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Thanks Jonathan!

http://www.holtorfmed.com

I've worked very hard for the content to be very high quality.

Before I was in charge of SEO a so called SEO agency did a lot of low quality link building.  Looks like it finally caught up to us. 

Jonathan, thank you.

I looked at all possibilities, except that.  Wow, such a big coincidence. Any thoughts on how to recover?

Yeah, I am with you on that.  I doubt google updates rankings that fast.

However, I switched the site the night of august 22nd and on the 23rd I noticed a decline and keep seeing the traffic decline, traffic is actually down 25% (not 10%) from last month.

If it isn't caused by the migration then what is it?

The thing is. Besides the url difference (.html to /) the content is identical, meta tags, headers, etc is the same as before the migration. I noticed the drop in traffic the very day after the wordpress version of the site went live. I am so bummed.

I am confused on what is going on.

I recently converted my website to wordpress.  I kept the same url structure to the best of my abilities (without the .html) and 301 all .html to / So whatever was www.domain.com/page.html to www.domain.com/page/

The old CMS was a proprietary cms done by the company who originally designed the website.  It was poorly put together and was really buggy.  I decided to move to wordpress due to many limitations particularly for SEO.

Now traffic is down about 10% and looks like the downward trend will continue, also, impressions are down by about 75%.

Any thoughts on what could be happening?

Hello fellow Mozers!

I've searched to see if I find an answer, cant seem to find it.

Is there a way to do a blanket 301 redirect?  I am moving a site that has all pages end with .html extension over to wordpress.

I was wondering if I could set up a rule that says redirect all pages with .html extension to a version of the page with no extension.  I will keep the same url with the exception of the .html extension.

http://www.website.com/page.html to http://www.website.com/page/
http://www.website.com/page-title.html to http://www.website.com/page-title/

Instead of doing a 301 redirect for about 250 pages, I was wondering if I can just do one rule that will handle all the redirects considering I am keeping the same page url without the .html extension.

Thanks

Hi Chris,

Why do you advice against this?

Sorry, I just want to see your point of view (and others).  Thanks again.

I'd like to dominate the front page on Google for my branded keywords.  So figure if I have my blog on a separate domain name will allow me to get an additional property on the first page.

Thanks

Hello there.  I would like to ask for your opinions.

I have DomainA.com/blog and want to move /blog to its own domain.  As of now, the blog section has the exact same UI as the rest of the site, its just a section on our site.

Will it have any negative impact with respect to SEO if DomainA.com and DomainB.com have the exact same UI and are interlinking each other?

Thanks in advanced.

I stand corrected.  Thanks "Agents of Value"

Thank you for your kind replies vzPRO and Andrea!

I actually just received a reply from the "SEO" company.  They're denying that they created those links.  I don't believe them.  Besides them, there's no reason why anybody else would make those links.

I guess I have my hands full.

Thanks again.

Wow! lol...made my day.  I hate cold calls from these type of dimwits, half of the time they have no idea what they're talking about.

I am confused on what is going on.

I recently converted my website to wordpress.  I kept the same url structure to the best of my abilities (without the .html) and 301 all .html to / So whatever was www.domain.com/page.html to www.domain.com/page/

The old CMS was a proprietary cms done by the company who originally designed the website.  It was poorly put together and was really buggy.  I decided to move to wordpress due to many limitations particularly for SEO.

Now traffic is down about 10% and looks like the downward trend will continue, also, impressions are down by about 75%.

Any thoughts on what could be happening?

Thanks Dana! I have 50 keywords because this a very local campaign. The audience i want to reach are local. Thanks again!

Hi Webby,

Interesting observation there.  I've been doing very little link building and my clients also rank well.  I am relatively new to the industry so I cant really offer much input.  However, your post makes me feel better as I was noticing the very same thing.  I'd like to hear what others have to say.

Thanks for posting this question.

The thing is. Besides the url difference (.html to /) the content is identical, meta tags, headers, etc is the same as before the migration. I noticed the drop in traffic the very day after the wordpress version of the site went live. I am so bummed.

Yeah, I am with you on that.  I doubt google updates rankings that fast.

However, I switched the site the night of august 22nd and on the 23rd I noticed a decline and keep seeing the traffic decline, traffic is actually down 25% (not 10%) from last month.

If it isn't caused by the migration then what is it?