Wordpress permalinks punishment...

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by mathias, Feb 19, 2008.

  1. #1
    Hello,

    like the title says, google punished me because I changed my wordpress permalink structure for 2 day's without knowing it! Before that day I got about 150 incoming visitors from google each day and now just 10! It's not really a disaster because most of my visitors (90%) are referred to my site but 150 extra visitors a day means a nice amount of extra money each month!

    Will this problem solve itself or what should I do?

    I'm talking about this site: http://phonuts.org/...

    Kindest regards!
     
    mathias, Feb 19, 2008 IP
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    astup1didiot Notable Member

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    301 redirect the old permalinks to the new ones via .htaccess
     
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    how do you know it was Google"""
     
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    I'm using google analytics and it shows the traffic coming from google... Thank you ssandecki, I'll try that! But I meant that I want to keep using the old links so I guess I'll just 301 redirect the accidentally created new ones to the old ones...
     
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    That is the most proper way to do it mathias.
     
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    Aaron111 Well-Known Member

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    I use Google Analytics as well it does the job overall
     
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    Thank you, this worked out great, I already have an increase of 40 visitors in one day using the 301 redirect... Thx ssandecki!
     
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    mathias can you pm the intro to doing this for my blogs???
     
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    No problem boss :)
     
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    Mathias I got the pm thanks Wp is truly a dynamic blog host
     
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