How does a 301 redirect from banned-in-Google site affect the destination site? For example, suppose that yourSite1.com is banned in Google, and you redirect traffic coming to the domain yourSite2.com. Is there going to be any negative effect on yourSite2.com?
I have wondered this. My friend lance, owner of beacon-directory.com was penalised (didnt rank for his own name, was out of the top 50 but not de-indexed) He 301'd the URL to beacon-directory.net About a week later, the new domain was being indexed and ranked #5 for its own name, which was expected for a new site. He then switched back to the old site and is planning to re-do it. Some of his directory inner pages were dead and that problem needed sorting. After a week of experimenting, during that time google did not penalise the new site. i guess its safe, but there are no long term guarentees.
Just did a search for 'Beacon Directory' and your friends site is #1 again. The main difference with the situation that I'm looking at is, yourSite1.com has been de-indexed. My assumption is that Google/Yahoo/MSN will pass the link authority to yourSite2.com from yourSite1.com and treat yourSite2.com as a new and separate domain in it's own right. I'm just not sure if my assumption will cause yourSite2.com to get banned also