When The Client Says Goodbye - What To Do With Their Rankings?

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Good day members of WebProWorld.com. Today's scenario is a little un-usual, one of our beloved clients of whom worked with us during an A - B SEO test has decided to continue with site B, which was the original site in the first place.

The issue today is that site A, which is the one I worked on simply rocked in the search results, but of course in the time alloted I wasn't able to completely knock site B out of it's number 1 spot in the search results - for various reasons in which I attribute to trust, long-standing, strong back-links and so forth - although strangely enough I took out a slew of other sites - bumped them down a bit - but none of this is the real point.

The point is, now that site A will be taken down, so will exactly 19 blog posts - SEO and semantically optimized blog posts.

What the most optimal approach here?

I don't want to necessarily redirect all requests to site B and I don't want to lose all those posts either. I've downloaded them and want to use them for clients that are lacking in the search results.

Or if I do indeed redirect all requests to site B, will the articles at site A become useless? Are they useless already? I asked the last questions because they're mostly targeting a particular geographic location - if I reuse them on another client I'll definitely have to change a few things including the location.

As it stands, site A has strong rankings and is just under site B in many search results. If I use the articles somewhere else and do complete redirects to site B from site A will my articles become obsolete if placed on another site?

There's a number of questions here but I thank you all for your input!

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Update: this isn't necessarily related but just a quick check ago, I found I bumped site B out of the top spot and into the 4th while site A is taking the reigns.



I think I'm going to completely remove site A from Google's index through the remove URL tool in Webmaster Tools and reuse the 19 articles elsewhere...at the moment that seems like the most useful thing to do, unless anyone can prove otherwise...

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Could it be as simple as moving the site to a different namespace while preserving the URL (domain)? If so, nothing would be lost.

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Well everything (content) needs to be lost...the site needn't show up in the search results anymore...

It's OK, I've pretty much did everything needed to remove the site from WMTs and shut it down...bye bye...

The article have been saved and still put to good use...