Site Stats – Low Traffic

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  quranrelection · Member · Jul 9, 2015 at 10:35 am

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  Hi,

  I have launched my new website back in April 2015 but the number of viewers on the site stats is very low.

  I used to have a great traffic on my old free wordpress site, I was expecting better traffic for the new website.

  Can you please help?

  Thanks,
  Samara

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

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Jul 9, 2015 at 3:24 pm

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  Hi,

  I used to have a great traffic on my old free wordpress site, I was expecting better traffic for the new website.

  If you haven’t deleted the old site, a site redirect might help to raise your traffic closer to previous levels.

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  quranrelection · Member · Jul 9, 2015 at 3:58 pm

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  I haven’t deleted it https:// samaranouri.wordpress.com but I don’t know how to redirect.

  Many Thanks

  Samara

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Jul 9, 2015 at 4:06 pm

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  Hi, Samara,
  You’re welcome. I provided a link above, but here it comes again: the Site Redirect support page.

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  quranrelection · Member · Jul 11, 2015 at 6:16 am

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  Hi There,

  I followed the site redirect as you suggested.
  There’s an option on My Domain page for mapping, I have my own domain for the new website which I want to keep. I’m not sure what mapping is?

  Do I need it or redirecting is enough?

  Thanks

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  quranrelection · Member · Jul 11, 2015 at 6:39 am

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  Hi Again,

  I just tested the redirection, by searching a topic in google where my old blog is well indexed. I fond the topic listed #3 on google and directed to the new website but I get Error 404 when click on the link.
  it adds the article date to the address that cause the error.

  http://samaranouri.com/2013/01/12/name of article
  While the correct address is
  http://samaranouri.com/name of article

  I will loose all the visitors on my old website if this continue.

  Can you please help at earliest.

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Jul 11, 2015 at 4:01 pm

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  Hi,

  http://samaranouri.com/2013/01/12/name of article
  While the correct address is
  http://samaranouri.com/name of article

  All posts have dates. The second example, the “correct address,” is the URL of a static page. The Site Redirect upgrade won’t change posts to pages, or add dates to URLs that previously didn’t have them.

  I followed the site redirect as you suggested…I just tested the redirection…

  Did you purchase a Site Redirect upgrade. You can’t test it without purchasing it.

  There’s an option on My Domain page for mapping, I have my own domain for the new website which I want to keep. I’m not sure what mapping is?

  Custom Domains and Domain mapping are irrelevant to the site redirection. No, you don’t need it.

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  quranrelection · Member · Jul 11, 2015 at 6:35 pm

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  Yes I purchased the site redirect and changed the permalink on the new site to day and name option to match the old blog.

  Unfortunately I can’t change the structure for the permalink on wordpress.com (old blog) to post name permalink option.

  How to get the new website fully archived in Google?

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Jul 11, 2015 at 7:05 pm

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  Hi,

  Yes I purchased the site redirect and changed the permalink on the new site to day and name option to match the old blog.

  Since your old website and your new website are both WordPress.com sites, there would be no reason to change the permalink structure. I think you might have misunderstood the following section of the Site Redirect support page:

  Please note: In order for the Site Redirect to work correctly, the permalinks on the new site (the one you’re redirecting to) should match those at WordPress.com. WordPress.com uses the following permalink structure:

  http://example.com/2014/10/21/sample-post/

  If the new site you’re redirecting to does not use this permalink structure, the redirect will try to find a post on your new site that matches the post URL from your WordPress.com site, but some visitors may see an error message indicating no matching post could be found.

  The structure of your post URLs (and page URLs as well) on the new site would have already matched those of the old one. Note that the example given above is a post URL . Static page URLs, including the posts page, won’t have dates.

  How to get the new website fully archived in Google?

  It will take time. The dead links will gradually be dropped out, and posts and pages on the new will eventually be indexed. I’m not sure whether the site redirect helps Google in the process of removing links to defunct URLs and replacing them with links to active ones, but it will help everyone get to the correct posts and pages, regardless of the location of the referring links.