Loss of referral traffic after change of CMS, host
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I have a client that changed from MoveableType to Wordpress. He also changed from a dedicated server to WP Engine.
He may have blocked search engines for a week or two, so his organic traffic is down but only by 25%. He's 301 redirecting all of the old pages. The mystery is that his referral traffic from Google is down 90%. It's a popular blog, so that's thousands. It's been going on a month now. Anyone seen this before?
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Hi Jim, has this been resolved? Please let us know, thanks!
Christy
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Hi Jim, it's great to see you here! Small world and all that ... So, were you able to resolve this issue for your client? Please give us an update, thanks!
Christy
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Any of those things could have tanked the traffic.... and a lot of things you have not mentioned.
To say anything different would simply be guessing.
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