Changed my static HTML page to a Wordpress blog with handwritten content and lost 90% of SE traffic - GoFuckYourself.com

Markul · 05-01-2012, 04:34 AM

What the actual fuck is up with that shit

Most of the static page content went to an about page on the wordpress blog, I then made a bunch of handwritten posts. No fancy plugins or anything and now it's just taken a huge dive.

Nothing changed in terms of inbound links. I'm so confused. Not the particular site matters a whole lot in the big picture... it's just... odd

TheSenator · 05-01-2012, 04:37 AM

Did you re-direct your old pages to the new WordPress pages?

Never touch old pages with SEO juice unless you are gonna properly re-direct them.

Install this http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/
to re-direct properly.

just a punk · 05-01-2012, 04:47 AM

People say static doorways doing much better than hand-written blogs after Penguin update. https://gfy.com/showpost.php?p=18918321&postcount=56

brentbacardi · 05-01-2012, 04:54 AM

I've had great success with both CMS ranking and static pages ranking. I think your lack of redirection could be a big factor if that's something you skipped over.

Markul · 05-01-2012, 04:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheSenator

Did you re-direct your old pages to the new WordPress pages?

Never touch old pages with SEO juice unless you are gonna properly re-direct them.

Install this http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/
to re-direct properly.

It was one page... an index page.. a single page.

But thanks for the plugin!

Quote:

Originally Posted by CyberSEO

People say static doorways doing much better than hand-written blogs after Penguin update. https://gfy.com/showpost.php?p=18918321&postcount=56

That's not what I've experienced, I have a few of these and they got hit hard. However my tubesites are all up. And they hardly have any unique content.

I'll stop worrying about Google and start implementing tradescripts or something. I've already started up a project where I start filtering my own traffic better.

lucas131 · 05-01-2012, 04:57 AM

hey man, seriously, how much is domain? 8usd? why the fuck are you killing sites that have serps, even if google is chaotic like it is and nobody knows what will happen tomorrow, how the fuck can you modify and kill sites that have serps? if you wanted make blogs, just buy few new domains next time and you will have old traffic and also some new one ... oh, man ... lesson learned ... but, those blogs can get rankings soon, but oh man ...

have luck!

CyberHustler · 05-01-2012, 05:05 AM

Like I posted before, my little rule of thumb for established sites is add, but don't change or remove. Not as easy as it sounds and you have to bend the rule a little sometimes, but it works for me.

just a punk · 05-01-2012, 05:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Markul

However my tubesites are all up. And they hardly have any unique content.

Yes tubes and tube-style blogs weren't hit by Penguin. They're still getting the the same SE traffic. Google doesn't care about uniqueness of your content till you have a low bounce rate and high on site time. Actually tubes and tube-blogs fit these requirements just perfect.

Markul · 05-01-2012, 05:17 AM

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Originally Posted by lucas131

hey man, seriously, how much is domain? 8usd? why the fuck are you killing sites that have serps, even if google is chaotic like it is and nobody knows what will happen tomorrow, how the fuck can you modify and kill sites that have serps? if you wanted make blogs, just buy few new domains next time and you will have old traffic and also some new one ... oh, man ... lesson learned ... but, those blogs can get rankings soon, but oh man ...

have luck!

Because it was on my to-do list?

but yea, never change shit... got it

faxxaff · 05-01-2012, 06:08 AM

SERPS do rebound after 2 or 3 weeks in my experience.

pornguy · 05-01-2012, 06:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CyberHustler

Like I posted before, my little rule of thumb for established sites is add, but don't change or remove. Not as easy as it sounds and you have to bend the rule a little sometimes, but it works for me.

You sure can change even the listed pages but take it slow and easy.

Markul · 05-01-2012, 06:34 AM

I installed the redirect thing, pointed index.html to index.php *shrug* let's see what it does

TheSenator · 05-01-2012, 07:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Markul

I installed the redirect thing, pointed index.html to index.php *shrug* let's see what it does

don't point it to ".php" point it to http://www.yourdomain.com/

wehateporn · 05-01-2012, 07:54 AM

With your static page Google knew what to expect, whereas now that it's a blog it's an unknown quantity, Google will be watching you carefully before it decides how much traffic to allocate

Markul · 05-02-2012, 04:00 AM

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Originally Posted by TheSenator

don't point it to ".php" point it to http://www.yourdomain.com/

Actually that's what I did, but you made me check - thanks man!

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