Moving site to new Domain Name

New domain because earlier is banned on Google

[neelkumar]

Hi

I recently purchased a new domain and configured my site on this. Google crawls all the pages but does not shows them in the index. It has been more than one month since I launced this site.

It seems that this domain is banned on google as it was earlier registered.

I have purchased a similar new domain so that google can index this new domain but I want to run the site on my earlier domain also because that domain has branding factor attached to itself.

Can somebody suggest how can I implement this without defying google norms.

[neelkumar]

Is my question not clear...do I need to give more inputs.

[Quadrille]

If your previous site was banned, then linking to that site could contribute to getting the new site banned.

Best start clean.

If the new site is carrying the same copy as the old one, then two pieces of advice.

(1) Remove the old site and forget about t - take all the content tdown, or the new site may suffer duplicate content problems.

(20 Be sure - absoutely sure - that you've identified and removed ALL the stuff that got you banned ... or ... :)

I know it's obvious, but check again. And again! - no sense pouring Good Money After Bad!

[Komodo_Tale]

Get yourself a Google Sitemaps account (It does not require a sitemap). Then, from the welcome page file a reinclusion request. Explain in a friendly, polite way that you recently purchased the domain and you were concerned that Google does not appear to be indexing the site and you are wondering if there is a penalty on the domain. Include your email in the body of your request.

I had a similar situation, did the above, and received reassurance from Google via email that there was no penalty.

Why do this? Because if there is no penalty you will avoid expending your energy only to receive a similar result. If there is a penalty or ban through no fault of your own they will very likely help you to resolve this.

[minnapple]

I had a domain banned by Google, might fault.

I excluded GoogleBot in robots.txt file on that domain.

Then I published the content on a new domain and excluded yahoo's and msn's bot's from that site.

When I update the site, I need to refresh it on both domains.

It takes more effort, but it works.

[neelkumar]

Thanks for your response.

I am taking following steps, please acknowledge if these are right:

1) I am removing all content from my old site and putting it on my new site.

2) In my old site I am putting a robots.txt with

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

3) I have created a .htaccess for my old site with

Redirect 301 / [newdomain.com...]

4) I am also pointing the incoming links to the new domain.

Hope what I am doing is all correct.

I must also point out here that my old banned site is not banned because of any fault from my side and appears to be banned because it was earler registered by sombody else. No site used to exist on this domain, it was only registered.

Also the old site was being spidered by google daily including the new additions but was not appearing in the Google Index.

The site:myolddomain.com command gave 0 results but cache:myolddomain.com shows cache of 1st July.

Its only that it has been over a month google spidering the site and it not appearing in the Index that makes me believe that it is banned.

[SuddenlySara]

no wonder google is banning you. it used to make sense. as the search engines grow, too much bull without a clue?

[leadegroot]

If it was a previous owner that got the domain banned then you have good chances with a reinclusion request - I've heard of similar situations where the domain was reincluded after they confirmed the domain registration had changed.

[neelkumar]

But I think this would lead to the sandbox penalty...