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301 redirecting a previously abused URL
The big question is how long ago did the URL change take place. I have had similar circumstances when gaining new clients who had been working with some less then ethical companies and we found that after ~6 months there is little SEO value unless there are still good, active links pointing to those locations. If there is still some good links pointing to the original location then you should regardless, but if not and it has been longer than 6 months I personally would not.
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Best Practice for Blocking a site from 1 countries search engines
Thanks for the response Gregory, at the moment I am testing setting up a duplicate site on the country specific domain which all local visitors to the .com are redirected too. That site then has the meta no index, follow tag with hreflang tags and content languages tags for the country implemented, with the default tags for other languages pointing to the .com version. Worth a shot I guess.
Technical SEO Issues | | Salience_Search_Marketing0