Interesting Observation of some rankingsc
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Had a potential client contact me the other day about his site being penalized by the big panda. A few days later he tells me that his current SEO copied his site over to a new domain name via 301 redirect.
Its been a week and he's ranking for search terms as though nothing has happened. He was not ranking anywhere near page 1 (with his old domain name) before this redirect.
Im curious if anyone has experienced the same anomaly. Surely he will drop once the next ranking update comes.... right?
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Looks like they are still ranking. This is a very odd tactic. Waiting on any input .
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Nobody has any input aye?
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