Site lost in Google
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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:
Any suggestions?
TIA
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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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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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