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Been looking for this for ages.

Thanks

Thanks mate.

I suppose given my new site hasn't even been indexed as yet I was more thinking how much penalty there could be...

I thought maybe I could redirect and then somehow let google know that the malware isn't present on the domain any more is all.

I'll leave it alone as it doesn't sound like its worth the risk.

Whilst I don't think the index.php will have a direct impact on the SEO of your website it could easily have an indirect impact.

As CleverPhD rightly points out it is a pain in the *** to remember and type that sort of URL.

Not only for yourself but also for other websites and customers.

The impact this has is hard to quantify... If I'm a site in your niche and want to link to you does this put me off? What if I link to the wrong site?

Beyond that ending in index isn't as nice a user experience as just ending at the page name and ultimately its my belief that if you do whats best for the user you'll get good results from google.

So google won't be smart enough to check the new site?

I would assume my page was penalized as it had that warning this site may contain malware message..

I had a website which got hacked and malware added to it.

I have since closed that website down but I still have the domain name.

That domain name prior to the malware was incredibly well ranking for its niche and had a good range of high quality links to it and a domain age of 6 years.

I'm now creating a new website which is similar to the old one (the same but with a different platform and layout).

Is it a  good or bad idea to redirect the old domain name to the new website?