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Search engine impressions tanking

by Grown
6 replies
  • SEO
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Hey guys,

Rookie here looking for any help whatsoever I can get.

Here's what's going on. I have two websites on Bluehost, one is a subdomain. The subdomain site was on wordpress.com for about a month and starting to pick up traffic-wise.

I decided to move it to Bluehost and it's been there for about ten days. The problem is that my impressions for both Google and Bing have dropped from around 400 a day to literally like 4! I'm stressing out over this because I don't know what's wrong, the other site (my primary domain) seems to be doing just fine.

I know it's not crappy content because I get great feedback on my site and know that the content is helpful.

Yesterday, I inserted this code into my .htaccess of the web files of the "subdomain.primarydomain.com" not the web files of just the "subdomain.com"

"RewriteEngine On
## SEO REWRITE
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.subdomain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.subdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]"

I later read that inserting that redirect may not even have a difference! Ugh.

I really just want to get my site back to the direction where it was headed before I left wordpress.com.

If you've have any similar experiences and can help, please let me know! Thank you for your help!
#engine #search #tanking #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author Grown
    anyone experience anything similar?
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  • Profile picture of the author darphas
    trasferyour site to hostgator or banahosting
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  • Profile picture of the author Grown
    Thanks but I was hoping for some more specific advice as to how I could remedy this huge drop in impressions while remaining on Blue Host or at least find out if this is a common thing that occurs after a wordpress.com transfer.
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  • Profile picture of the author Grown
    Anybody else have any suggestions? Have absolutely no idea what to do from this point. thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    I would put the old site/pages back up on wordpress.com. You could have left the old WP site alone & used it as a backlink source for the new domain URL.
    • Check your old wordpress.com Home page Google Cache, is the Cache still there?
    • Check the old wordpress.com site:domain.wordpress.com to see If Google still has old pages indexed.

    Two domains ranked for the same main keywords is better, it's a safety net in case one ranked page (domain) drops in the SERPs. I would rather lose 30% traffic than 99% traffic, If I had to take a hit in the SERPs.
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