Manual Penalty, change from .com to .net?

Hi,

Back with another question, I sure hope someone on here can help me out! :help:

So one of my sites got hit by a manual penalty, a couple of months work and a lot of money went into creating this site so obviously I was quite upset, but anyway I took the website down and waited for google to deindex the whole site, once deindexed I bought the same domain but instead of .com i bought .net. I re uploaded the same website not changing anything.

So basically the same website on a different domain, I was told by a few people this should be fine to rank again along as google has deindexd the old website completely. I just wanted to see what other people think of this before I start wasting even more money

Really appreciate the help everyone is offering on this site!
Look forward to hearing some reply's.

How you know that your site got a manual penalty?

ija61 said:

How you know that your site got a manual penalty?

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Logged into google WMT and it said I had a "Manual Action"

Was it a thin content penalty or a link penalty? If it was a link penalty you should be fine as long as you don't redirect the old domain to the new one. If it's a thin content penalty that will catch up with the new domain soon enough.

ja1myn said:

Was it a thin content penalty or a link penalty? If it was a link penalty you should be fine as long as you don't redirect the old domain to the new one. If it's a thin content penalty that will catch up with the new domain soon enough.

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Was a link penalty, think it was the SAPE links pointing towards my website.

dmxsta said:

Was a link penalty, think it was the SAPE links pointing towards my website.

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Ok then yeah, starting fresh on a new domain is your best bet.

dmxsta said:

Was a link penalty, think it was the SAPE links pointing towards my website.

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It's clear your site penalized due to spam links, there is always recovery chances, I am not sure you tried it or not.
You can start new domain with same content, but there is definitely some risk, your content is saved in somewhere in Google database, (it will be removed from the search engine, but remain save in Google record), why not to invest some more in content? Why not hire some writer to re-write content or make some changes to make it difference from previous content?

thesam said:

It's clear your site penalized due to spam links, there is always recovery chances, I am not sure you tried it or not.
You can start new domain with same content, but there is definitely some risk, your content is saved in somewhere in Google database, (it will be removed from the search engine, but remain save in Google record), why not to invest some more in content? Why not hire some writer to re-write content or make some changes to make it difference from previous content?

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I was told by a few people that it's not worth trying to recover, they just told me to buy a new domain and reupload the same website and all should be fine, thanks for the helpful reply!
I might change a bit of content around then start the SEO process again.

Let the old content be in the new site, however add more related content. Don't build the same kind of links that got you the penalty in first place, you are wiser now.