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LOL, So I just have to buy a keyword domain and add it to Google places then I'll be ranking over 2000 competing companies in Google places? Wow

While I'm sure those are all factors I do not believe for 1 second that it's as simple as that, but thank you for your reply.

I would test your theory but I'm pretty certain what you've said is not going to rank me number 2.

When I do a search for this site it ranks number 2 on Google just below the official federation of master builders website for the keyword phase "builders in london"

this is the site http://bit.ly/Lypo8E which is a nasty looking blog which has nothing to do with builders and they don't even have an address anywhere on the site.

The only thing I can see is that they are sharing there address with a lot of other businesses and all of the citations from those other businesses are causing them to rank higher on Google places, but surely Google can't be that stupid right?

Hi Todd,

Thanks for confirming the redirect will not solve the issue.

I received an unnatural link warning on March 22nd, and the penalty came into effect 2 weeks later even after removing the links.

My blog which is on a different sub domain has had a dramatic increase in SE traffic and I'm now thinking to start fresh on a new site and redirect the blog only.

Last month my rankings dropped a couple of pages on Google and am no longer receiving as many visits from Google as I used to. It's coming up to summer which is the time my business naturally picks up yet I can't fix this problem.

I have a crazy idea of redirecting my established site onto a new domain in hopes that the penalty would be removed.

I have tried removing any manipulative links yet my ranking are not coming back.

Anyone had success in redirecting to a new domain?