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Got it. No, no results show up but interestingly when I go to www.mysite.com/staging, it does show up as 1active user on analytic report, which is what got me worried and made me realize of this problem.

Thanks Pete. When I search for mysite.com/staging on google, I only see mysite.com as first result...and nothing at all on staging. Is that what you mean I should check?

Thanks Federico. That's re-assuring. Also, a related point, since the whole site was duplicated, so was the Google analytic code.

Does that have any impact?

Also, is there a way to check if the test server was in fact indexed or not?

Last week (exactly 8 days ago to be precise) my developer created a staging/test site to test some new features. The staging site duplicated the entire existing site on the same server.

To explain this better -My site address is - www.mysite.com

The path of the new staging site was www.mysite/staging

I realized this only today and have immediately restricted robot text and put a no index no follow on the entire duplicate server folder but I am sure that Google would have indexed the duplicate content by now?

So far I do not see any significant drop in traffic but should I be worried? and what if anything can I do at this stage?

Thanks for that Mike.

With regard to point no 2 - Page 1 is the old URL & Page 2 is the new URL. But a wrong Page 1 URL was entered to redirect it to page 2. There is no Page 3.

In effect, what has happened is that a page (which did not ever exist) was being redirected to Page 2 while the correct page 1 path was never redirected. Now I have removed all those (wrong) 301 redirects. But when I try to redirect the correct Page 1 URL path to Page 2 now, it does not redirect.

The address bar shows me a crazy long URL path (like its coming from cache) when I enter the page 1 URL path.

I recently restructured my webpage URL's (about 300 ~ 75% of my total website) to make the URL paths more SEO friendly. Within a few hours of restructuring the pages, I did a 301 redirect to my old URL's and pointed them to the new pages. I have seen ~ 50% drop in organic traffic.

I started the restructuring exercise 14 days ago and finished it a few hours back. I have 3 questions:

1. How long will it take for me to recover my old traffic. Will I recover most of it or some of it?
2. Due to a glitch in the specified path, some old URL's were wrongly redirected (this happened with 9 pages to be exact). I will explain exactly what happened:

www.redirct.com/superseonow1  ----  redirected to ---- www.redirectnow.com/seonow1

**/superseonow was 301 redirected to /seonow. After 3 days I realize that /superseonow1 was actually /supernow1. The same thing happened to 9 pages - /superseonow2, /superseonow3 ..... **

I have removed all the wrong redirects. When I tried to enter the correct (old) paths now and 301 redirect them to the new paths, the page was not found using the old paths.

Should I redirect the old paths to the New ones even now?

3. Finally, in how much time after you change the page structure should you use the 301 redirect. Since I had two different teams working on this job, there could have been up to a 24 hour gap between the redirection.