Domain Penalty Transfer via Redirect - WV Flooring
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Hello Moz-folks,
We are doing SEO for a Calgary based company - westvalleyflooring.com
The domain was ranking really poorly (even though the website was structured quite well). This lead me to believe that it was penalized for poor links. I redirected the domain to westvalleyflooring.ca
We also improved the website structure and content. We began building citations, and eventually, after a few months, it made into page #1.
Unfortunately, after the last pinguin update, the domain virtually disappeared. We waited, but it did not become re-indexed. I elected to change the domain yet again to floorscalgary.com
That domain has now been indexed, but is on page #7. We are building citations for it, but it is a little daunting because it is so far back. Right now, the redirets look like this:
westvalleyflooring.com --> westvalleyflooring.ca --> floorscalgary.com
Should it go like this:
westvalleyflooring.com --> floorscalgary.com
westvalleyflooring.ca --> floorscalgary.com
Do you agree with my decision to change the domain?
Thanks,
Anton
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In this particular case, I did not see a penalty assigned in Webmaster tools.
Do you think that going back to westvalleyflooring.com would be a good call?
floorscalgary.com temporarily ranked on page #2 or #3 and has now fallen back.
This account has been a big challenge. -
Very likely you are just redirecting the penalty to the new domain. This article recently written by Marie Haynes may help.
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