Does Google remember the content that has rolled off of it?

by Electrical Posted: 12 years ago 5 replies

I made a small secondary website in addition to my main contractor website. I got lazy and gave up before doing any SEO for the second site, and I redirected the second site's domain to the main site. The second site is now completely gone, altho it still comes up on Google until they index it again.

One concern that I have is that I put blog posts on the second site and I think they were pretty good, lots of good content and keywords. Those blog posts were (and still are) indexed on Google. In a few days or weeks I assume Google will see the redirect and any content from the second site will roll off of Google since it no longer exists.

So my question is if I can put those blog posts on my main site and have them still be considered unique? Or if Google saves that info even tho you can't see it in results? If they save the info, I don't want it to be held against my site as duplicate content.

#search engine optimization #content #google #remember #rolled

wikiklix 12 years ago

I have exactly the same question and a similar situation with many articles I posted on a site that is no longer indexed. I would be interested in peoples answers.
Electrical 12 years ago

Can anyone speak to this?

My old website is now completely off of Google. Searching for any of the text from the blogs that were on it is not showing up.

So does that mean I am clear to use those blogs on another website or will Google still remember that content and consider it copying/duplicate content?
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- yukon Banned 12 years ago
  
  It doesn't really matter If the content is on two of your own domains & you eventually do a redirect to another domain, Google will eventually self correct the SERPs (remove old indexed pages). There's no penalty If that's what your thinking.
  
  Google has to find your redirects before they remove the old pages from the SERPs. In other words draw attention to the old URLs. If the old site is hooked up to WMT you can try removing the old URLs there but I'm not sure If that deletes URLs directly from the SERPs or tries to crawl the old page again (find redirect) before removing the indexed URL.
  
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Langeani 12 years ago
I'm not completely sure about that, but you could try this one thing I JUST posted on my blog:

use this string
Code:
```
cache:http://www.yoursite.com/yourpage.html
```
If it's not there... maybe it's not on Google anymore
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Does Google remember the content that has rolled off of it?

Electrical • 12 years ago • 5 replies

I made a small secondary website in addition to my main contractor website. I got lazy and gave up before doing any SEO for the second site, and I redirected the second site's domain to the main site. The second site is now completely gone, altho it still comes up on Google until they index it again. One concern that I have is that I put blog posts on the second site and I think they were pretty good, lots of good content and keywords. Those blog posts were (and still are) indexed on Google. In a few days or weeks I assume Google will see the redirect and any content from the second site will roll off of Google since it no longer exists.