Getting 260,000 pages re-indexed?
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Hey there guys,
I was recently hired to do SEO for a big forum to move the site to a new domain and to get them back up to their ranks after this move. This all went quite well, except for the fact that we lost about 1/3rd of our traffic. Although I expected some traffic to drop, this is quite a lot and I'm wondering what it is. The big keywords are still pulling the same traffic but I feel that a lot of the small threads on the forums have been de-indexed. Now, with a site with 260,000 threads, do I just take my loss and focus on new keywords? Or is there something I can do to get all these threads re-indexed?
Thanks!
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Great, I'm going to try that, thanks a lot!
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Link to your category pages... Or a good idea might be to prepare pages by topic that feature (and link to) some of the most informative and popular threads.
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We didn't actually do a 404, we 301'd everything, and I do mean everything, to our new domain.
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Yes
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Aye, that's what I thought as well
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Nothing changed except for ads, which we placed better, the site speed is the same because we didn't move hosts. It actually improved lately because of someone we hired to optimize the site's speed. The backlinks coming in have transfered and we are building new ones. The thing is, the site itself is ranking really well for its new keywords, it's just these old ones that apparently have died
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260,000 threads indeed, they go back to 2006 though, so we've had some time to get posts.
Throwing those PR5 links in there would help of course, but where to I point them at? How deep do I link? I could link to all the 260,000 threads but I believe that would be a little crazy.
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check list:
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) 404 , done
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301 done
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Been two months so by now google must have settled down with the traffic
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How about on page factors ?
- page Title
-Layout
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ads
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Site speed
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Linking outside
U need to check if they are all the same.
if its not this then I am afraid I can't come up with anymore points to help you with
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while this maybe true in the general since I would like to however point out that the loss of traffic is caused due to shifting of the domain.
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Almost two months now.
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How long has it been since you have moved your site ?
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260,000 threads?
How many inbound links do you have to hold all of that pagemass in the index?
If you don't have lots of high PR deep links into the site the spiders will visit obscure pages infrequently and will forget about them.
You need to link deep into these pages at multiple points with heavy PR. That will force a continuous and recurring stream of spiders down into the mass and require them to chew their way out. I think that you need a few dozen PR5 links at least for healthy indexing.
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We've checked Google webmasters for 404 and crawl errors which we all fixed a day after moving. I can't check all the pages in SEOMoz tools because of the limit. We did do a complete 301 actually, redirecting every page to its new location.
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I wud check google webmaster for 404 and crawl errors and fix them first.
I would then do the same in using seo moz tools.
After all that I would do a complete 301 from the old domain to the new domain.
Hope this helps
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