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Hi,

My website was one of many that dropped in rankings this last Friday, The company that i outsourced my SEO 4 months ago did a bad job. Now  i'm doing everything my self to recover, so i was thinking getting a new hosting, duplicate the website with a same content (i have original quality content) and 301 my old domain to new one? How long can it last with Google? Can penalties be passed via 301 redirects ?

Looking forward to your help.

Yeah i wont probably do any better or it will take a long time which i cant afford, so might as well 301 it to new domain and see what happens.

Thanks

Hi,

My website was hit by Google's new update like never before, first my ranking dropped back in May when Google rolled out with their second Penguin update, back then i was outsourcing my SEO since most of the time i was working on optimizing my local maps. As soon as noticed my traffic dropped i start doing SEO my self, I removed over optimized keywords on website ( title, meta description) then i analyzed my link profile and found that i had a lot of commercial anchor text linking from spammy websites, mostly blog comments.

Its been over 4 months since I used Google's disavow tools in hoping that will help me get my raking back, but i still see these spammy links in my profile, 90% of them are nofollow anyways , so i'm not sure if disavow tool helped me at all.

With this Penguin 2.1 update my website ended up on page 4-10 for 90% of my keywords http://screencast.com/t/3bcw8LUxpj

Im not sure what would be the best way out this, should i buy a new domain and start fresh?Please let me know if you want to take a look on my link profile and give your opinion.

Looking forward to your help!

Hi,

Im working on brand new website i didn't even start my link building yet, just added to local directories

i slowly started getting my ranking on 3rd page of Google then few weeks ago my ranking fell for all the keywords so now the website doesn't even rank on 10th page. Its been like this for a few weeks now.

Here's the website

Screenshot http://screencast.com/t/wDWk8sxLw

Thanks for your help

I've seen this video before, my website was effected by Penguin 2.0 (not manual penalty) while Google says nofollow links won't hurt but it seems otherwise.

It was a penguin penalty

Thanks Keri,

Most of my links that i disavowed are blog comments and they are all nofollow links

so do nofollow links hurt my website?

Thanks

Most of the links that i submitted are nofollow links so maybe thats the case since Google

ignores them from I've read.

Hello,

I disavowed some of my links about three months but still see them in my link profile, using OSE?

How long does it take for Google to make them nofollow.

Thanks