After Penguin - moving small site to subdomain of trusted site?

[rag_gupta]

I've a site with somewhere around visits of 1-3000/day but in Oct it was slapped by Penguine. Since then I've added plenty of content but Google wouldn't let the traffic rise. It hardly has any useful backlinks. All visitors reach the site through Google only.

I've uploaded bad link pages using Disavow tool. I can't wait till next Penuguin update, even when it is run I'm not sure if site rankings will improve.

So I've a question - if I duplicate this same site to be subdomain of a established and trusted domain - what will happen?

Ok one day Google will find it to be duplicate of my other site but in the meantime will the subdomained site rank well?

If the subdomain is penalized (by say Panda etc) .. will it affect trust of other subdomains hosted or even the main domain?

[GoNC]

This is just my opinion, I haven't had this exact problem.

I suspect that, IF you're 100% sure that the problem that penalized you in the first place is fixed, then moving it might help. But that's assumes that the new subdomain is indexed sooner than the site changes would be, in the first place.

It's a huge gamble, though; if you still have a problem that causes a penalty, then you might just end up killing the second domain, too. If so, I think it would affect the entire domain, not just the subdomain.

[3zero]

I wouldn't risk it myself as you could end up with two penalized sites. How about just putting the content onto a new domain.

[rag_gupta]

3zero I won't be redirecting from old site to new subdomain so Penguin won't affect the new subdomain.

[JD_Toims]

All visitors reach the site through Google only.

IMO this is a *bad* plan looking forward -- As far as "right now" goes, I'd personally be inclined to take-a-shot at moving to a new domain based on the information given, but as far as long-term goes, depending on Google for traffic is something I'd try to avoid any way I could.

[superclown2]

Why duplicate the content? Why not re-write it?