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tvegas last edited by

Recently I switched my from Joomla to WordPress.

I did 301 re-directs ...and promptly fell from Google results after 5 YEARS at no. 1-3

Still ranking 1 in Bing and 3 in Yahoo...but nowhere near the traffic I previously had.

Here is my site:

http://selfdirectedira.org

Any suggestions?

TIA
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Debdulal last edited by

Seems like some of the pages of your website are now returning 404 server side response code-

http://selfdirectedira.org/blog/search/pensco+trust

http://selfdirectedira.org/blog/about/

Suggest fixing them.

Suggest blocking the test pages like this - http://selfdirectedira.org/shortcodes/tabs-accordion/

Your Google Plus Profile lack image - https://plus.google.com/118416969633262389449 .
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eli.boda last edited by

Is the site content identical to the old one?

Also, I took a look at your link profile and I found a couple incoming links that were landing in 404's.
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