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Joseph what a great video. Truly had some actionable things for us and I highly recommend for business owners too! Thanks.

: http://moz.com/webinars/ecommerce-seo-fix-and-avoid-common-issues as Everett Sizemore

Hi Marie,

Thanks so much for your input.  What an amazing group of people here. We will check everything but pretty sure is wasn't an algorithm update since we didn't switch till the 9th and old site traffic was fine. Regardless we will be vigilant with your suggestions.

Right now I have to say Maximilian Peters nailed a lot of technical issues that needed correcting. Did I say this is a great site with tons a bright people.  As a business owner, not an expert, this is huge!

Marie, thanks again

Yes jrdunnblog was our blog we started many moons ago but hasn't been too active lately and jrdunndiamonds is actually another store with that ironically has nothing to do with ours.  He and my father share the exact name!

Egol,

Thanks for your response and providing us some additional actionable information!  Much appreciated.

Best,

Sean

Maximilian,

A huge thank you for pointing me in the right direction and taking the time to respond! It looks like we certainly have our work cut out for us if we are to have a successful selling season. Oddly enough these were some of the things we set out to prevent during development but I was not knowledgeable enough to confirm it was done properly.  Thanks again!

All the best,

Sean

Hi All,

We had some great rankings on store.jrdunn.com since 2006 and we switched to just http://jrdunn.com with cleaner url structures about 13 days ago.  We were on Volusion now Magento.

We mapped out  a couple of thousand of 301's and carefully choose very similar landing pages on the new site. Uploaded an htcaccess file and submitted sitemap in GWT.

We have been correcting 404's and watching GWT like a hawk.

We dropped on several almost all of our great terms from page one to page 14 or 15 on the new site. We don't even rank yet on our own brand terms ?!?.

ORGANIC traffic has dropped more than 50%.

The only thing in our plan that we couldn't execute was using the "we moved" tool in GWT because they don't allow switches from subdomains to be entered.  Bummer!

Do you think missing that one thing caused the plummet? In retrospect perhaps we changed too many things at once ie hosting, cms and going down to root url.

Anyways, I don't know what we can do from here but we'd sure be silly not to ask! Anybody's suggestions or past experiences with this situation would be huge!

Thanks so much in advance,

Sean

Hi Marie,

Thanks so much for your input.  What an amazing group of people here. We will check everything but pretty sure is wasn't an algorithm update since we didn't switch till the 9th and old site traffic was fine. Regardless we will be vigilant with your suggestions.

Right now I have to say Maximilian Peters nailed a lot of technical issues that needed correcting. Did I say this is a great site with tons a bright people.  As a business owner, not an expert, this is huge!

Marie, thanks again