Penguin 301 Re-Direct

[brightonseorob]

Hi

I already know the answer to this but wanted some backup. A friend of mine has asked me to take a look at his site. He was using an SEO company that saw him get hit hard by Penguin.

He did the right thing and started all over with a new domain name. I've just noticed that the old domain name is actually setup to 301 to the new domain. This has to be a bad thing right?

[AlanMosley]

If he has bad links yes, a 301 now means that the bad links now link to the new site.

But why did he get hit by penguin? was it really links?

if so, i would do nothing and wait till gooogle brings out its disavow links feature to WMT and then just disavow them.

[MoosaHemani]

301 simply means that link juice will transfer from old domain to the new one so if it was really penguin and the website get hit really because of links then yes it is bad or else the negative impact of links will transfer on the new domain...

I agree with the Alan’s Idea of disavow links but it will take a lot of time... so why not invest some time on link removing?

[brightonseorob]

Good point Alan. I now have access to WMT and while I wouldn't want any of my sites to have links from the sites they are getting links from, there are no warnings or messages from Google. There on-site SEO seems alright, shouldn't have been anything there that caused them an issue.