Huge Traffic Drop after 301, Keyword and Schema.org Fixes
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Hello there,
I'm first gonna explain what I did to my website:
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I was using a 302 redirect to send from http to https, fixed it to a 301.
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My url has a keyword and I was using many pages with keywords as well. ex) www.keywordhaha.com/keyword-the-best , www.keywordhaha.com/keyword-easiest-on-keyword-market
Changed it to : www.keywordhaha.com/app , www.keywordhaha.com/games, etc...
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I was not using any crawler tools, so I added Schema.org, Json-LD and rdfa-node, which are all working properly.
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Synced my page with our Google+ page, which was recognised by Google
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Added a proper logo and fb:admins, and was recognised by facebook.
After I did all this optimisations, I experienced an immediate traffic drop (10%) and my impressions/clicks according to the webmaster tools dropped 75%, in a 2 day period.
Any ideas where there could have been a mistake?
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Fixed!
Thanks
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I haven't!
That is probably the reason, I'll fix it and get back to you ASAP.
Thanks for the quick reply Mick!
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"Changed it to : www.keywordhaha.com/app , www.keywordhaha.com/games, etc..."
Did you 301 existing URLs to your new URL structure?
Have you checked what is indexed in Google with site:www.example.com, or site:www.example.com/directory?
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