Duplicate Content

I had my site banned on Google for the use of a link manager that they consider a link farm.

I have come to the conclusion that my site will never be re-indexed and I am faced with launching a new URL specifically for Google.

The site that was banned on Google has top ranking on Yahoo & MSN, along with the bulk of the other major search engines. So I do not want to drop this URL, only add a new one for Google.

My question;

How much content on the old site needs to be changed on the new URL so that it will not be penalized for duplicate content when it is indexed by Yahoo for example.

I have close to 1400 pages, can I assume that only the index page will need to be changed?



Thanks,

Jack
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I would mix it all up. As much as you can bear to do. Give it a new look and feel with different content. Your efforts may reward you with a site that shows in Google and a second site that shows in Yahoo and MSN.

 

Yeah I wouldnt change the content on your sites unless you are going to do it properly.

No point doing a half baked job on 1400 pages.

Then you could get done again for duplicate content and that would really annoy you. And waste your time.

Brad

 

it could be reindexed by google after 6 months

 

Which link manager did you use?

 

how do you know your site was banned from google ? any tool ?

 

Search google for your URL. If there are no results then you might be banned.

 

You can block other robots from yah/msn, etc from indexing the new site and block google from the old one.

 

jcfinc, did you ever consider contacting google with a reinclusion request?

If you set up a new site it may take a year before you get any decent results in Google because of their apparrent 'aging filter'(depends on the competition for your phrases).

 

This is a good idea, but block them by IP and user agent in case they start using new IP's. You could also use robots.txt but my experience has been that denial with robots.txt is spotty and the pages end up in the cache or Supplemental listings anyway risking a dup penalty.

 

"Might" ?

 

Gazelle is not 100% sure about it

 

Might be banned or might just not be indexed yet. Now if your site was indexed and now it isn't showing when you do that search then you have been banned. Does that help clear it up?

 

I was just emphasing the "might be banned" you said earlier.

If a website WAS indexed, and when you search www.domain.com in Google, and it doesn't show up, it IS banned, and not "MIGHT be banned".

 

Absolutely. I don't there there is any chanse to think "might/might not" in this case.

 

I said might because duclelo never said if the site was ever indexed in google.

 

What link manager software were you using? I was thinking about getting one for my new site.

 

I am using an access database and excel spreadsheets to track all the directories I submit to and those who have givin me a link. The old fasion way, it still works for me.

 

I also have manual record of most the directories I submit to but, keeping records manually is a very hard and old fasion.

It is a nice way to do it, especially if you have enough time to manage everything

 

A site that is banned by google, and one that is not indexed appear two different ways.

A site not indexed by google, will appear like this.

However a site that is banned will return this message.

P.S. I think this thread is better suited in google cat.