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"What doesn't work, is what we proposed about moving a site and trying to build the new site while maintaining the old site. This does not work mainly because you can get identified as a mirror site and one of the urls will get blocked. I have a few sites that are on the "half moved" fence. They still exist at both urls. Now they are considered mirrors, and Google has (rightfully) blocked (I hate the "ban" word) one of the sites.
So now we are setting on the fence. The old site getting great traffic with quality rankings on all search engines and the shiney new site viewed as a mirror and dead. Do you delete and forward to the new site, or scratch the idea altogether"
The question is should I even bother redirecting to my new Url? I've done just as above and am probably "banned" as a mirror.
How would I know? (the new URL does not come up in searches and should as I've been linked by various other sites)...Guess I am banned...Could someone please give me some advice..Thanks
How recent are the domains? I would think if they are only a month or 2 old then you should be ok. How long have the new links to the new url been live? Usually takes Google 2 months to include new sites. I would change to the 301.
The first Url is about a year old (google visted yesterday), the "new" one was aquired on 02/10/2002 and has had the exact same content as the old one for that amount of time.
I've been adding links to the new one instead of the old and transfering all the links from the old one to the new one.
The problem all came about when I "was" listed in DMOZ and tried to change my URL to the new one by using their change url cgi script, it would not recognise my original Url so I added my new Url regardless, and ever since have been demoted to the google directory only with no way to change the URL other than maybe a 301 redirect, I have emailed the catagory editor and she replied saying that she would find out what had happened and she hasn't got back to me in about 3 months even after repeated attempts.
So I think google is aware of the mirror and I have more than likely been banned on the new Url, is there any way of checking and does anyone know how long the ban is for?
