80% Drop in Organic Traffic
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Hi
I have a small private blog on wine which, on Monday of this last week, took an overnight tumble and lost all its first page rankings for wine terms. The blog used to be housed at blogspot but in October I moved to self hosted wordpress.
The original site was: wine90.blogspot.com and this now has a redirect to wine90.com. I paid for a professional to port the site from blogger to wordpress and to set up a 301 redirect.
Firstly, is there anything wrong with the move? Could I have lost my rankings for this reason?
Secondly, I haven't added a new blog post in nearly 3 months, would this cause such a drop?
Thirdly, I have noticed that the hosting (I host with the same man who ported the site from blogger) has been poor and the website has been down a couple of times on the rare occasions I checked it recently.
I'm looking for some help, although this is not a money making site, its only a hobby that I add to when I have time, but it is a shame to have written 200 articles and now to face this slap from Google.
There are no messages in WMT and I do not actively seek links so nothing dodgy there.
Any ideas? When I asked the guy who is hosting it he told me that this week there has been a big SEO update but I haven't heard of it?
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Firstly, is there anything wrong with the move? Could I have lost my rankings for this reason?
It appears there may be an issue with the redirects. I am seeing strange headers resolving elsewhere beside your new domain. I would ask your guy to look into them.
The 301 is hitting the new domain but there are 302s in the header response codes pointing to another location as well. SEE: http://screencast.com/t/53MnOfHCK3
ADDED Below due to a complete lapse in memory of country specific functionality.
Keep in mind that could just be country specific redirection based upon the tool so don't quote me but I would disable the functionality after a move.
My notes on disabling this are to add the following to blog head section:
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