Yes, that's correct Kurt. We want to disassociate our brand from those pages. Thanks for your FB!
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RE: Removing/ Redirecting bad URL's from main domainposted in White Hat / Black Hat SEO
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RE: Removing/ Redirecting bad URL's from main domainposted in White Hat / Black Hat SEO
Yes, very helpful... Thanks!
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Removing/ Redirecting bad URL's from main domainposted in White Hat / Black Hat SEO
Our users create content for which we host on a seperate URL for a web version. Originally this was hosted on our main domain.
This was causing problems because Google was seeing all these different types of content on our main domain. The page content was all over the place and (we think) may have harmed our main domain reputation.
About a month ago, we added a robots.txt to block those URL's in that particular folder, so that Google doesn't crawl those pages and ignores it in the SERP.
We now went a step further and are now redirecting (301 redirect) all those user created URL's to a totally brand new domain (not affiliated with our brand or main domain).
This should have been done from the beginning, but it wasn't.
Any suggestions on how can we remove all those original URL's and make Google see them as not affiliated with main domain?? or should we just give it the good ol' time recipe for it to fix itself??