Google To Webmaster: Start Over & Make A New Web Site

Jun 24, 2019 - 8:18 am 7 by

Google Seo Demolition

Every now and then you hear advice from Google to a webmaster where they simply give them the hard news that they need to start over. Google's John Mueller did that on Sunday when he told one webmaster that he needs to start over.

He posted on Twitter "To be honest, I think the best approach would be to make a new site from the ground up, making something unique, compelling, and high-quality of your own." He has given this type of advice numerous times before but you don't see him dishing out this advice all that often.

Here are the tweets so you can look at the details for yourself:

What do you think? Is it salvageable?

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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