Quick double 301 redirect question

rankjuice said:

2 kws have jumped back up to top 3 today

Im just gonna forget about the site for a week and start building another one

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rankjuice said:

A few days ago, a handfull of my sites got a 'pure spam' warning. One of which was making me a decent amount of money while it was ranking.

After the hit, i did a double 301 redirect to a month old site that was targeting the same kws.

Before the redirect, the new site was ranking on pages 2 and 3 for all kws.

This morning I checked my rank tracker to find that they had bounced to the top of page one.

I have been randomly checking over the past few hours and the rankings have gone back to pages 2/3

Im no expert when it comes to 301s as iv not done one in years

So my question is.. is this normal? Should i expect the rankings to shoot back up?

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Calmly69 said:

Hey bud,
Any update? How is the site faring now?

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rankjuice said:

The site eventually settled in the top 5 spots (a few spots down from where it used to rank, but this may be because of link loss through the 301s), so I pointed 10 PBNs at them and the site is now ranked number 1 on all kws

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Calmly69 said:

Awesome buddy. Glad you got your income stream back.

I had my site hit 2 days ago and I've set up a double 301 redirect yesterday. Can you tell me how long did it take for your site to get the ranking back?

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rankjuice said:

A few days ago, a handfull of my sites got a 'pure spam' warning. One of which was making me a decent amount of money while it was ranking.

After the hit, i did a double 301 redirect to a month old site that was targeting the same kws.

Before the redirect, the new site was ranking on pages 2 and 3 for all kws.

This morning I checked my rank tracker to find that they had bounced to the top of page one.

I have been randomly checking over the past few hours and the rankings have gone back to pages 2/3

Im no expert when it comes to 301s as iv not done one in years

So my question is.. is this normal? Should i expect the rankings to shoot back up?

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rankjuice said:

Cant really put a timescale on it TBH. I have had rankings come back within 48 hours, and had some sites that never even reach the top 100 (even a month later). From my testing, it is kind of hit and miss if the double 301 will work.

The site I talked about at the start of the thread, the site was back in the top 3 within a few days (think it was about 3/4 days)

I think that the time it takes to come back will depend on a few different factors such as, amount of backlinks, quality of backlinks and how often the links are crawled. The more high quality links you have that are crawled daily, the faster the ranking should come back. (Just a theory, I could be wrong. If anyone can correct me then please let us know)

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