Pretty Big Screw up

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Goro333

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So, I did something very stupid. I sold one of my my domain names by accident (forgot I had it up for sale)... Yeah I know, huge fail on my part.

My question is this, can I still use the articles, pages and posts from the old site on a different new domain name about the same topic? How would Google see these articles? Would Google see them as duplicate content, or can I just copy paste from old site to new (I've got a backup of the old site). I pretty much have zero backlinks to the old site, it was just good written content that helped the articles rank. The old site started ranking pretty good on google for some long tail keywords, so I would like to get some of that traffic back. Thoughts? I put in a bit of time into the site before the domain name sold on Pennies on the Dollar. Any insight would be helpful.

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ContentExpert said:
That's not something you read every day.


Funny you ask as your domain buyer will likely do the same.
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Haha, yeah indeed. The funniest (and at the same time saddest thing_ about it all, is that it sold for $100 :( Talk about an idiot mistake, dang.. Oh well...

Good point on the buyer doing the same thing. Well, no matter. One of my main articles was only about 4000 words long. I've got another one written at 9,000 words to go as replacement. But didn't want to have to do the extra work for the rest of the site.

Anyhow, I appreciate you replying ContentExpert.
 
If you sold the domain- implication is you sold the content. So you can't keep it
 
highflying said:
If you sold the domain- implication is you sold the content. So you can't keep it
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Interesting. So even though it sold through godaddy as just the domainname, and not the whole site through a broker like Flippa, that implication still applies? Interesting indeed. Thanks for your input, I will definitely consider that in helping me decide how to approach this all.
 
Did you sell the. Website with the domain.

I think you might need spinrewritter to make the articles look fresh .
 
Goro333 said:
Interesting. So even though it sold through godaddy as just the domainname, and not the whole site through a broker like Flippa, that implication still applies? Interesting indeed. Thanks for your input, I will definitely consider that in helping me decide how to approach this all.
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If this was a domain-only sale, as in, the website wasn't included, you are not obligated or required to provide whatever content you previously had on your website.

He purchased the domain name, not a website/content/design.
 
The buyer does not have any of the content. He would need to go and retrieve it from the Internet Archive (if it is there).

You still own the content.

It's no different than if a business rebranded, moved their content to a new domain then dropped the old domain.

If you continue to run your site on a new domain and the buyer takes the content from the Archive and uses it, you could send a DMCA notice.
 
redarrow said:
Did you sell the. Website with the domain.

I think you might need spinrewritter to make the articles look fresh .
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Nope, just the domain name.

ContentExpert said:
If this was a domain-only sale, as in, the website wasn't included, you are not obligated or required to provide whatever content you previously had on your website.

He purchased the domain name, not a website/content/design.
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Exactly what I thought and hoped for, thanks for your reply.

RRunner said:
The buyer does not have any of the content. He would need to go and retrieve it from the Internet Archive (if it is there).

You still own the content.

It's no different than if a business rebranded, moved their content to a new domain then dropped the old domain.

If you continue to run your site on a new domain and the buyer takes the content from the Archive and uses it, you could send a DMCA notice.
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Yep, I agree with this. Thought the same thing. Good tidbit on the DCMA piece, Hopefully I won't have to go that route .

Awesome, I already have a new domain name that I will rebuild the site on completely with the old content as well as new one.

I was literally just getting to the point where I was starting to monetize the site, and then this crap happened.
 
no way man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you cant stealing other's work and claim it is yours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
ContentExpert said:
If this was a domain-only sale, as in, the website wasn't included, you are not obligated or required to provide whatever content you previously had on your website.

He purchased the domain name, not a website/content/design.
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this is something new for me because I thought buying domain meant buying the content on it too
 
dodoboy said:
no way man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you cant stealing other's work and claim it is yours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I think you misunderstood the initial post. I did not sell the content with the sale, only the domain name. So technically, I should be able to use my old site's content on a new site. Now, whether the old content will still rank on a new site is the real question.

Mr Positive said:
this is something new for me because I thought buying domain meant buying the content on it too
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We both learn't something new today :)
 
Ok this clarifies. Assumed it was sold on flippa where the entire lock stock barrel goes to the buyer
 
Goro333 said:
I think you misunderstood the initial post.
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no way man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! once you sold the domain name , the content will be buyer's contents . you cannot claim it is your content because that domain had been sold to your buyer !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
dodoboy said:
no way man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! once you sold the domain name , the content will be buyer's contents . you cannot claim it is your content because that domain had been sold to your buyer !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Nope, nope and nope.

If OP sold the domain, he literally sells only the domain. If he sold the whole website, the deal would be: Domain, website and content.
 
dodoboy said:
no way man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! once you sold the domain name , the content will be buyer's contents . you cannot claim it is your content because that domain had been sold to your buyer !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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There is difference between domain and website.

OP sold domain by mistake.

He didn't sell website.

So content belongs to OP.

Thing is how to use content on new website. Till content is indexed in Google, OP can not use content on new website.

There are few options.
  1. Contact buyer and try to buy domain again. You might have to pay more than $100. Try to explain your situation.
  2. If buyer does not agree, submit url removal request before Google try to verify domain again.
 
If the domain is still connected to google search console, try finding all of the pages through there and submit a de-index thing for all the pages. That way once they're deindexed you can re-upload the whole website on a new domain without issues. I did the same thing when I switched domains for my money site and no issues.
 
You have accidentally sold the domain, not the website. So technically, you still own the content. HOWEVER, i believe google indexed the content of said domain, wait until the content is out of the index and then upload the old site on a new domain.

This however could take some time unless you have google webmaster tools (Now called google search console) which will make you able to deindex each and every piece of content you want to use on your new domain.
 
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