domain by WMT? It will index the new domain much slower, but I guess it should not penalize you for duplicate content, because you've got 301 redirects. Also, maybe wait more than a month because of the sandboxie effect for some of the sites. I've personally experienced such 30-day delay when I've ranked on of these sites. What I think is that maybe Google is removing your new URLs from the index too. Can you try to search with "site:newdomain.com" to see if it is still in the index?
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      Originally Posted by NeedMoney2Help View Post

      Did you think about not removing the URLs for the old domain by WMT? It will index the new domain much slower, but I guess it should not penalize you for duplicate content, because you've got 301 redirects. Also, maybe wait more than a month because of the sandboxie effect for some of the sites. I've personally experienced such 30-day delay when I've ranked on of these sites. What I think is that maybe Google is removing your new URLs from the index too. Can you try to search with "site:newdomain.com" to see if it is still in the index?
      All the sites are fully indexed, 20+ pages.

      All the old sites are deindexed now.

      Not all rankings dropped, I track about 4 keywords per site, about half of them disappeared out of top 500, the other half is now ranking at page 2 to page 4, very few page one rankings now and if at #9 or #10
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      • Profile picture of the author foxter
        Hi nik0!
        Thank you for an interesting method!
        He helped me recover my site!
        There are several questions:
        1. whether it is necessary to remove in GWT indexed pages?
        Or just put a lock robot.txt
        2.Content on the new domain must be unique?
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