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SERPS Recovery Strategy Using 301 redirects

Google serps dropped last year - should I start from scratch or redirect

         

hooperleed

8:52 am on May 25, 2006 (gmt 0)

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My site was hit fairly heavily last year with the bourbon update.

I think the problem was that I had lots of URLs pointed to one site and also set up some sites with virtually identical content.

I've tried to address this but just cutting everything off and having the one site but my SERPS just aren't improving.

I've emailed google to see if I've actually been blacklisted for spam techniques/duplicate content but the auto response said come here.

I'm tempted to use a 301 redirect away from my main URL to an existing site and concentrating my efforts there.

I'm just worried that if I associate the two sites google will look unfavourably on the new site.

Should I just start from scratch?

I'm reluctant to do so because <my domain> has got a Page Rank of 4 and still gets some traffic.

Any thoughts or advice would be great.

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[edited by: tedster at 8:57 am (utc) on May 25, 2006]

Stefan

2:28 am on May 26, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I'm tempted to use a 301 redirect away from my main URL to an existing site and concentrating my efforts there.

It might very possibly just forward the problems. You could try that, or whatever, but you could also establish a new, clean domain, in case the old site is total poison and a lost cause.