Starting up again fresh, on a new domain, redirect old violated site?

[Ma2T]

I have a four year old site, which was booted out of google at the start of the year, I was hoping for a re-index, and have been waiting, sent reconsideration requests etc, but nothing.

You can read more here: [webmasterworld.com...]

I'm still not 100% why I was kicked out, but I can only think google didn't like my titles. I used the word review in many of my titles as the default end "Post title - widget Reviews" when not all posts were reviews.

I have finally given up hope.

So I have decided to start a fresh on a new domain, and new site (same topic), but will avoid the same mistakes.

This is my plan.

1) New domain, new site, new layout, new content, ALL new.
2) Post / run this site to a high quality.
3) In time (after indexed by Google) Move over some key quality posts from old site.

4?) Should I redirct key posts with many links from old site to new domain?

5?) Redirect site main URL?

Over the years I have built up many decent links from many sites. It would be ashame to loose these..

I would like to redirect the main URL, and then maybe some select posts with many links to their new location.

Would this be good, or a thing to avoid? IE, best not to link (redirect) "bad" site to the new one?

I would be very open to your suggestions.

I'm still indexed in yahoo, bing etc.

Thanks for the help!

[Robert Charlton]

If you've got "decent links from many sites", redirecting them to related pages will transfer most of the link credit from them... but, that said, redirecting to a new site may not be the best approach to fix things.

If your problems with Google were caused by onpage titles, content, and structure, I can't see that moving content over to a new domain is going to fix anything. I'd fix onpage problems on the old site.

If the problems were due, say, to questionable inbound links, then redirecting the old domain to the new domain is likely to cause the new domain to inherit these linking difficulties.

From what is said in the first thread, it's not clear that you've figured out what your problem is.

[incrediBILL]

redirecting to a new site may not be the best approach to fix things

Very true.

I know a site that did this because although the site itself was penalized the pages themselves still had juice and they simply redirected to a new site to sidestep the penalty.

Worked just fine until they got caught and Google penalized all the new sites as well and it took them almost 2 years to get back into the index.

I'd closely examine all your old outbound links (if you still know them) and your current inbound links and see it there's any problem areas.