Should you redirect a site that has a Google penalty to a site that does not have a penalty?
I
get this question all the time from webmasters. They have a bunch of
sites, some of those sites got hit by either an algorithmic or manual
penalty. They don't want to lose everything, so they ask if they should
301 redirect the penalized domain to the unpenalized domain.
My
answer is almost always, don't do it. Don't send the negative link
signals from your penalized domain to your unpenalized domain.
I
don't think Google ever specifically answered this question - they may
have. But it seems logical not to want to redirect a bad site to a
clean site.
Oh, so what about negative SEO you ask? Good
question. What is to stop you from redirecting your penalized domain to
a competitors site? I guess Google has some failsafes for stuff like
that?
What do you think?
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