Don't redirect to existing new domain

mainceaft · Thursday at 2:18 PM

Alright couple months ago i did stupid thing, i bough new domain with better EMD,
And I tried to do index it first, before doing any proper SEO, no BLs.
And worst part I make it a mirror for my original domain contents (a lot of pages ).
Google didn't like that at all, and i think it sand-boxing it longer than usual, I did 301 redirect almost month from now, but no changes at all,
my original domain was indexed in less than 1 day and sometimes in couple hours.
Now not a single new page got indexed, after a month of redirection, looks like G search engine suspected in the new domain as spammy contents scraper.

Ben Arthur · Thursday at 10:00 PM

Yeah, mirroring your entire site onto a brand new domain with zero backlinks definitely triggered the spam filters. To Google it basically looked like a scraped site.

You should remove that 301 redirect right away. Right now it's probably just passing those negative spam signals over and keeping you stuck in the sandbox.

Wipe the mirrored content off the new domain and let it cool off for a few weeks. If you want to salvage the EMD later you'll need to start fresh with unique content and build up some steady foundational links to show it's legit. It just takes time to earn that trust back once you've been flagged.

BlackShield · Friday at 10:52 AM

mainceaft said:
Alright couple months ago i did stupid thing, i bough new domain with better EMD,
And I tried to do index it first, before doing any proper SEO, no BLs.
And worst part I make it a mirror for my original domain contents (a lot of pages ).
Google didn't like that at all, and i think it sand-boxing it longer than usual, I did 301 redirect almost month from now, but no changes at all,
my original domain was indexed in less than 1 day and sometimes in couple hours.
Now not a single new page got indexed, after a month of redirection, looks like G search engine suspected in the new domain as spammy contents scraper.

From what you've described, Google may have first seen the new domain as a duplicate because it was serving mirrored content before the 301 redirects were in place.

If the redirects are correct, I'd give it more time and verify that every old URL maps to its most relevant new URL. Also check indexing in Search Console, crawl errors, canonicals, and make sure you're not sending mixed signals with duplicate pages or sitemaps.

As far i know, once trust is affected, recovery is more about consistency than speed.

King Gener · Friday at 12:53 PM

A month is not long enough, honestly. Keep the 301 redirects in place, no more additional changes, and let Google get a bit more time to process everything and rebuild trust. Recovery can take multiple months, sometimes longer.

MajestySEO · Friday at 3:20 PM

It doesn't sound like a sandbox to me.

When Google first saw the new domain, it found a copy of another site with no history or authority. That likely delayed trust rather than triggered a special penalty.

Since you have already set up the 301 redirects, I would leave them in place and give Google more time to process everything. Make sure the redirects are correct, submit the new sitemap in Google Search Console, and keep publishing original content on the new domain, not the old one.

A month isn't that long for a brand new domain, especially after it started out with duplicate content.

mainceaft · Friday at 9:12 PM

Update
That was unreal, i remove that shtty domain redirect and i redirect my old domain to newer one which had better EMD,
What i was suspected was true, my new domain now indexed after couple hours from redirect and adding it to search-console.
And it exceeded it when I searched for long tail keywords (almost no one search for), and my new bad ass domain was there in first place with full description

Don't redirect to existing new domain

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