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Thanks Dana, checked out the blog and video...pinned to my RSS feed.

Hi Sheena, sorry I didn't respond sooner, I wasn't receiving any notifications.

Thank you very much for your answer though, this was extremely helpful and helped verify that what I was thinking was correct, with some added help from you.

I didn't think taking away the 301 was the best approach, but from a bosses standpoint he sees it as them getting clicks that shouldn't be theirs, I just have to do my best job of explaining why it's better for long term.

The hreflang is in place and I think the best approach would be to consolidate international domains to the .com ccTLD's

Thanks again, very helpful.
-Reed

Thanks for helping out Bryan and Donford, it's been about a month and a half since migration so I'll definitely wait it out another month, implement some good marketing/content and see what it looks like after that.

Ahh, the waiting game of organic traffic.

Hey Ryan, I actually have another question if you wouldn't mind helping out.

Before our migration, our old team was creating all URLS with underscores as separators and ending in .jsp. I changed this to not have .jsp and to only use "-" as word separators in URLs.

However, we have a lot of backlinks with content linking to those .jsp URLs (and our old blog posts all link to those pages), which are 404 product pages. (I can redirect, but there are thousands of them). I could probably develop a script to automatically rewrite too.

My question: could this be a contributing factor to our organic downfall too?

Haha yeah I tend to get OCD on a lot of things. Awesome, thanks for taking the time to get back to me on this. I have learned to love the Moz community these days.

And that's a good answer, that's what I was hoping, but I guess anytime I see a traffic dip I immediately panic rather than take into mind what you just said.

Thanks again,

-Reed