Welcome to the Q&A Forum

That's so nice of you to ask

Unfortunately no! I even took out the whole front page (and just made it into the latest posts) which had almost all of the customizations, and still nothing doing. My traffic now is down to 1560 a day (from around 13,000) and only 117 of them are from google.

I just can't imagine what the issue can possibly be. I mean if the issue doesn't have to do with 301 (because it went down when I changed to this design even when it was still under greatcleanjokes.com) and it doesn't have to do with the customizations of the front page (because that's gone) what can the issue possibly be??!

Any ideas?

ok I think I will. Maybe I'll just wait a day to see if any of the suggestions worked.

Thanks again!

Yes the page views did increase a bit.

Thanks again for your response!

In google analytics the new site was doing better, ie. more time per page,

I still think it's weird that when you search for site:chokeonajoke.com not one subcategory shows up until page 35, just a couple of main categories show up, but mostly what shows up is post pages. Why would the post pages out rank the subcategory pages?

I'm also wondering if it is ok to use hostmonster's dashboard to redirect or if I should be doing it myself using .htacess file. The only reason I'm asking is because no search engine seems to be picking up on the 301

Thanks Luis,

DO you think that was a problem because of the 404? Or are you basing it on something else?

Thank you so much for your detailed answer.

I really appreciate you taking the time to look at it.

I deleted quite a few plugins and the speed definitely picked up quite a bit.

You are right that there is a lot of java script and css (I guess that's what happens when u hire a foreigner from odesk

Although it's hard to believe that that will completely knock me off the serps

I guess I'll wait a few days and see if picking up the speed makes a difference.

Thanks again!

Well yeah every category has a few pages so pages 2, 3 ect. are all noindexed but that shouldn't effect traffic to the 1st page in the category.

Good try

But no I just checked and the box is unchecked.

Any other ideas?

Thanks for responding. 1. Yes I did submit a sitemap 2. The reason I went back and forth is because the traffic kept going down, so I switched back before it would cause long term damage. That wasn't the cause of the issue, that was in response to the issue, you understand?

Do you have anyone who you would recommend that I hire to look at it?

Hi I'm having big issues! Any help would be greatly appreciated

This is the 3rd time this happened. Every time I switch my old site greatcleanjokes.com to the new design of chokeonajoke.com traffic goes almost completely down (I even tried out the new design on greatcleanjokes [to see if it was a 301 issue] and traffic also went down.) What can possibly be wrong with this new site that google just doesn't like it ?!

I was ranking high up for many big phrase like joke of the day, corny jokes, clean jokes, short jokes. Now It's all gone.

I also think it's strange that when I search for site:chokeonajoke.com the post pages show up before the category pages!?

Here is the old site http://web.archive.org/web/20140406214615/http://www.greatcleanjokes.com/

Here is the new one http://chokeonajoke.com/

If you can't figure out anything do you know of anyone I can hire who may be able to figure it out?