Lost traffic after remapping blog

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    afifahhamilton · Member ·

    I recently upgraded from free to personal plan so I could remap my blog from rosemarycottageclinic.wordpress.com to blog.rosemarycottageclinic.co.uk

    The latter is a sub domain of my self hosted business site, and I thought ‘connecting’ the two more closely might be a good business move.

    It all went smoothly and I even got round to registering my blog with google console. However, since I did this my organic traffic has tanked from an average of 100 visitors per day, to about 35.

    WordPress say that moving to a new domain name should not affect traffic, but that’s not my experience and now I don’t know what to do.

    Another observation: in the past if I googled ‘Rosemary Cottage Clinic’ then my blog would be right up there with my business site in first or second place. Now only my business site shows up.

    I’m tempted to move the site back again to the old address but I’m not sure I’ll recover the original traffic. Any ideas?

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    This is normal. Your site now has a different address on the web, and search engines will need to re-index your site at that new address before it will start routing people to it again. This typically takes a few weeks, after which your traffic from search engines should return more or less to what it was before the change.

    WordPress say that moving to a new domain name should not affect traffic

    Where did you find this information? Changing a site address does not affect your followers, and links you’ve shared to the old/free address are automatically redirected to the new one if people click on them, but we have no control over how search engines list your site, and changing the URL of any site on any platform will always cause a temporary drop in search engine traffic.

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