Need help: Traffic reduced to half after "attempting" to change permalink structure

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This is regarding my 4 years old wordpress blog http://ReviewOfWeb.com/ .

For some reason I was feeling more adventurous on Oct/15th, 2011 and thought of experimenting with permalink structure on my blog.

The existing permalink structure was
PHP Code:
/%category%/%postname%/ 
. I changed it to
PHP Code:
/%postname%/%post_id%/ 
and then realizing it may affect existing Google rankings of my website I reverted to
PHP Code:
/%category%/%postname%/ 
This was all done within a span of half hour.

Since that day, I see my traffic has reduced to half. Earlier the traffic used to average 650 visits/day now it is averaging 325 visits/day as per Google Analytics.

Any inputs of why this is happening and what can be done to get my traffic back?

Thanks
#programming #attempting #change #half #permalink #reduced #structure #traffic
  • Hi there,

    Do you have sitemap ?
    If yes, submit a new one (update the actually one)
    Check with Google Webmaster Tools

    Try to ping to let it know than your webpage has been updated.

    And be patient.....

    David
  • Did that long back... in fact on Oct 15th itself but no change.
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