Penguin Update or URL Error - Rankings Tank

[chronicle]

I just redid my site from Godaddy Quick Shopping Cart to Drupal.  The site is much cleaner now.  I transferred all the content.

Now my site dropped from being in the top ten on almost every key word we were targeting to 35+.

I "aliased" the urls so that they were the same as the Godaddy site.  However when I look at our search results I notice that our URLs have extra wording at the end like this: ?categoryid=1 or some other number.

Could this be the reason that our rankings tanked?  Previously on the godaddy site the results didnt show this.

[squareplug]

I'm going to "guess"  it's not the penguin but a url issue. I've moved around 20 sites to a different platform and it's never been a totally seamless transition as far as google is concerned (none of them Drupal however). Also check your sitemap. (the url that google thinks it is).  I think you may see a 404 error.

Not sure if this is relevant but you might check out this known issue:

Known Issues

• While Sub-pathauto works when drupal_get_normal_path() is called, if drupal_get_path_alias() is called, the hook to alter URLs is not invoked. Functionality that uses this function to compare things like page visibility settings will not match the sub-path processed URL. This is due to core bug #1248626: drupal_get_path_alias() does not invoke url alter hook while drupal_get_normal_path() does.

Good Luck . From one hyperfocuser to another

[HateDoingSEO]

CAN BE 3 possibilities

Google take is copied content , but being on same url it will resolve and serps will be back in a few days

Google considering work is being done agiain serps will be back in a few days

Penguin Update hit , try to fix and fill this form and go on holdays , wont be fixed for while .

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEVxdmdRWFJRTjRoLWZVTHZkaTBQbkE6MQ&ndplr=1