Since there are many sites hurt lately I had a idea (not a solution but a preparement for the worse)

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Just an idea:

When you penalize an innerpage you can rename that innerpage, rename the innerlinks pointing to that page and build new links to it. Piece of cake, worked extremely well a couple of times, you can even use the same content cause it's not content that gets penalized but the specific exact url.

As we can't rename the url of the homepage we can do something else as a pre caution before we start building links, so this applies mostly to new sites or sites that you plan to build links to again.

Not sure if this is flawed thinking, I don't think so but here we go. Your very homepage has different types of urls for Google:

homepage.com
homepage.com/index.html
homepage.com/index.php
homepage.com/home.php
homepage.com/home.html

The "internet" treats all these 5 as exactly the same. Obvious the ones with the words behind the / depends on how the file in your public_html is named.

My site is for example homepage.com/index.php , same like the most typical Wordpress site, so what I can do is point all my links to the exact url: http://homepage.com/index.php , now if I go to wild with my links and my homepage gets penalized I can rename index.php to home.php, and gone are all the bad links pointing at my site, and thus I got rid of my penalty pretty easily (same like renaming an innerpage url helped), while all the rest of the structure remains intact and can help my homepage rank again.

But if you build all links to homepage.com there is nothing to rename.

What you think? Do I miss something here or is it just a genius idea?
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    Oh btw, dont point your links at index.html cause when I type in homepage.com/index.html despite that my file is called index.php I get redirected to a page that says: "Oops, The Page You Are Looking For Cannot Be Located." so then the bad links would still point to your site. When I type in homepage.com/home.php or homepage.com/home.html this does not happen.
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  • the other way is to build links to 301s and then if the links turn bad you can turn the 301s off which protects your money site....

    I have been testing this with some great success especially with my offline clients :-)
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      Yes that would definetly work as well, at the moment I am testing something with url shorteners btw, and then specifically a subdomain url shortener as I have some really great ideas in mind for that.
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  • When i link build I really do mix it up I use to just build to my home page but I soon started deep linking and I saw better results deep linking.

    On client sites I like building links to 301's as you are protecting yourself but not only that you have a lot more control.

    I took a hit from a client who folded just recently that owed me a fair few grand... no probs I just changed the 301 to a new site and my time was not wasted...

    You need to protect your money sites

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      You're one smart SEO'er, I can give you that

      A question though, you say you changed the 301 to a new site, but it sure had to be in the same niche I suppose to get the anchor benefit from that, and as you like deep linking, you now do a lot of 301s or you just stick to the homepage? I think it might hurt when you do a lot of 301's with other domains to one site right?
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