Lost all traffic

  • Irkitated

    (@irkitated)


    11 years, 11 months ago

    Hi,

    At the start of the month I moved my entire website http://www.irkitated.com from blogger to a brand new site in WordPress using the best practice guide on how to do this without losing traffic. This new site features much better SEO (I used a plugin to monitor this) and I have also improved the content substantially. As I made the move I took the opportunity to update a couple of post URLs that were a bit long.I have a 404 page which comes up should anybody go to an old link.

    I have submitted new sitemaps to Webmaster and used the Fetch tool to fetch and render the new site but regardless, after the move my stats went like this…
    Pre move – 500-1000 visitors per day (visitors not pageviews)
    1 June – 399
    2 June – 281
    3 June 48
    4 June 16
    My site now sits at around 10 visitors per day including a couple of days ago when I only had 2 visits. Considering that I was relying on organic search for a lot of my traffic, including some keywords where I was number 1 ranking, this is a worry.

    I have transferred the analytics code over to my new site and have installed the analytics plugin which is working as stats appear in my Dashboard.

    I am new to WordPress but by no means new to websites/seo/management as I consult in this field for my day job, but I have a fear that I’ve messed something up somewhere along the line?

    I have employed a redirect from my blogger page to the new site.

    I have ensured that SEO is good, URLs were transferred so that they are the same as on my old site, Sitemaps are correct, Robots text is correct (I hope), I have a 404 page.

    Does anybody have any ideas on how I can fix this or is it something which will fix itself over time?

    Thanks for any help… I’m stumped!

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    11 years, 11 months ago

    Did you have the old URL in Google Webmaster Tools? If so, did you mark it as moved?

    If you did mark it as moved to the new one, Google will switch all of the URLs to the new one in their index.

    Otherwise, it will take Google a while to notice. They will index the new site eventually, but they do have the entire internet to index after all.

    Keep at it with the new content, and your audience will build over time, bringing more traffic along with them.

    Thread Starter Irkitated

    (@irkitated)

    11 years, 11 months ago

    Thats the thing… I made sure that the URLs followed the same structure and i tested this when i transferred the site across.

    I guess ill just wait and see what happens and hope it figures out what has happened on its own!

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    11 years, 11 months ago

    It’ll happen eventually. Google can be a big source of stress if you let it.

    “Knowing that Google will get to things in its own time (and there’s nothing you can do about it) is the first path to online peace.” ~ not really a traditional saying 🙂

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