I bought a domain that had many past DMCA violations. Is there anything I...

bash_bob

I bought a domain that seemed great for an existing project of mine. After carefully redirecting the site to the new domain, I noticed that the organic search results (which were previously quite good) were basically eliminated. I assumed the SEO hit was transitional and would recover, but over a year later there are still effectively no search results. After some investigation, I learned that the domain had previously been used for piracy and...

Originally asked by bryanbraun on Stack Exchange (webmasters) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

After digging into this, I wanted to report back with some ideas that seem promising: Make sure you've set up Google Search Console at both the old domain and the new domain. This gives you a clearer picture into what Google sees for both domains, and allows you to... ...use the Change of Address tool . This explicitly tells google that your site is moving, instead of just relying on redirects. Check for "Manual Actions" in Google Search Console > Security and Manual Actions > Manual Actions . See more details about manual actions here . Look for "Security Issues" reported in Google Search Console > Security and Manual Actions > Security Issues . I found a security issue posted on my old...

Full answer by bryanbraun: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/145283 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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