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Discussion in 'Google' started by avezoom, Feb 25, 2011.

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    I like to experiment and change things often. And for the 3th time in a few months I will be completely changing my website. That means the third time all pages will result in 404.

    I don't really care about serps (that website don't receive a lot of visitors anyway) but I'm concerned about some kind of permanent penalty.

    It would be stupid to penalize for something like that (after all things happen, website/owners change) Google shouldn't give any permanent ban for that, but with them you just never know... :rolleyes:

    So what do you think? Any evidence of long-lasting effect of changes like that.
     
    avezoom, Feb 25, 2011 IP
  2. johneva

    johneva Well-Known Member

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    Na I carnt see them ever banning you for it, as you say SERPs and site traffic will be effected but you can always put redirects in place and make a custom 404 page with site search funtion/sitemap or navigations system in to help your visitors.
     
    johneva, Feb 25, 2011 IP
  3. bhavatmaj

    bhavatmaj Well-Known Member

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    there are No penalties for this
     
    bhavatmaj, Feb 25, 2011 IP
  4. Mightee

    Mightee Well-Known Member

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    there are no penalities but websites with errors are often ranked lower ;)
     
    Mightee, Feb 25, 2011 IP
  5. DoDo Me

    DoDo Me Peon

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    It won't for page that does not have backlink from own site, even 404, will not do harm.
     
    DoDo Me, Feb 25, 2011 IP
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    webcosmo Notable Member

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    i dont think there is any long lasting effect for it.

    its just matter of indexing and deindexing.
     
    webcosmo, Feb 25, 2011 IP
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    WishBone Peon

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    I encountered before, just when I changed my blogs (blogspot) title, I suddenly lost 90% of organic traffic maybe due to possible duplicate that Google algorithm considered having the same content but with different title for a single blog but I'm sure Google already overcome this kind of problem. I just give few more updates and strong backlinks and a month later, everything slowly returning back to normal..
     
    WishBone, Feb 27, 2011 IP
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    It's no effect for it.
     
    garbin, Feb 27, 2011 IP