Jaykishan Panchal, Content Marketing Manager

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Backlinks to your old domain that you now redirect to your new one can also trigger a manual action for unnatural links.

at E2M Solutions Inc. , dealt with this kind of problem when he tried to lift a customer's penalty.

One of our clients noticed a drastic drop in traffic on one of his websites. While analyzing it, he found out that Panda and Penguin had hit it, bringing his targeted keywords from the top 3 to the third and fourth pages.

He moved to a new site and redirected his traffic to get things going. But that wasn't enough. After six months, he was again in trouble with a manual penalty for unnatural links.

While scanning the issue, our team found that his old site was affected by multiple pages that amazon database were sending sitewide, exact-match anchor text links.

And because the traffic was redirected, those links also hurt his new site.

It took a lot of cleanup for both the old and new domain, and two reconsideration requests, before the penalty was finally lifted and the client's traffic was back.
Jaykishan recommends checking if there is more than one type of penalty applied to your site, especially when redirecting from an old domain is involved.