What Happens If I Nuke and Restart My Site?

by bcmwp
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I'm planning to restart my site on a new domain, since it's not recovering from Penguin.

Here's my plan:

1. Use robots.txt to block search engines.
2. Use the url remover tool to wipe the whole site from Google.
3. Make sure it's completely gone from Google's SERPs.
4. Put the content back up on a new domain.
5. Delete the original site.

If I do this, what happens?
#nuke #restart #site
  • Bcmwp,

    Theoretically, you may have a fresh start however if your domain has been blacklisted and you don’t know about it, all that work will go to waste. Is there some reason you need to keep the same domain name? If not, I would suggest starting with a new one.

    If you keep the current domain, you will also want to be sure any bad links are removed and you may even want to think about submitting a reconsideration request to Google.

    Hope that helps,

    Shawn
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  • Profile picture of the author LloydMS
    I agree with TheContentAuthority. Unless there's a really compelling reason, I'd consider starting fresh with a new domain. Often it can be much easier to just start over than try and recover from penalties.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jeb Binkley
    I have done something similar in the past when restarting one of my own domains after a Penguin penalty from Google. Remove your old site from Google's index while at the same time, you can copy the content over to your new site and just block the search engines from crawling it. When the old site has been removed, make your new site available to the search engines and you are good to go. My new site is doing well in the rankings after nornal SEO practices with no hint of the penalty or duplicate content.
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