jemois - 10:45 pm on Jul 2, 2012 (gmt 0)

I redirected a website last year from a keyword match domain to a brand name domain It was hit by Penguin on 24 April. The SE counts the backlinks to the keyword match domain as links to the brand name domain, which is actually the same website, focusing on the same keywords. Might this trigger a Penguin penalty for the brand name domain?

Since the keyword match is a pretty old site, most of the backlinks have the anchor text "blue widgets" or the actual domain name, which is actually an over optimized backlink profile for the branded domain.

[edited by: tedster at 12:44 pm (utc) on Jul 3, 2012]