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I have logged in and was asked to change passwords... but, no - I wasn't very active with it.

However, if they took it because of inactivity - why did they give me a replacement username?

My twitter user name australia was changed by twitter to Australia1_

My original user name has been given to Toursim Australia.

I never saw any correspondence about this from Twitter (I may have deleted it), nor from Tourism Australia.

I have managed to send 2 related support requests to twitter;

Once explaining I couldn't log in - and their reply was;

"The email address you're writing from does not match the email on this account. For privacy reasons, we can't offer any more information about the email."

Second time that my account was suspended - they replied;

"If you're writing in about Australia1_ being suspended, this account is not currently suspended"

I don't believe this can be a trademark issue because you cannot trademark a place name.

I would love an explanation from twitter-

Any tips?

Thanks for the quick reply's... I can see that it's probably not a long term solution, but as mentioned I was surprised how well it's working now.

And because of this, I worry newsite.com will continue to buy and re-direct sites every few months (weeks / years) or however long the results last.

Hi

First, to be upfront - these are not my websites, I'm asking because they are trying to compete in my niche.

Here's the details, then the questions...

There is a website that is a few months old with about 200 indexed pages and about 20 links, call this newsite.com

There is a website that is a few years old with over 10,000 indexed pages and over 20,000 links, call this oldsite.com

newsite.com acquired oldsite.com and set a 301 redirect so every page of oldsite.com is re-directed to the front page of newsite.com

newsite.com & oldsite.com are on the same topic, the 301 occurred in the past week.

Now, oldsite.com is out of the SERPs and newsite.com is pretty much ranking in the same spot (top 10) for the main term.

Here are my questions;

1. The 10,000 pages on oldsite.com had plenty of internal links - they no longer exists, so I imagine when the dust settles - it will be like oldsite.com is a one page site that re-diretcts to newsite.com ... How long will a ranking boost last for?

2. With the re-direct setup to completely forget about the structure and content of oldsite.com, it's clear to me that it was setup to pass the 'Link Juice' from oldsite.com to newsite.com ... Do the major SE's see this as a form of SPAM (manipulating the rankings), or do they see it as a good way to combine two or more websites?

3. Does this work? Is everybody doing it? Should I be doing it? ... or are there better ways for me to combat this type of competition (eg we could make a lot of great content for the money spent buying oldsite.com - but we certainly wouldn't get such an immediate increase to traffic)?