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When you change your domain, How much time do I have to wait for google to return the traffic used to have?
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Hello.
20 days ago, I changed my domain from uclasificados.net to uclasificados.com doing redirect 301 to all urls, and I started to loose rankings since that moment.
I was wondering if changing it back could be the solutions, but some experts recommend me not to do that, because it could be worse.
Right now I receave almost 50% of traffic I used to receave before, and I have done a lot of linkbuilding strategies to recover but nothing have worked until now.
Even though I notified google of this change and I send again my new sitemap, I don't see that have improve my situation in any aspects, and I still see in webmastertools search stats from my last website (the website who used to be uclasificados.com before the change).
What should I do to recover faster?
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thanks man, all your advises have been very helpful
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Agree with others. We have seen 3-6 months depending upon the size of the site. I would cover all the basics first, meaning:
1. Sitemap submission
2. All pages set to fetch in GWT, Bing WT
3. Updated crawl request of your site and all linked pages
4. Cleanup of any and all backlinks to old site domain, including social profiles
5. Updated sitemap crawl frequency (daily vs weekly) just to spur Google along
6. Manual search for broken backlinks or old 404 pagesHope this helps!
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Agree with Andy and Donford.
I've seen it take as long as 8 months. It really depends on how long it takes for Google to reindex your site and every other page that previously pointed (backlinked) to you. It also assumes, as Andy-Halliday has pointed out, you've done your redirects correctly.
Don't give up. Don't change it back. Be patient. The only thing you can do is earn more and better links and that's not really recovering faster, it's augmenting your existing authority.
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Hi
Sorry there is no 'x' date that I can give you. It all depends on Google and whether you have done all the 301s etc correctly.
When you say you are doing 'link building' strategies what do you mean, maybe this is the problem if your have got a bad link somewhere?
I wouldn't recommend going back - you wouldn't get the traffic back to what you had and as the 'experts' said it would cause you more problems.
I would check all the 301s are correctly, did you actually change anything on the site at the same time or was it just the url that you changed?
Thanks
Andy
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My personal experience has been up to six months.
May not be the best of news for you, but I certainly wouldn't change it back. That could further complicate things.
For now I would continual link building where you can and give it some more time.
Hope this helps,
Don
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