In a webmaster hangout on Google+ this morning, Google’s John Mueller basically said there is no good way to redirect a web site that has a penalty to a new web site without a penalty and not risk the new web site being penalized.

The question came up at the 7:02 mark where a webmaster asked:

John responded:

He later explained:

So cloak? 🙂

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