dangerman - 1:03 pm on Jan 2, 2007 (gmt 0)

Happy New Year fellow minus 31 sufferers!

Long term patients, I wold like to suggest that this is a good time to start looking at new strategies. You were wacked by the penalty, realised that there were several webmaster misdemeanours, corrected them over maybe a dozen iterations? Now your site is probably squeaky clean but still you have the penalty.

What are the options?

Do you continue to spend time and money on the site, adding new content, updating outdated pages etc even though you have no been receiving any return on this investment for 6 months plus?

Or do you say 'ENOUGH ALREADY!" and start moving ahead with new domains and/or projects?

I have had some luck on a sample of pages that I have moved to a different domain and applied (specific) 301 redirects from oldsite to newsite. I then rewrote the oldsite pages and created new urls for them so as to avoid duplicate content issues. The 301's pages on the new domain are doing quite well on Google, certainly above #31 but not up quite as high as before. Downside to this approach is that the rewriting of pages is time-consuming, if you want to retain the content on oldsite. But this is not necessary if you are prepared to abandon oldsite. Also you need to feel reasonably confident that the major problems with your pages, that created the penalty in the first place, are removed otherwise the obvious risk is that newsite will also get wacked.

Anyone have any other ideas / fresh approaches?