Re-using Content From a Previous Website - Risky?
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Over the years, I've gathered thousands of user reviews on a website I am shutting down although I would like to keep them for another website.
I removed the reviews from the old website, set the reviews pages to "noindex" and removed the pages from Google's index using the Webmaster Tools.
At this point the reviews are not showing up in Google's search results anymore. Would there be any concerns about posting these reviews on a new website? Can it get penalized for duplicate content?
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I don't want to link or redirect from the old website to avoid passing penalties.
Thank you for your answers!
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As long as you have done all the step you said you should be fine. A last tactic you could add is 301'ing the old domain to the new domain so you can reclaim any links or mentions as well.
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Should be fine!
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