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No More Penguin - Who Moved Their Site with Promising Results?

by sharpturn
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Hello Everyone,

Like many others my site got "Penguined" and like many others I am working through my links and recosideration requests to get the penalty lifted.

Is there anyone here who has decided to move their content to another domain and seen positive results?

Is there a way to move everything over without a re-direct of some form?
From what I have read here and there some people say even with all the various re-directs the bad links will still follow.

To move to another domain from scratch I figure that would mean removing all content from the old site, wait for them to be de-indexed and then add that content back to the new domain site. Then gradually get them ranking again in the new domain.
Is this correct or am I way off?

Has anyone done this?
Any success?

Thanks,
Andy
#moved #penguin #promising #results #site
  • Profile picture of the author JMac
    Hiya,

    There is a lot of SPECULATION that Google gives out penalties. I personally do not believe this. If that where true, I could reduce my competition by using scrape box or xrummer to spam links and get their rank reduced. When you look at Google and the amazing people they hire, do you honestly think they would do something that would give us power over our competition?

    My belief is having a certain percentage of back links of one type gets the links disqualified for ranking purposes. This would prevent spamming as a means of attacking your competition and reduce the rankings for spammy sites. It would be a win-win for Google.

    My advice would be to check your links and see if a large percentage of them are from blog comments or forum profiles. If they are, try to remove a big chuck of them. Also, start working on better quality links. In the same timeframe it would take you to move your content, deindex the old site and start linking the new one, you could just adjust the current site and see an improvement in your rankings. The message here is reduce the spam, improve the quality of new links, have good original content that gets updated now and then and re-examine your keywords and on-page SEO.

    Good luck
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    • Profile picture of the author Dellco
      Penguin was a targeted strike with penalties so severe it will follow your site around even if you change domain names. Been doing research on this, and unfortunately, it appears over 90% of sites who got hit by Penguin have not recovered ever since. That was one huge nasty and evil update. 301s don't work, and it may be that Penguin even detects your old content if you move your content without a 301...according to a few people. I can't vouch for their veracity though.

      That's why I have been holding off from making the change myself. I would rather wait to see what happens when Google runs the next Penguin update. Panda yes, Penguin no.So far, they have not done any reruns. It is better to wait.
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