What are the consequences of doing a 301 redirect?
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Just recently we did a redirection from a website that is ranking very well. The redirection was done through redirecting the page of the website A to the related page of website B. Website B raked massive traffic in the first week and have increased its ranking among Google searches but recently the traffic seems to decline. Website A which was ranking very well before redirection is now nowhere to be found on Google search.
Is this a consequence of doing redirection? Please help.
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"Website A which was ranking very well before redirection is now nowhere to be found on Google search. "
Hi - a question about this statement - did you just redirect ONE page from Website A to Website B, and now A is not ranking at all, and B is not ranking as well as it did for the first week?
Sorry, I was not quite clear on that point and need to be sure before answering the question.
Cheers,
Jane
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Did you notify Google of the site move in webmaster tools?
You also need to remember that when you do a 301, you always lose some pagerank - it is impossible to create a new site from fresh and have it immediately start to rank the same as the previous.
Also check that Google has the sitemap from the new site added in webmaster tools. If the old one still exists, just delete it.
-Andy
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Hi,
I've seen it before that after a redirect from site A to site B that the new site will quickly be indexed and takes over the juices from site A but after a couple of weeks will suffer a bit. Probably because the site will still be seen a bit like 'new' to Google. If you keep on building the site and it's authority you'll come over this.
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Doing a 301 redirect will pass authority from the URL that you are redirecting from. When you do a 301 redirect from one domain to another Google will remove the redirected site from its index once it recrawls the pages and find the 301 redirect - as your site that the redirect points to is now the new location of that site. You may find this useful - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93633?hl=en
You have done 301 redirects at a page level which is the right move and this shouldn't be responsible for your sites traffic decline. Is website B still ranking well?
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