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The site is three months old and I did the 301 about two weeks ago.

We can rule out the EMD problem since the old domain was just the name of the business. Plus everything was fine until two weeks ago when I messed it up, and that would be too coincidental.

Is there any issue with redirecting an html site to a php site?

Hi Chad,

I have an htaccess file that is in there already and it said that with the exception of the "Options+FollowSymLinks", so I added that line in. Could that be it? Is there something I could try next?

Thanks so much!

Hi, thanks for your response. Yes, I did a 301 from the old domain to the new domain and the redesigned website. I had initially redirected the site using code in each of the html files, and that was fine, and my rank was climbing with the new site for awhile, before I did the 301 through the host. I went to ahrefs and copied and pasted the results below. I'm an SEO newb, so I'm not sure how to analyze the results.

Old Site:

URL Rank: 0Ahrefs Domain Rank: 0.17Backlinks: 58
Referring domains: 1

New Site:

URL Rank: 7.9Ahrefs Domain Rank: 0Backlinks: 3Referring domains: 1

I have a site that was ranking in the top two for my search terms. We had a funky url (it contained hyphens) and was advised to change it for SEO, so I setup a perm redirect through my web host (before it was a temporary one I think) At the same time I installed a sitemap plugin for Wordpress and also registered for a Google Places account. I can't remember the exact order I did this -- does it matter? Anyway, within a couple days of doing the above, my ranking dropped to the bottom of the second page. I would like to fix this, but I'm not sure. I need help please!