Recovery from Penguin removing internal urls permanently replace with new

[cbielich]

Since I was hit with Penguin back in April, but with this last update Oct. 5th I did see a very slight recovery, I was thinking about dumping some of my old URL's which contain backlinks which I can't get removed that seem spammy. I was thinking of keeping the page intact but replace with an entirely new URL and NOT 301 redirect. So basically starting over with that URL that way the backlinks points to a dead url.

Any thoughts?

[MoosaHemani]

To be honest we all know that penguin is quite difficult to handle so maybe it can work but there are an equal chance that it is not going to work...

Well I like the idea of dumping some URLs that contain fishy links...and create entire new pages...but what if the penguin is on the domain level and not on the page level? I think in that way this tactic might not work...

[AdamThompson]

If those pages have mostly bad links pointing to them (i.e. you won't be losing any good links) I'd say go for it - it's worth a try and very well may help!

[MattJanaway]

Risky but could do the trick. You should analyse each page separately and see if any actually have good links going to them - if not then its worth a try (as long as there arent lots and lots of pages, doing them one or two at a time might work nicely).

The advantage here is that if there are good links coming to the page, it will be MUCH easier to get a legitimate website to change the URL of the link than it would be to get the bad links removed.

If there are bad links going to specific pages it might also be worth trying to block the bots from accessing the specific pages. Obviously if your homepage has lots of bad links then this could be a bigger issue...

[irvingw]

You are 100% correct. This is how you dump links! You must remove the page and let it 404.

Won't guarantee that you will recover if you did link building to your homepage though, which is why you should never point links to your homepage.

Good luck!