Redirecting Aged Site Advice

jeffers · Sep 5, 2022

I'm hoping someone can show me the way forward on this.

I bought an aged domain just under a year ago. It's getting a lot of bot traffic, which initially stopped me getting it into Ezoic.

That's been fixed but it's not performing very well. I think it's because I've had to turn off a lot of traffic from certain countries because of the bots.

I've had enough of trying to fix this and just want to move forward. So can I start a new domain and simply 301 the aged domain to it? Is this the best way? Should I copy the content over and just leave it to quietly age or should I try and remove it from Google before the redirect?

Really confused right now.

Any help would be welcome.

tazarbm · Sep 5, 2022

if it still has good backlinks recreate the pages (exact URL structure + exact content) that have the good backlinks and re-index those pages (if they don't re-index on their own first).

If those pages start ranking again and you're pleased with the amount of traffic the domain gets... or with its rankings at least, you can turn into a money site cause you have the advantage of the domain having bypassed the sandbox and it supposedly has some authority too because of the backlinks.

If it doesn't have good backlinks you can 301 it to another domain... although, if it has no backlinks (so, no SEO value) I don't see what good it will do you 301-ing it. But since you've held onto it for 1 year I'm guessing that it does have some SEO value, so get those pages back up and either use the domain as your new money site, or 301 it to a different domain but in the same niche

jeffers · Sep 6, 2022

tazarbm said:
if it still has good backlinks recreate the pages (exact URL structure + exact content) that have the good backlinks and re-index those pages (if they don't re-index on their own first).

If those pages start ranking again and you're pleased with the amount of traffic the domain gets... or with its rankings at least, you can turn into a money site cause you have the advantage of the domain having bypassed the sandbox and it supposedly has some authority too because of the backlinks.

If it doesn't have good backlinks you can 301 it to another domain... although, if it has no backlinks (so, no SEO value) I don't see what good it will do you 301-ing it. But since you've held onto it for 1 year I'm guessing that it does have some SEO value, so get those pages back up and either use the domain as your new money site, or 301 it to a different domain but in the same niche

Thanks for the reply.

That's exactly what I've done with it at present. I've recreated the most linked to pages. The site has around 3k links. Moz says DA48 but Semrush is a lot lower in its valuation.

The reason for redirecting is that I'm having to deal with a lot (I mean a lot) of bot traffic. It's skewing analytics all over the place.

I thought redirecting to a new domain might make more sense. Keeping things simpler and still hold on to the majority of the domain authority if not all. I realise some will be lost.

Thanks again

Hawkeye Digital · Sep 6, 2022

Redirect it mate , as be sure that you are safe sided first !

jeffers · Sep 6, 2022

Hawkeye Digital said:
Redirect it mate , as be sure that you are safe sided first !

Sorry..safe sided?

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