Blogger-WordPress Switch Caused Big PR Drop? (4 to 0)

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by airraid81, Jan 14, 2008.

  1. #1
    I switched from Blogger to WordPress at the start of the year. I tried to keep the permalinks, the same, so I used the same structure as in Blogger. Some of the posts with long titles would have had their links change becuase Blogger limits the length of links, but WP doesn't.

    However, I'm sure there weren't enough changes of permalinks to drop the PR from 4 to 0. I have 936 links as indexed by Google (sorry, I don't have the preswitch number, but I'm sure it isn't much more than the low 1,000's.)

    Yahoo gave me 933 links. Now, I know that's lower than before. I was in the 2,000's or 3,000's.

    Is that just a natural fall for losing that many links, or is there something else behind it?

    Should I go back and try to fix as many permalinks as possible for the next update?

    For the record, the drop hasn't affected me in SERPS for my targeted keyword.
     
    airraid81, Jan 14, 2008 IP
  2. godmode

    godmode Well-Known Member

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    #2
    Even if your permalink structure has changed, i guess while making the WP switch you could have made 301 redirects to new permalink?

    Let me look around some blogs which lately migrated to WP. I was thinking to do the same sometime soon.
     
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  3. airraid81

    airraid81 Active Member

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    I didn't do that because I post every day, so I didn't think it would be a big enough problem to have to fix/redirect every link. With 300+ posts, it would have taken a while to look into that. I fixed the most popular links, but I guess I'll go do more now.
     
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    godmode Well-Known Member

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    I guess while doing the switch its done automatically? Please check the procedure to migrate blogger blogs to WP. Am sure i read it that way
     
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    Err.. I think you maybe confused?

    Permalinks are your URL structure in either Blogger or Wordpress. What affects your Pagerank are the inbound links to your blog and NOT the permalinks.

    So if you switched from Blogger to Wordpress, you would've lost all the 'votes' that you received previously because the original links are still pointing to your Blogger site and not the new Wordpress one.
     
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    Dude, thats what we are discussing here. Doing a 301 redirect from old blogger link to new WP link.
     
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    Maybe you have a penalty because there is no reason to drop PR just for changing blogging platform.
     
    skweb, Jan 15, 2008 IP
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    I think it's a duplicate content issue... Google never handles a switch very well... I had the same problem with one of my blogs... 6 months later it's still got no PR
     
    haggisv, Jan 17, 2008 IP
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    It's not duplicate content. I deleted the old blog. I think the reason is my link profile cuz I exchanging links with a lot of off topic sites.
     
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    I did the same thing... trouble is google still has the old blog in it's index... takes a long time for google to realise the old blog is actually gone... an there is no way of telling google you've simply moved it...
     
    haggisv, Jan 19, 2008 IP
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    Of course switching form blogger to your own domain will cause a PR change.
     
    Gatorade, Jan 21, 2008 IP