SEO traffic had significantly dropped
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I know this question has been asked before, but I'm hoping someone can address my specific issue.
We recently did a complete redesign of our site and moved it over to a new server. The site was even "down" for about a week, where we had a static splash page. However since relaunching (it's not been over two weeks) we've seen a significant drop in search engine traffic. We are using Yoast for Wordpress.
The site is The Tech Block. Could anyone see if there is something we're doing wrong?
Thanks
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Dan,
Thanks a lot for your help. I was under the impression that this setting would prevent everything from page2 onwards from indexing. Isn't that a bad thing? Don't I want all my pages indexed? Could you explain why? I actually read your articles many times, and it's great!
Thanks so much for your help!
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Hi - I think I just answered another one of your questions too
Here's one more thing...
You should noindex subpages. There's a lot of them in the index. Here's the settings.
For anyone else reading this, I mentioned in the other answer to also add %%excerpt%% to all the descriptions so there's a default meta description in there as well.
And check out my article on WordPress SEO.
-Dan
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Thank you so much!
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Category pages are fine to leave unchecked if they are well organised and you want them to be found in SERPs.
I would tick the tags like Irving suggested so they are hidden from SERPs - otherwise you'll get 1000s of low quality pages being indexed by Google.
Don't worry about using the meta keywords tag anymore, like Irving said, it's dead and isn't a factor in the SEO algorithm anymore.
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What would you recommend? Sorry, I'm not SEO expert like you are! But I really appreciate the help.
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if you don't want the page indexed like the tag or category pages check it. confirm in your source code that it is showing up properly too
unchecked on the meta keywords tag, that tag is dead
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Should noindex, follow be checked or unchecked?
should "Use meta keywords tag" be checked?
Thanks so much for your help
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Should noindex, follow be checked or unchecked?
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your tag pages are getting indexed, they should be noindex follow. get the yoast SEO plugin for wordpress and manage your noindex and canonical tags so that you aren't spamming google with pages of low quality and duplicate content
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I do not believe the new site structure has changed. For instance, if you click on a link prior to the site update, it still brings you to the proper page.
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Of course it dropped, you deleted your site. The old site should have stayed up until the new one was rolled out.
There are so many factors that could have caused your drop in a site redesign, without seeing the old site and new site it's hard to make a determination just on a URL, but did the URL structure change and if so did you 301 redirect?
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