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Thank you Thomas, I removed you and added you again. Did you receive the invite?

PS. I also resumed Cloudflare for the domain. Since it did not have any influence and it was paused about 2 weeks ago now.

Hi Thomas, just gave you access to GSC and sent you the mail below:It is really strange Google indexed even more of the old url’s. Really sharp from you, you noticed this. I did not see that myself.I was thinking, maybe this is because of the old domain in Search Console still contains the sitemap with al the url’s.But the noindex rules in the pages are gone, since they are redirecting to the new domain.So maybe I need to delete the sitemap in the old domain?On the other hand, since al the pages are redirected and I also filled in the migration form in Search Console, it should not be a problem the sitemap is still there right? This should make Google clear which pages are migrated so it can sent all the authority to the new domain and individual pages, right?I just gave you access to the Search Console for both the domain vihara.nl and meditatieinstituut.nl.Would be great if we can find an issue. But sadly I think everything is done right but it’s in the hands of Google now, and hopefully it will be better within the 180 days…On this page I've added some information about the migration progress. So when there are changes I will add this to this page. It's in Dutch but you can translate this.Thanks again for thinking with me.Gerjan

• Your current robots.txt file does not contain your new or old site map I found your new site map but I cannot find your old site map.

Are you sure this is needed? The old sitemap contains the same url's, since the url's did not change. So I think it's not needed right?

in addition, you are currently not using Cloudflare for using Apache which shows me the site is clearly not going through Cloudflare

I temporary paused Cloudflare to see if this might have a positive effect. Because I've read somewhere you can be on a Cloudflare IP that is blacklisted because some other site on the same IP did some blackhat work. But I think the change is very little and it's already a week ago and I don't see any effect after pausing it.

drop this into Google "site:https://meditatieinstituut.nl"  440 indexed URL
drop this into Google "site:https://vihara.nl"  406 indexed URLs

Yes, this is a little disturbing. I would expect that vihara.nl shouldn't be indexed anymore. The rankings are gone, but most pages are still indexed.

I would like to see your HTAccess code

It only contains these rules, to redirect every single page while only changing the domain:

#Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://meditatieinstituut.nl/$1 [R=301,L]

I would like to know if you are working with a good hosting company

Vimexx.nl > I don't think it's the best but it's quit good. It's the same as the previous site vihara.nl, so I expect it doesn't make it worse than it should be.

as well as what you used to do a search and replace of your URLs?

Yes, I did a find and replace for vihara.nl to meditatieinstituut.nl. So even the images and everything are changed to the new domain.

you should also get your backlinks updated

Yes, I have done this with the most important links pointing to vihara.nl. Many of them are updated now. Some I did not receive a reply.

So thank you for your great reply! I'm really happy you took the time to lookup all the things that could help. Unfortunate I don't think there is something that can make a big change.
I hope that when vihara.nl gets less indexed, the authority goes to meditatieinstituut.nl. I really think it is somehow an authority problem. Everything seemed to be redirected and migrated instead of the authority, somehow...

Thank you soo much Thomas. I just now see your reply (somehow I saw the notification my question was unanswered, while it wasn't.

I will check al your recommendations and come back to this. Also I will give you access to the search console. Will sent you a DM after I checked your suggestions.

Hi,

I already asked the question on different places. But so far nobody could help me. 
Hope someone can help me out. If possible.
I migrated my website https://vihara.nl to https://meditatieinstituut.nl and lost about 80% traffic (see printscreens). It's over more than a month ago now and there is no sign of getting it back up.

Maybe there is nothing to do and
1. I have to be patient and traffic comes back in a few months. 
or
2. There is nothing to do and I've lost everything I've build up in the last years. Start over again to get the rankings back.
or maybe, maybe
3. I just forgot something that I still need to do to get the rankings back up. Or there is something I did not think of...

This is done:

• The website is migrated 1 on 1. No changes in content, url, code, etc. Everything is exactly the same as on the previous domain.
• 301 redirects whole domain (via htaccess a bulk redirect). All the old pages, without exceptions, lead to the exact new page.
• The new domain is running from CDN (Cloudflare) with the same settings as the previous domain.
• SSL is installed in the exact same way.
• Domain migration set up in Search console (working).
• Uploaded new sitemap (working).
• Updated internal links.
• Changed the most important external links (where I could get contact after reaching out)
• In meanwhile received some new external links and also posted new content

Anybody knows what to do? Or do I just have to be more patient and will it come back in a few months by itself?

Looking forward to suggetions.

Thanks!

Gerjan

Migratie-Meditatie-Instituut-2048x786.jpg verloop-sinds-de-start-2048x355.jpg

Hi,

To holding of a client of ours, has bought the webshop from a competitor. They have moved the domain of the competitor to their own server, and also changed the technique so both sites have the same CMS and also same technique on the front-end.
How bad is this for SEO? Should they change from server ASAP and are there solutions to do stay on the same server but use something like an CDN?

Looking forward to your thoughts.

Thanks!

• Your current robots.txt file does not contain your new or old site map I found your new site map but I cannot find your old site map.

Are you sure this is needed? The old sitemap contains the same url's, since the url's did not change. So I think it's not needed right?

in addition, you are currently not using Cloudflare for using Apache which shows me the site is clearly not going through Cloudflare

I temporary paused Cloudflare to see if this might have a positive effect. Because I've read somewhere you can be on a Cloudflare IP that is blacklisted because some other site on the same IP did some blackhat work. But I think the change is very little and it's already a week ago and I don't see any effect after pausing it.

drop this into Google "site:https://meditatieinstituut.nl"  440 indexed URL
drop this into Google "site:https://vihara.nl"  406 indexed URLs

Yes, this is a little disturbing. I would expect that vihara.nl shouldn't be indexed anymore. The rankings are gone, but most pages are still indexed.

I would like to see your HTAccess code

It only contains these rules, to redirect every single page while only changing the domain:

#Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://meditatieinstituut.nl/$1 [R=301,L]

I would like to know if you are working with a good hosting company

Vimexx.nl > I don't think it's the best but it's quit good. It's the same as the previous site vihara.nl, so I expect it doesn't make it worse than it should be.

as well as what you used to do a search and replace of your URLs?

Yes, I did a find and replace for vihara.nl to meditatieinstituut.nl. So even the images and everything are changed to the new domain.

you should also get your backlinks updated

Yes, I have done this with the most important links pointing to vihara.nl. Many of them are updated now. Some I did not receive a reply.

So thank you for your great reply! I'm really happy you took the time to lookup all the things that could help. Unfortunate I don't think there is something that can make a big change.
I hope that when vihara.nl gets less indexed, the authority goes to meditatieinstituut.nl. I really think it is somehow an authority problem. Everything seemed to be redirected and migrated instead of the authority, somehow...