H, I have had this domain for sometime but I think when it was parked while waiting for me to develop it then Google de-indexed it. So I built a blog on the domain, added some content and made it look pretty good with a couple of original articles and a couple from free content services. I got a few back links organically, submitted a site map and made the site look pretty good I thought. I then submitted it to Google and they checked it but never re-indexed it. That was very frustrating as I spent over a week on it. So I decided to just buy a new domain for this website that I have spent a lot of time on and it's probably a better domain anyway. I'm planning to move all content to this domain but I will wait for it to get indexed first and from my experience new domains get in only after a few days. I will be added more unique content to the site as well and general improvements. So my question is, will it be safe to 301 the old de-indexed domain to the new indexed domain? If I do I hope Google doesn't then also de-index the new domain as well. I want to be able to redirect the old domain as it has some traffic from links.
No It will not deindexed. If you want to index your first domain.. then write 10 original posts .. atleast200+ words and submit sitemap to google webmaster.. then bookmark you all post.. ping your website.. Finally your website will get indexed.
i dont think that would get you any positive effect. you can have a website on that domain and put few links there.
@movepicker: You have 3 options: 1. use rel=canonical 2. redirect via htacces or 3. redirect via php.
I don't suggest you to redirect the old de-indexed domain to the new domain at all. By doing it, you are saying Google that this new domain is that old domain and as the old domain is de-indexed by Google, your new domain can not get high ranking on search engine results. Leave that old domain and start your new website on the new domain without redirecting old one to new one.
Hi, thanks for the replies but they are all saying different things and it is understandable as it's a tricky situation. I think nasul has raised some good points and I might be better to be careful rather than take a gamble. So what I think I will do is import the old site content into the new domain when it is indexed. I will then still keep the old site up but will delete all the old posts etc to avoid duplicates and add a few new articles etc and see if it does get indexed in the future but I won't hold my breath or spend anymore time on it. I can also edit most of the inbound links to use the new domain so that should take care of that. I think this is better than 301 the old de-indexed domain to the new one as it could then get that dropped too. It might not but I don't want to risk it since there seems to be conflicting views on this without anyone knowing exactly what would happen, it's all based on "Maybe".
now a days it become somewhat very difficult to figure out when actually Google has indexed your website. google might have already indexed your old domain. but its not showing to you. Regarding your question, there is contradiction between the employees of Google regarding Penalized Domain(The quotes have been taken from SERoundtable): Google's Matt Cutts said: VS JohnMu from Google said: This is the reason why you are getting different answers for your question.
that interesting leon, I guess if Matt Coutts thinks a new domain is a better then it must mean something. I'm not familair with the other employee but it makes sense I guess. I have registered new domains in the past that never got indexed so I guess I should have done that with them as they must of had bad history.
you should move content 1st then you can redirect domain URL with same post, that way the subscribers get the same information and your domain can easily move..