.co.uk to .com domain move Dec 26th, still 40% down - do I risk moving back? (desperate)
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Hi All,
I'm desperate for a bit of advice. I run www.tyrereviews.com which has been my project since 2006, and after LOTS of hard work over 15 years held 1000's of P1 positions in the SERPs.
I recently moved from the original .co.uk to .com to aid with future internationalising plans. I was very careful not to change ANYTHING else, just 301 from the UK to the .com and updated everything in webmaster consoles. My background is development and I spent weeks triple researching everything to make sure I followed all the google best practices, as this is my life's work and primary income source.
From a tech point of view the change went perfectly, but sadly google quickly started deranking the new domain, and now two months on it seems to have stabilised at around 40% down on traffic year on year and mostly dropped from the UK region.
This is mostly from medium to long tail keywords. One such example is "Michelin Primacy 4" in google UK, old webmaster tools is showing my average position this time last year as 1.4 and now I'm 12.4!
The .com site is geo targeted to the UK by both webmaster tools and href lang tags.
So, my question is, so I keep waiting, or do I give up andrisk the switch back to the uk domain before it's too late?
Thanks in advance.
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3 months on and the rankings aren't moving. Can anyone suggest whether moving back is now a good idea?
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I think that i was answer you on other forum...
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