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So we are performing link removal for a client on his old website (A), which is being 301 redirected to his new website (B).  We have identified toxic links on site A and are removing, once complete we will undo the current 301, confirm a new GWT account for website A, and then submit the disavow report.

We would then like to reapply the 301 redirect to site B while we are waiting for Google to process the disavow report, the logic being we can retain some current rankings on site B while waiting for the disavow to process on site A.

Has anyone had experience with this method?  I foresee some potential issues here but am interested to here from others on this.  Thanks!

Hi SamuEU,

In general it is not good to have your home page be redirecting anywhere else on your website, often times spammy websites use re-directs to take users to a different page they may be hiding from search bots.  I would suggest creating the new keyword-relevant URL, but also creating an entirely new keyword-relevant page to gain traffic directly from the search-engines, then link to it in a way that makes sense from your home page.  This is a more natural way to use a keyword-relevant URL to gain search traffic.

Good Luck!