How long after a redirect should we see results?
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In mid September we had to so some redirects from old URL's to new URL's. We haven't seen a significant jump in traffic so we are wondering how long this might take before we see a change. We are the brand so we should be getting some sort of authority from Google, yes?
Any tips that can be offered would be grateful as we are stumped.
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Thanks Gerd.
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If your site structure has changed, I would resubmit your sitemaps to so that Google is at least aware of content changes.
You should be able to notice a change in traffic behaviour in GA for the new content pages. If not, I would look at where inbound traffic is going.
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Thanks...PM sent your way.
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There's several factors that come into play for how long it takes the search engines to discover redirects and replace the old pages with the new URLs in the search results, and in this case, I would need to hear more details before I could give a definite answer. Can you give some examples of which URLs you redirected? And may I ask why do you assume that you should see a significant jump in traffic as a result of these redirects? If you don't want to reveal this information publicly, feel free to PM me and I'd be happy to take a look.
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