Lost all ranking after site-wide 301 redirect
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Hi all
I did a complete site-wide 310 redirect about 3 weeks ago for a site that had consistently been in Pos 1-5 for my targeted keyword ("low glycemic foods").
I changed the domain from low-glycemic-foods-org to low-glycemic-diet.com because I thought that was a more appropriate title and thru my readings I believed that if I carefully followed the recommended procedures I would quickly regain my SERP.
Webmaster tools is showing that I have over 800 inbound links - many from very trustworthy sources including .edu, etc BUT my home page is nowhere to be found for the keyword search "low glycemic diet".
My Seomoz onpage SEO score is an "A"
Any enlightenment would be much appreciated.
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I agree with Irving - you probably want to let Google reindex all of those 301 links, so you might not have a problem at all in a couple of weeks.
It's also possible that "low glycemic foods" is easier to rank for than "low glycemic diet." If you search for "low glycemic foods" in Google, most of the top 10 search results don't actually have that phrase in their page titles or URLs. Since you did, you would have ranked well in comparison. If you search for "low glycemic diet," you can see that the first 6 results (in my personalized view) have the exact phrase "low glycemic diet" in their page title. That's going to make it harder for you to compete with them.
I checked on the search traffic for "low glycemic foods" vs. "low glycemic diet" and found that "low glycemic foods" gets more searches per month than "low glycemic diet." I know that you feel that "low glycemic diet" is more appropriate for your site, but if it's easier to rank for "low glycemic foods" and there are more people searching for "low glycemic foods," I would stick with your original URL.
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I have just checked your website , you should do something to get back your rank as quick as it would be.
1- Create high quality backlinks
2- submit you website on relevant directories
3- most important things is do social , Share your website on social networks as much as you can. some of them are
- YouTube
- Google+
- Slideshare
- FourSquare
- StumbleUpon
- Flickr
- Tumblr
- MySpace
Remember, you should share all of your page links .
4- Watch you on-page seo ( titles and ... )
Although It takes time to get back your position , social media , bookmarks and networks can help you to shorten time.
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I am just reiterating what many have expressed before on these forums.
1. A percentage of page juice is lost with 301 redirects and you may not have enough page rank to maintain the same ranking positions.
2. Sometimes it takes a few weeks for the engines to process the 301 redirects and you just need to sit tight.
3. Keep checking Bing and Google Webmasters for any error or SEO issues.
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