I had a really nice 100 page ecommerce website on a premium "exact match domain". The website had healthy rankings within Google and was receiving about 150 Google Search referrals a day. The website and domain had no penalties or ranking issues. I sold the premium "exact match domain" and kept the website, however, I wasn't able to properly set up a domain name change 301 redirect since I no longer have access to the old name. I already re-launched the exact same website on a new and similar domain. Do you think Google's algorithm will eventually be able to sort this domain name change out, or will my website + new domain get hit with duplicate content penalties and likely never properly rank in Google Search? As things stand Google has already de-indexed 90% of the content on the original domain (the new domain owner launched his own totally different website) and indexed 100% of the content on my new domain. When I Google search "MyNewDomainName.com" it shows up as #1 in Google. Also, when I Google search my "exact home page meta title" it also shows my new domain as #1. However, after 8 days live on the new domain my website has received 0 referrals from Google. Any advice or feedback would be greatly appreciated.
8 days is not anywhere close to enough time to rank for any keywords that would bring you a decent amount of traffic. You will quickly rank for your domain name, sure. That's typical behavior. You may also quickly rank for the title of your home page, but this just means that your home page title is a long-tail phrase that no one is searching for. I doubt you will get hit with a dupe penalty if 90% of the old content is truly deindexed and you've ensured it is in no way possible for the new domain owner to have had access to your old content, but you are not going to receive any traffic till you start ranking for better keywords which could take months, not 8 days.
Wait, so you sold the domain name and thus aren't able to do a 301 redirect and you are asking if Google will somehow figure out that you have a new domain name and that your domain was sold? Am I getting that right? If so no, Google will never know that you sold the domain name and that you now have a new site setup on a different domain. That's just not how it works. That's the point of the 301 redirect. You sold the domain name so you now are starting over from square one. Good luck!
I'm not asking if Google would specifically figure out that I sold a domain, that's absurd. I understand the point of a 301 redirect, otherwise I wouldn't have asked the question in the first place. If you want to be a smart-ass then go find another thread to troll. The simplified version of my question is has anyone changed domains without any form of a redirect (the option isn't available), had all of their previous website content 100% de-indexed (from the old domain) and then recovered from that eventually. Technically, my new domain and website feature 100% unique content, albeit it being previously hosted on another domain. Just wondering if eventually I'll start getting Google referrals again. One way or another I'll find out eventually just by waiting to see, however, I'm curious if anyone else has had a similar experience.
Appreciate the feedback. I would imagine that after a few months the referrals will eventually start to find their way back. However, I may be wrong. Time will tell.