WordPress upgrade, Google Webmaster.
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Ok I upgraded my blog a month ago, and now I need to know what to do with Google Webmaster, obviously my site is still indexed (and appears to have retained ranking), but I am seeing a loss of traffic. Do I need to add the upgraded domain as a seperate site on webmaster, and if so what do I do about the old one? (leave it there, or delete it). I am seeing no stats from webmaster so guessing this is because it’s counting the traffic as going to a different site. If I leave both addresses on webmaster will google not record that as duplicate content?
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You got what upgrade? I’m going to guess a custom domain. Well, this always happens with a custom domain. The new domain has zero pagerank, and if you set it primary it slowly builds up in the search engine rankings at the same time as the old URL starts to fall. Within 4-6 months everything will be back to normal. There is no way to avoid this, unfortunately.
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Ah yes I get you now, thank you, yes that is what I meant. So I currently have both sites sat in Webmaster the old .wordpress.com and the .com, do I have to delete the old site? Or leave it there? The traffic for the old domain dropped to nothing with a few days, I am still seeing hits on the site but about 30% of what I was getting before.
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I just leave it where it was with Google Webmaster. Google can figure it out. Sounds normal; everyone is reporting low hits lately btw. And there’s always a drop.
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