Traffic drops significantly after buying domain
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Last week our blog (http://firmsconsulting.wordpress.com/) started seeing a steady increase in traffic:
Monday – 30
Tuesday – 37
Wednesday – 61
Thursday – 201
Friday – 310On friday I bought the domain firmsconsulting and activated it. We then saw a steady drop in traffic:
Saturday – 50
Sunday – 201
Monday – 170
Tuesday -130
Wednesday – 120
Thursday – 80
Friday -50Why would this be. Would changing my address to http://firmsconsulting.com do this? I have changed it back to http://firmsconsulting.wordpress.com/
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All links from the old blog address will automatically redirect to the new address, so any links on the search engines will still get to you, and with a 301 permanent redirect, so the search engines will pick up the new URLs and move your page rank over to the new URL automatically, but it will take a little time. It is not unusual to see a drop when you first switch to a new domain name (who knows why?).
There is also some apparent weirdness going on with Google in general, and a good portion of my clients have seen their referrals from Google drop significantly lately. My self-hosted blog dropped by 40% and I believe Raincoaster’s has by about the same margin (hosted here).
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i changed my blog to dot com in august when i did it i was averaging 1,900 visits a day and every week since i droped to 1,200 then to 800, down to 200 and friday i got 24 people, im now avaeraging 200-300
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My blog has actually dropped by about 70% since May. There’s something peculiar going on with that blog, and it shouldn’t be taken as typical.
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You will drop when you get a new domain name, but not normally by THAT much, since the links to http://thepeoplesmovies.wordpress.com/ will all still work. Something else is responsible for that.
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