: SEO: Moving articles from one domain to another Currently I have articles up on a website (site A) that is not mine (but I can remove the articles.) The article's aren't faring well (not only

@Lengel546

This might not be a solution that you like, but one option would be to spin the articles so that they don't count as duplicate content but say the same thing. If you can change 70 - 80% of the wording you should be fine and change the structure a bit (add paragraph break or something like that)

Then you can post the new version on your site and then include a link on the old version to the new site. This would jumpstart your backlinks to the new site. It wouldn't give you any link juice that the old articles have, but if they are not doing well anyway, that may not matter. If you can't redirect, this is an SEO friendly option.

Also, another thing to keep in mind is that if you are going to be adding more content to the new site quickly, having a couple duplicate articles shouldn't hurt. If there are only a few articles to start with and you will be adding a lot more, Google should see the new content as over powering the old. But this might not be your situation.

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@Gretchen104

You say you cannot do redirects. A 301 redirect in the domain company would be the best, (so, having the domain apart from the hosting would have been best here) as you would pass the seo juice to the new location. You say you can't do that, so I guess the old hosting holds the domain too.

If you can "remove" them, but have no access to site A, can you set up on each article title entry (seems that at least you have control over a toc, or summary of articles? (because you can remove them somehow)) a php redirect or something ? So it does not give a 404, but redirects to each new location. (so, no harm done in seo)

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