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Thanks Cian,

It is an algorithmic penalty (likley primarily Panda). Significant recovery work has happened since over a year ago but we are not seeing any recoveries despite the recent Panda refreshes.

What I hear you saying is try to avoid any cross connections (including GA id etc) and start fresh and maybe repoint some valuable links?

The below chart shows what we believed on of our domains being caught in the Google sandbox for the last 6 months; the sites has built site has built significant, relevant, high quality backlinks and content and is outperforming the majority of sites ranked in the top 10.

The site was a reset project of a site caught in Panda however we tried to not use any 301 redirects or linkages between the site.

After 6 months without organic traffic I am leaning on the community for advice if this could still be legitimate Google sandboxing or if we should try to repoint our external links to a new domain and see if the site can gain rankings quicker?

From past project the Google sandbox issue has been resolved within 2 months.

Any advice welcome.

matIgqE

Looking for SEOs who have experience with resetting projects by migrating on to a new domain to shed either a manual or algorithmic penalty.

My questions are:

• For algorithmic penalties, what is the best migration strategy to avoid inheriting any kind of baggage? 301, 302, establish no connection between the two sites?
• For manual penalties, what is the best migration strategy to avoid inheriting any kind of baggage? 301, 302, establish no connection between the two sites?

Any other input on these kind of reset projects is appreciated.