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302 redirect hindered my rankings - any ideas?

         

sbsoft

10:27 pm on Feb 12, 2014 (gmt 0)

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Would love some advice from those who know please.

Here is my situation. I had a penalized site. (Call it Site A). Site A has been penalized for a long time, with a "unnatural links" warning in Webmasters. I tried to recover it, (with some link removal and disavow file), but Google isn't doing anything. So Site A for me is dead.

Instead I created a new site, Site B, just very recently. In order to avoid a duplicate content penalty from Google, I did a temporary redirect (302), from Site A to Site B. I chose 302, to tell Google this is temporary, i.e. not to pass any link juice.

HOWEVER, today I have found out that all my Site B rankings have disappeared! But Google have not given me any warning in Webmasters.

Basically, I need advice on what to do, and how to recover Site B.

I've already removed the 302 redirect.

Many thanks.

aakk9999

11:30 am on Feb 13, 2014 (gmt 0)

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Welcome to WebmasterWorld, sbsoft.

Is site B the exact copy of Site A?

When 302 is used, Google often ranks the original URL in SERPs rather than the target URL. This could explain why your Site B ranking dropped.

When did your site B go live and how much time passed from the Site B going live to Site B disapearing from SERPs ?

How long ago did you remove 302 redirect? Have Site A pages been re-crawled by googlebot since (so that googlebot can see 302 removal)?