How to reset a site – don't know what else to do

  • koltinham

    (@koltinham)


    9 years, 2 months ago

    So, I started my website http://www.policetrainingacademy.com as an experiment and to learn a little about how everything works. I haven’t had any experience with anything like this so I have learned a lot along the way. About 3 weeks ago, I changed the URL’s of most of my posts and it has had a horrible affect. None of my posts are appearing in search engines, such as yahoo or google, even though they are indeed indexed by these search engines. There are redirects from the old post URL’s to the new ones, so that shouldn’t be the problem. I have tried everything to fix this and have no idea what the problem could be. I am at the point now where I would just like to start the site over. Would it be possible to backup the posts and pages somehow and completely restart the site? Would google and yahoo still have the old site indexed if I restarted it and would that have an effect? I’m new to all of this so I’m not sure what to do. I was getting probably about 20-30 views per day from search engine results within my first month of starting the site, but after I changed the URL’s I haven’t gotten a single view from search engines. I feel as though 3 weeks is more that a sufficient amount of time to wait to start seeing some traffic and I am getting nothing. If anyone could help me I would greatly appreciate it.

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    9 years, 2 months ago

    The old post URLs will be issuing permanent redirects, which means search engines will eventually adjust their index. However, if you keep changing things, that means it will take the engines even longer to adapt.

    If you’re happy with what the URLs are now, it would be better to just leave it as is. I wouldn’t recommend going back to the old URLs, as the search engines might be half-way through adapting, so you’ll just repeat the same problem in the other direction.

    Are you signed up for Google’s Webmaster Tools? https://www.google.com/webmasters/ you can use that to monitor your site’s progress.

    Remember, search engines aren’t instant, it can take a few weeks for them to find new things and adapt to changed things. A count in 2014 listed over 750 Million websites, of which 500 are frequently updated, and search engines are responsible for indexing all of them.

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