I did not post since I moved to my new site.
Post 😉
Does your old WordPress domain forward to the new domain?
Hi Chris. Yes I did and paid 10 dollars for mapping. I am getting almost 10% of traffic of my old blog. I think I should notify wordpress team. Does it make a difference that my domain is .info ? does google like .info websites ?
Thanks
Well, over time, you might see changes because Google is going to see wordpress.com as a much more prestigious domain than your .info domain (or new .com domain).
But what WordPress is almost certainly doing is making 301 redirects to your new site, and what that says to Google is, “treat this as the same site.” So, in the short term–a few days, a few weeks? — you’d think that Google didn’t know about the new domain, so that was why I was wondering about that.
90% sure is dramatic. I am hoping that over time, it would bump up again. But this is really more of a question for an SEO forum…
It is very sad to see. I created my blog a little more than a year ago and I watched the traffic grow everyday and it kept me motivated. Now after purchasing my own blog. I go back to the old days.
My hosting trial ends in a couple of days and now I am unsure if I want to pay for this.
Suggestions are welcome.Thanks
Maybe you should go back. If it was working for you?
Heck, Seth Godin’s been running his extremely famous blog on the out-of-date TypePad hosting system for years.
it is very disappointing. I was ranking 1st in many tags and now I cannot find my website in the first 3 pages of google! Google spiders have forsaken my website.
and Chris, everyday it is just getting worse! I don’t see it recovering at all, at least for now.
I guess I will just go back. I just needed more freedom from wordpress.com
If you have not posted anything since you moved your site (according to your OP) — your logic is flawed. That can have a big impact on your traffic and Google rankings. Why would people visit your site if you have no new content? Try posting consistently for a while and see if that improves things.
If you don’t post anything new, you won’t get any traffic.
So as I said. Post. You’re not giving people a reason to come visit again.
