Traffic down 50% after 301 redirect

lorentzo · Sep 18, 2019

Hi,

I would like to ask if this is normal. I have one blog (WordPress on my website) under www.mysite.com/blog/article

I have deleted wordpress from my server as the blog is not used anymore and after that, i have redirected trough httaccess the old URLs to the main site. Basically, i did this

Redirect 301 www.mysite.com/blog www.mysite.com
Redirect 301 www.mysite.com/blog/article www.mysite.com

Is this the correct way to do it?

I'm experiencing a huge drop in serps and i dont know if it's a just a spike/dance.

Thanks,

Deleted member 1286974 · Sep 18, 2019

Hi!

It should be:

Redirect 301 /blog www.mysite.com
Redirect 301 /blog/article www.mysite.com

Cheers

safeSEOboost · Sep 18, 2019

seodaniel said:
Redirect 301 /blog www.mysite.com
Redirect 301 /blog/article www.mysite.com

This^^

In any case OP, what you did is delete content and pages (posts), so there is nothing really surprising to lose traffic. One way to investigate is to look in your analytics which URL used to get traffic (other than home page). Also look for what keywords you used to rank for (and corresponding URL).

Removing the blog is a risky move which should be only done for a good reason. Some people have done it successfully, but there is always a risk.

lorentzo · Sep 18, 2019

safeSEOboost said:
This^^

In any case OP, what you did is delete content and pages (posts), so there is nothing really surprising to lose traffic. One way to investigate is to look in your analytics which URL used to get traffic (other than home page). Also look for what keywords you used to rank for (and corresponding URL).

Removing the blog is a risky move which should be only done for a good reason. Some people have done it successfully, but there is always a risk.

I have modified the .httaccess now, I'm gonna wait a few days to see if it's coming back.

The point is - that blog wasn't getting traffic but had some decent backlinks with proper anchors to be redirected to the main page, so that's why i did it.

Thank you, time will tell from now on.

server230 · Sep 18, 2019

Really interesting topic.But I don't understand the whole code can some one post whole code.thanks

GregFromMoonsy · Sep 19, 2019

Yes, it's normal.

301 redirect moving ONLY backlinks power.
But previously you had posts which was in Google ranking.

After deleting all posts, this part of traffic disappeared.

Best regards,
Greg.

sin zala · Jan 26, 2020

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