Should this site start again on a new domain
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Hi
We have not done SEO on this site they have used another company who looks like they outsourced and the links have been built by a third party all blog networks and this company have said they cannot get the links removed. Google flagged artificial links on this web site in February and in April it lost over 10000 visitors in a month and its just free falled ever since.
The categories have been recreated and no redirects created due to the amount of backlinks from the blog sites to the original category pages but the site is not recovering its down to 1500 visitors a month and used to get 14000 a month.
So should my customer ditch the domain and move this site to fresh domain?
http://www.kids-beds-online.com
Any answers would really be appreciated.
thanks
Tracy
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Hey Tracy,
Yes i think it would be a good idea to start from scratch if the bad links cannot be removed, because they are only going to effect your site more and more with every Google update.
You should check If the 1500 visitors a month are returning users then they can be made aware of the domain change and you can keep that user base, however 1500 unique visitors a month would suggest that you have some good rankings somewhere so i would check to see where there being referred from and if its a particular link on a website perhaps contact them to get it changed for your new one.
Also make sure you get your old site De-indexed so there are not any duplicate content issues if you wish to keep the content you already have.
Hope i helped!
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Tracy,
If you have no way to remove the links from those blog networks, then just go ahead and start a new site. I am presuming that the blog networks were linking to the root domain? If yes, then you would save a lot of effort and budget by starting over a new site.
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