no google ranking whatsoever
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Dear WordPress community,
A month ago I have migrated a group weblog that I run with six colleagues from blogger to WordPress (povblog.wordpress.com). We are all super happy about all the splendid functionality of WordPress. The only downside is the fact that our blog has dissapeared in the Google ranking altogether.
I have added our URL to google and all that stuff, but still zip, nada. Does anyone have any advice on it? Would very much appreciate to hear what might have caused this nosedive in the ranking and how to reestablish a proper raking.
Thanks in advance,
Martijn -
Google has indexed your blog:
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-au&q=site:povblog.wordpress.com&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
My guess would be that, because the posts from your old blog still exist at their old URLs, Google sees your new blog as an inferior duplicate of the new one, and therefore doesn’t rank it as well:
http://point-view.blogspot.com/2007/06/my-sweden-clean-spaces-clean.html
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Dear tellyworth,
Thanks for looking into this issue! And yes, good point indeed. I’ve ‘cloaked’ the old blog a couple of days ago, so google can’t find it anymore. Nevertheless, I’d reckon it is still in the cache of google.
I see that google offers a service to remove websites from the Google index. Would that solve the issue you mention?
best,
Martijn -
When you have new URL you have no ranking until the next time Google adjusts them. Page ranks were updated about 5 weeks ago, so it could be a few months yet till you get a PR back.
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Dear ellaella,
Thanks for your reply! Boy, that’s a long time! OK… Seems like I can’t do anything about that.
I was thinking whether I shouldn’t just delete the old blog altogether to prevent any ranking problems in the future. What do you guys think?
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Google only updates about 4 times a year. I know what a long wait it can be; I went through it too.
If everything is as you wish on your new blog then, yes, do delete or make totally private the other one. Telly is right that you’ll be penalized for duplicate content otherwise.
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The toolbar pagerank (which exports now and then to the Google toolbar) has nothing to do with the positions in the search results which I gather the original question was about. Live Pagerank is changed a lot more often but is not either important (and can’t be seen). You definately don’t have to wait for 5 weeks before you can start seeing results.
The problems with moving a blog like this:
When you moved it you changed domain to wordpress instead of blogspot which makes Google consider it a totally new site. Why would google show your new site on the same positions as the old site? The easiest way to fix that is to do a 301 redirect telling Google that the site is permanently moved to this new position.My guess is that you can’t do that from blogspot.
You also lost all inbound links you might have had. All links pointing to posts and the frontpage still points to the blogspot one. If you are not able to 301 them in to the new blog you need to contact all the site owners and ask them to change their links so that they point to the new URL.
You also have a duplicate content problem as previously mentioned.
My suggestion is that you do not set noindex on your old blog as you say you did but cut down all the posts in it to just being slugs and link to the same post in the new blog.
Write a lot more and new content and use the Tag system. When it comes to showing up in Google wordpress beats blogger any time if you use it right.
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thanks everybody for your replies.
I’ve considered the tip of aaapoker to delete the content of the posts on the old blog and replace it with a redirect to that article on the wordpress blog. But that would leave the old blog out there and may risk Google recognizing the new blog as an duplicate of the old one for a longer period.I didn’t want to take that risk and I did the bold solution. I deleted the old blog altogether and I send the Google helpdesk a couple of mails and reminders for some time. A little more than a week later the old blog had dissapeared completely from the Google ranking and the new blog had more or less the very good ranking that old one had before. Very simple, very effective.
best
martijn -
Also be careful which PR calculator you use. My pagerank for my main site is anything from zero to seven, depending on which one I use. It’s ridiculous, but alas I don’t get to keep the highest one; I’m pretty much stuck at five is the consensus.
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Talking about google, I have a question and I didn’t find anything satisfying around here.
My blog is in google, and my blog’s article are in good position in google as well. I had about 400 hits on my blog within 3 weeks.
However, I have never seen a google referral. Ever! The other day, I had so much hits on my blog that I really wondered where it came from.
So why Google never appear in my referrers? Any idea? -
Okay I get it! Yep my “search engine terms” was overloaded the other day by a same term. Thanks for answering.
BTW, congrats for your 500 hits, kind of impressive ;-) -
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Over the last 4 days, I got a serious problem with Google. Each of my new articles don’t appear in Google. It was the case for all my previous articles. I don’t get it. Any idea? Please.
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That being said, my latest articles appear on google blogsearch, but not on google.com
It’s kind of weird really. Anyone around here got the same issue?
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