JesseQuinn

hey y'all

I have a question about moving a website to a new domain and the ramifications re: duplicate content. I've done a ton of reading about this but everything I read talks about 301 redirects, which I can't do because I sold the domain.

I know in moving the site without 301 redirects I lost links and will experience a drop in rankings temporarily and I'm cool with that. My only concern is about the 'duplicate content' issue with my new website. I moved all the content to a new domain but I haven't set it live yet for that reason. The old domain is currently deindexed (when I type site: old-domain.com it's not listed in google) and there doesn't appear to be a cache of the content on the old site, based on the 'cache checking' tools I've found online. I also did a change of address in GWT

Is it safe to put my content live on my new site without receiving a duplicate content penalty?

thanks in advance for any insight anyone can provide

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