Content Transfer for Penguin Induced Domain Switch

[phogan]

One of my customers has a mature site that performs very well in ranking and traffic for major keywords, prosun.com.   A few years ago we started welproma.com because they were changing their name and branding.  We built up welproma.com as an eventual replacement and ramped up to 30% of the Prosun.com traffic.   Penguin hit a bit in 2012 but very bad May 24, 2013 and it keeps getting worse.

Now they are backing out of the name change, reverting back to prosun.com as the main website. Unfortunately the Welproma.com content is far better in quantity and quality so we would prefer not to waste it.   Does anyone think it is a problem to take essentially the exact content from the newer, penalized site and move it to the older well performing site.  We will use no links whatsoever between the two sites and take down the new one once we switch.

[SharewarePros]

Hello Patrick,

NEVER reuse content from one site on other site and in your particular case take care about a few things.

1. NO content sharing between your sites.

2. REMOVE any link between them.

3. MOVE the penalized site to another IP very different to the your prosun.com.

4. Finally abandon the welproma.com if you can.

Hope it helps

Claudio