Wanting To Restart Website After Penguin Penalty - Advice Please
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Hi everyone,
I have a website that got hit by Penguin last year, probably because of some press releases that got put on splogs without my knowledge (grr...). I had the releases taken down, but it hasn't recovered, and I'm tired of waiting.
At any rate, I'd like to keep going with the site, and I have over 12k Facebook followers. Because most of my traffic is now coming through Facebook, I can pretty easily move my site to a new domain and keep my fans.
However, I don't want to ditch all my old content, for the simple reason that I like it and want it to stay part of my site. However, I don't want to use any 301 redirects or anything like that, since that seems to redirect the Penguin penalty.
Are ther any suggestions about how I might go about this? My worry is that if I clone large portions of the old site, Google might think my new site has no original content, which could hurt both my SERPs for new content and potentially my Adsense account.
I thought of a couple ideas:
1. Clone parts of the site on the new domain, then noindex or delete the old domain out of existence.
2. Noindex or delete the old domain out of existence, then clone parts of the old site on the new domain.
3. Clone parts of the old site on the new domain, but leave the old site there.
4. Noindex and then reindex the original site. Would this reset my penalty somehow? The bad links are almost all gone.
5. Somehow tell Google that my site has moved, but with no 301 redirects, so as to not keep the penalty, but at least let them know that it's not duplicate.
6. Put the old content on the new site, but have "noindex" tags on the reproduced pages.
7. Any other suggestions.
My basic goal is to start over in terms of the SERPs, etc., but to keep as much of my content as possible. I'll keep my fans. I don't care about keeping my old domain or my old links, just my old content. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I have a website that got hit by Penguin last year, probably because of some press releases that got put on splogs without my knowledge (grr...). I had the releases taken down, but it hasn't recovered, and I'm tired of waiting.
At any rate, I'd like to keep going with the site, and I have over 12k Facebook followers. Because most of my traffic is now coming through Facebook, I can pretty easily move my site to a new domain and keep my fans.
However, I don't want to ditch all my old content, for the simple reason that I like it and want it to stay part of my site. However, I don't want to use any 301 redirects or anything like that, since that seems to redirect the Penguin penalty.
Are ther any suggestions about how I might go about this? My worry is that if I clone large portions of the old site, Google might think my new site has no original content, which could hurt both my SERPs for new content and potentially my Adsense account.
I thought of a couple ideas:
1. Clone parts of the site on the new domain, then noindex or delete the old domain out of existence.
2. Noindex or delete the old domain out of existence, then clone parts of the old site on the new domain.
3. Clone parts of the old site on the new domain, but leave the old site there.
4. Noindex and then reindex the original site. Would this reset my penalty somehow? The bad links are almost all gone.
5. Somehow tell Google that my site has moved, but with no 301 redirects, so as to not keep the penalty, but at least let them know that it's not duplicate.
6. Put the old content on the new site, but have "noindex" tags on the reproduced pages.
7. Any other suggestions.
My basic goal is to start over in terms of the SERPs, etc., but to keep as much of my content as possible. I'll keep my fans. I don't care about keeping my old domain or my old links, just my old content. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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