301 from penalized domain to new domain
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I have a client whose site isn't necessarily penalized since they still show for many terms in the SERPS, however at one point they did an xrummer blast of 13,000 links for two anchor texts they were trying to rank for. They have purchased a new domain and have gone white hat and want to 301 some of the old site to the new purely for the users sake so past visitors still find them at t the new location. Will creating 301 redirects pass on to the new domain any bad Karma from the old one in Google's eyes? Thanks for the help.
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If I thought that there was any penalty or bad odor on the old site I would not risk it. However I would reuse content and try to get the URLs changed on existing valuable links. Just an opinion.
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