: Moving to new domain One my site has been hit by Penguin penalty. Without waiting for next Penguin release I want to move my site to another domain. Using 301 for pages could pass the penalty

@Gloria169

click on a nofollow link for the moved page


Google will crawl it 100%. It is long known fact.


use Javascript to set the link target instead of using href in


Google is actively teaching to crawl javascript right now. You may use Jquery and AJAX constructions to block googlebot from following it. Just google it.


use a form submit button to be clicked to go the "moved" page


Googlebot is able to submit forms.

My primary piece of advice (preferred) is to remove the penalty. Just disavowing will not help. You should try hard to delete every bad link manually by contacting webmasters of your link donors. If webmaster does not reply after a few attempts, then you should disavow the link with a comment about not replying. And the same for every link. It is really hard and boring, but it will help. Also you should look critically on your backlinks and delete all, which raise the smallest suspicion on spam. It should help.

If you don't want to do that, you may use my second piece of advice: Jquery+AJAX. It will 100% block googlebot from crawling it.

The third way is to use cloacking to redirect only users and not googlebot to your new site, but it may lead to forever ban in Google.

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