Redirection Ranking Drop

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I have a blog website that rank homepage on g first page, after I moved the domain, my homepage gone, now ranking blog post not homepage at g fifth page for the same keyword. What goes wrong? It has been more than a week
 
Gotta 301 redirect, make sure it's not 302.

If the target domain is brand new it'll take a few months to get your rankings back.
 
yes it's 301 from htaccess, few months? that's too long

Brand new domain?

You can expect a month to a few months, yes.

If it's 100% white hat, create a webmaster tools profile for it and add sitemaps, etc, and if possible verify the previous property and indicate a address change.

That's all you can do to speed it up.

Unless of course the new site goes viral on social media and you get it famous within 24 hours, that also works.
 
Gotta 301 redirect, make sure it's not 302.

If the target domain is brand new it'll take a few months to get your rankings back.

Is that something new? I have not done any redirects for a while, but i remember it always took few days to a couple weeks for rankings to transfer.
 
Is that something new? I have not done any redirects for a while, but i remember it always took few days to a couple weeks for rankings to transfer.


Honestly, no, and it depends on a number of factors too. Age of the redirected site, what you're pushing towards the redirect, etc.
 
Is that something new? I have not done any redirects for a while, but i remember it always took few days to a couple weeks for rankings to transfer.

The old rankings will redirect to the new site, so you don't immediately lose the traffic, but there's a period in between when Google has detected that all your pages 301 and when it begins to show the new domain. It might show the old domain for months.
 
This could be the reason why you lost your ranking:

"...John Mueller of Google went on record that when you do 301 redirects of many or all of your old internal pages to your home page, Google will treat those redirects as soft 404s. Which means, essentially, Google will ignore those redirects, not pass the PageRank and signals from the old pages to the new page."

https://www.seroundtable.com/301-pages-home-soft-404-22811.html
 
If it's a gray hat you'd probably rather not use your main G account. Anyway good luck, hope it works.
Thanks for the reminder, I didnt use my main account for any blackhat activities, I knew the rule is one account for one wmt
 
This could be the reason why you lost your ranking:

"...John Mueller of Google went on record that when you do 301 redirects of many or all of your old internal pages to your home page, Google will treat those redirects as soft 404s. Which means, essentially, Google will ignore those redirects, not pass the PageRank and signals from the old pages to the new page."

https://www.seroundtable.com/301-pages-home-soft-404-22811.html
I did not redirect internal pages to homepage, I moved from old domain to new domain without modifying the structures, the homepage have blog posts where I rank for many keywords
 
i also see drop after penguin 4, i redirect old page to new domain, before penguin 4 its has 5 rank, after update my website is under 10 page
 
What I have done in the past and worked great:

- Keep the old domain but install the website with the new domain too.
- Make sure to have the website in webmaster tools.
- Create canonical URL on your old domain linking to the pages of the new domain.
- Once your new site has pages getting indexed (new) you start throwing the 301.

PS: it works with a website with 0 to few backlinks.
 
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