Doing a Redirect Where You Don't Want Linkjuice to Flow

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I have a friend who bought a fiverr gig and built a ton of shitty links to his site. I want to move him to a new domain but redirect the old domain to the new one without passing on any linkjuice. So that means a 301 redirect is out of the question, and I'm not sure if the 302 redirect is a good idea.

I was also thinking of just sending visitors to the .com to a page where it says the website has moved, and to click on the new link below(which will be nofollowed obviously).
 
Did he send the links to the homepage? If not, then you can 301 every page BUT the one he targeted. If he did a carpet-bomb across the site, then 301's are out of the question, since you want to deflect the juice.

I would use your 2nd idea. Just replace the .com with a one-pager that says "Hey, we've moved, find us here!" with a no-follow. But I'd make sure to redirect all of the inner pages to the homepage so you're not losing traffic before sending them over.

Then again, if you have a list of the backlinks created, you could just drop them in the disavow tool. They'll turn no-follow and should be safe after that.
 
Thanks a ton. I just did my second idea and just used one of those "coming soon" plugins. Pretty simple.
 
Just my 2c regarding fiverr spam. I think not many fiverr gigs are soo shit that will cause any problems. In most cases they won't do nothing, good or bad (unless website is fresh). I have tested it with GSA on an matured site of mine. I have sent around 1000 links in one day directly to homepage, and then few more thousands for T2s and T3s. All as crappy as one can possibly get, and indexed fast. No dent in rankings at all. But it was for Google.com.au. After few days site moved up in serps. The site is still there ranking somehow ok and jumping between TOP10 and TOP20 for few KWs (no SEO has been done since then). Before I did that however there were already a few strong high PR backlinks in place. What do you think about this? I'm not saying that using Fiverr "SEO packages" is a way to go, no it isn't. But if used properly they can be a cheap way to get more juice coming in.

Also, and shame on me for this but I have tried neg SEO on a client's competitor site. Again GSA, a shit list bought from BHW (or other place, can't remember now) that was already spammed to death. I have sent around 10K backlinks to homepage (with exact KW anchor) and to my surprise, the site have moved up in SREPs and stayed there for long. Before my blast that website had around 800 backlinks plus some strong 301s from PR4 and PR5. In general it had a good backlink profile. Today just out of curiosity I had a look at this guy website and he is still out there in the TOP5. Maybe they just disavowed those links, I don't know but overall it didn't make a change. So my point is that probably all those fiverr gigs just don't work as many believe they are. To make a noticable damage much more links is necessary. Sure, not every niche is equal and not every website is equal. Surely blasting fresh site with those kind of shit links won't help it. On the other hand, using links like that with proper velocity, anchors and content and pointed even at T1 is working (assuming T1s list is good).

Guest posts from relevant sites in the niche and then using right combination of fiverr gigs is a way to go in that case. Usually, fiverr providers are ok with some changes to their service also. So it can be a cost effective way to go if someone knows what he is doing.

Of course, this kind of tactics can't be the only tactics one is using. Getting right backlinks from relevant sites, forums, comments etc. is a must. On the other hand Social Media signals etc. is vastly overrated.
 
In my eyes, it can certainly cause damage. And yes, it can certainly ensure high rankings. It depends also what kind of domain you use and the niche where it is in ect. ect.
 
Yes I agree 100%. The domain targeted itself is very important factor (age and all of that...). But I think even more important is quality of T1s and current rankings they got. Spamming T1s is a no no of course unless... we have next ones ready in line to take over. And this is where real game begins with G. At least this is what I see here and there...
 
Google hates it that you can still rank with spam links, that is why they are trying to terrify everyone into disavowing links. Sure they'll penalize you when they can/when they realize what is happening but a lot of times, especially with an already strong site a bit of spam will actually help the ranking. Ahh good 'ol blackhat still very much alive and banking :wink:

Google likes to use fear to try and control the SERPs.
 
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