Can we use our existing site content on new site?
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We added 1000s of pages unique content on our site and soon after google release penguin and we loose our ranking for major keywords and after months of efforts we decided to start a new site.
If we use all the existing site content on new domain does google going to penalized the site for duplicate content or it will be treated as unique?
Thanks
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If both site has the content up then yes it will be duplicate content and Google doesn't like it.
Changing sites and moving content to another site might not work too well due to the fact that you will have no backlinks to those articles. Thus they will not rank as well anymore if they were ranking well with the other site.
It makes sense in a way, someone can't just create a new site and copy content from another site and have it ranked equally or even on the same page as the original content.
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don't just abandon the old/existing site without looking into the reasons you got penalized or you'll just create a new site with no PR and no Google trust that will be doomed to suffer the same fate.
Send the URL and I can take a quick look at your site if you like and give you some insight.
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oh, also regarding duplicate content, if you use the content from your old site for the new site and remove/deindex the old site there is no duplicate content issue because the content is not living on two sites. it's unique
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waiting for your feedback!
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Looking at your external links using the SEOMoz Open Site Explorer tool, someone clearly had paid for links to your site. Many of your links have the words Dubai Hotel as the link text and it's obvious to me that these are unnatural links. You need to get rid of the paid links.
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You are right I think my seo guy purchased some links. Do you think changing anchor text for those incoming links can help us?
If no and we are unable to contact the webmaster of the sites for link removal what are the other ways?
Thanks