New site vs working on current site?

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Few questions - anyway to make sure content on website isn't hurting the site - for example if any blog posts may have been copeid from our site onto another - looking like duplicate to google?


Also with bad linking in the past and cleaning up your link profile how long can it take to see results?

It seems like people have different opinions on this. It would cost time and money to work on a new site. I wonder what could be more worth it, simply working on the current site - maybe put a little money into adwords - a few hundrd a month for leads and trying to make informational blog posts or working on a new site - if it could rank decently fast it could be worth it.

A proposal on a new site - to do SEO has potential but its top much money to do - thousands while our current site has seo being worked on and is cheaper since the site is established already. So far google webmaster hasn't really shown a uptick in rankings altho new words are starting to appear, after 6 months of seo (on a manually penalized site that used to rank) it's hard to say if its working or not.

Any ideas appreciated.

Thanks
#current #site #working
  • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
    You also have the option of buying an indexed name off expired lists or auctions.
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO Power
    Only a tiny percentage of penalised sites eventually recover from their penalties. I personally don't waste time on penalised domains, I start over with a new domain instead.
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  • Profile picture of the author Xelaetaks
    It is so annoying that google does that. Guess a new site may be the way to go now.
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  • Profile picture of the author howtogurus
    I agree with SEO Power, if your site had a manual penalty it will probably take too much effort to get clear of that. New site is probably best. On the content being copied, Google doesn't penalize the original source content. So if your content is original to your site and everyone else on the internet copies it, you will not be penalized. But, if you are putting content onto an article syndication site, then putting it on your site the syndication site will be listed as the original content owner and as far as Google is concerned you would be copying from the syndication site. Even if it is your original content. So, don't worry about others copying your work, they will be penalized, but also don't copy your own work (even on the same site).
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