www.PatriotChassis.com
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We just went live with a wordpress website. This site took the place of a preexisting shopify site. Google search console is showing that we have a significant number of 404 indexing issues. Our web developer is suggesting that this is normal. But its getting worse over time not better and our clicks are dropping. Any insight on what’s going on?
WP.com: Yes
Jetpack: No
Correct account: YesThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there!
Let me clarify the hosting first. Your site is hosted with another company than WordPress.com, it means that you use the open-source variant of the WordPress platform (which functions differently than what we offer here on WordPress.com) and help is available at the community forums here: https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting
Nevertheless, you are welcome to move the site here! You would get our full support, including the live chat and many more. I checked your site and since you need the store features you would want a Business plan https://wordpress.com/pricing/ We would be happy to guide you further if you are interested.
Regarding the indexing issues, this is indeed normal when you point the domain to another place. It is related to DNS propagation and the fact that Google needs time to reindex the site. You could try asking them to recrawl it: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/ask-google-to-recrawl
I hope it helps!
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Am I missing out on options by building with WordPress (not open source) and hoisting on Flywheel? Should I host on wordpress? Why? (We are getting ready to migrate 7 other sites to the flywheel hosting.)
I appreciate you confirming my suspicions. I thought that requesting google to reindex our site would have improved the 404’s.
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Hi @patriotbadass, the WordPress software is open source regardless of where you host it.
Do I still think you should host here? Of course we may be biased, but yes!
Our service includes fast and reliable SSL hosting, WordPress support, spam protection, backups, maintenance, security, and other services and features that don’t come with the free software. Basically, as a service, we’ll have your back in ways that the free software itself cannot. Our hosting is fast and very reliable, you’ll get direct WordPress help, and we have data centers around the globe. You can see our pricing here.
I understand Flywheel also offers managed WP hosting, too, so if want to compare features we’d be happy to help with that. The biggest difference I can see in their favor is that we don’t currently have a multi-site package, but in our favor, we do have plans that use our curated set of themes and plugins for simplicity. Those plans may be suitable for some of your sites, just depending on your needs. We’d be happy to help you decide.
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Thank yo soooo much for your responses. The deciding factor was the multiple websites and the easier interface. But I’ve only moved one site over so far. I will do some more research.
As for the indexing issue. We are three weeks into the new site. Our SEO is incredibly better than our shopify site. Our user flow and interface is incredibly better. Our user interaction was significantly more when the new site went live. We were at about 250-300 users per day. The users (clicks) per day as of the last three days are 7, 3, and now one user as of yesterday. This is getting scary. Anything I can do?
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Hi there!
Since your site isn’t hosted by us, we are limited in our ability to help, as we have no insights into your site. We do have some SEO suggestions that you can check out at the links below. Though they were written with WordPress.com sites in mind, you may find some of the tips useful.
WordPress.com is very search-engine-friendly by default. However, you may decide to perform additional optimization for your site or blog to control how your visitors find you through search engines. This guide covers tips for Search Engine Optimization, referred to as SEO for short. Table of Contents Appear in Search Engines SEO refers to techniques you can use to help ensure that yourOne of the most frequent questions our community members ask us — and themselves — is how to get more people to visit their site. There’s no magic formula, but there are ways to increase your website traffic with a few WordPress.com tools and best practices. Promote your content with Blaze You can use our built-in Blaze tool for advertising on WordPress.com and Tumblr in just a few clicks.Hope that helps!
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