Redirecting A Hit Website!

cloakme · Jun 12, 2012

Any knowledge appreciated. I have never redirected a whole website over to a new domain before and am looking for some opinions/help.

I had a website that was on the top of google in many different keywords before the update and now it is gone. Not in the top 100 at all. I still have been linking to it in a variety of ways and it hasn't budged.

I was thinking about cloning the site and deleting the other and just redirecting this domain over to the new site since I have faithful customers that already know the url.

Is this a good idea or will I receive a penalty to the new site from G.

virginpose · Jun 12, 2012

I wouldn't do it anymore, I did for a site and thought I had escaped the penalty but it got passed over about 3 weeks after the redirect. A lot of others have similar stories of the penalty passing over too.

VIC SEO · Jun 12, 2012

Its a good thing you are doing.Dont delete the blog ,instead re-direct.Getting customers is hardest part.You can keep your customers with you if you re-direct.

cloakme · Jun 13, 2012

Thanks for the replies. I appreciate it. Is there any more people that have any knowledge on this. I don't want to jump into it an have the same problem. It would be worthless. Thanks in advance..

fpforum · Jun 13, 2012

If you do decide to go the right of setting up a new website then I would suggest using the Permanent redirect to let Google know the redirect is going to be there for good.

codo3500 · Jun 13, 2012

I made 2 sites after penguin.
- One was a duplicate of a hit site, with a 301 to it from the old hit site
- One was a completely fresh site

While I'm yet to be hit again with the penalty, the 301'd site is being outranked by the new site that I've done sensible linkbuilding on. Sensible linkbuilding makes Panda your bitch - forget your old site.

Aty · Jun 13, 2012

Penalties usually get passed with redirects.

cpaviking · Jun 13, 2012

301 redirect it to a duplicate domain. AND build a new domain. Maybe post on the old one that you are moving.

Four Seasons · Jun 13, 2012

You can redirect the whole website into a new domain, still getting the link juice. Edit the .htacess file in the home directory of the old website, add the line:

Code:

RedirectMatch 301 / (.*) http://newdomain.com

SuperNoobInc · Jun 13, 2012

Four Seasons said:
You can redirect the whole website into a new domain, still getting the link juice. Edit the .htacess file in the home directory of the old website, add the line:

Code:

RedirectMatch 301 / (.*) http://newdomain.com

Will this pass the penalty to the new domain tho?
I have read mix answers here.. I am a little confused here myself as well.

cloakme · Jun 13, 2012

Ladies & Gentlemen, After all the replies I am still not sure on what is the best option. Should I just duplicate a new domain(site) and the do a permanent 301 redirect or should I just wait and hopefully it will be put back in the serps down the road. I will tell you I learned my lesson with the big G. I am actually building many different sites for the same niches now. I am then to be doing different seo tactics on all of them so if I get hit on one them I won't hopefully be hit on all of them. I am using different web-hosting and having all of my info private so they can't be linked in anyway. This way I can hopefully really dominate the niches also.

Robby54 · Jun 13, 2012

This is what I want to know to.. I mean weather to create a new site or not?

As for the 301 It is a hit or miss. I tried it with 3 sites (before peguin) and all three of the passed the penalty. But for some it dose not hit until later and some not at all.

This is why I say it is a hit more miss type of situation.

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