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Penguin recovery with 301 redirects?

by seoed
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Hey everyone,


some of my sites were hit by penguin and although I tried to recover them
with higher quality backlinks and varying anchor text it didn't help.

I had read in blog post of someone that he managed to recover his
site by doing 301 redirects from the penguin-hit domain to a new
domain targeting the same keywords.

He did actually redirect every subpage of this website to the
homepage of the new domain.

I wanted to do the same, however, first I would like to know
what you think about it? Has anyone made a similar experiment?


Best regards
#301 #penguin #recovery #redirects
  • Profile picture of the author realseowarrior
    301 will bring a temporary shift in your ranking but soon Penguin penalty will pass to new domain and you will have to start again.
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    • Profile picture of the author Steviep
      Originally Posted by realseowarrior View Post

      301 will bring a temporary shift in your ranking but soon Penguin penalty will pass to new domain and you will have to start again.
      That would mean any blackhatter could redirect a punished domain to their competitor and bomb them out of search, so I doubt a punishment would be passed though a 301.

      I've read quite a few case studies now where 301 has helped people recovery, so it's worth a try I think. If removing bad links, balancing your anchor text mix, disavow tool etc has not brought you back.
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  • Profile picture of the author cameronf
    how to fix specif key word rankings, i had everything but went a little overboard so can you fix from big pr domains or any ideas how to be un penalised as well
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  • Profile picture of the author seoed
    301 will bring a temporary shift in your ranking but soon Penguin penalty will pass to new domain and you will have to start again.
    Hm, never heard of that before. But could be possible as it makes sense somehow...

    Did you read about it or made the experience?
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  • Profile picture of the author R8chel
    Hi SEOed
    I've been hit badly by both algorithms, but recovered today. I'm back on Page 1 with my affiliate Exact Match Domain 8-)

    I've written an article about how I did it, but I can't post a link until I've built up my credits.. 8-)

    Just google "Hubpages Rachel Roodhardt" and you'll find me...


    Rachel
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  • Profile picture of the author masterjani
    301 ing domain is working somewhat good, But if you got any unnatural link warning or any other manual action taken, then correct those things, otherwise penalty will pass to new domain as well
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    • Profile picture of the author F1SEO
      Yep totally agree. If you've got a penalty, ditch the domain, redrect 301 to a new domain .. the penalty will follow. And you'll have to get a new domain - and no 301, start over.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jerome15
    this is what i did, just for a trial. my site was ranking on top 1. since the emd update happened . i believed my site was not penalized by panda or penguin as i did proper way of backlinking manually and the only thing is it's emd. i bought new domain transfered all my contents and redirected my old domain to the new one. for now i'm getting traffic but still dancing and i'm still observing its serp movement
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