I had my own domain name using Blogger and just recently set up Wordpress on my own hosting and moved the domain to the new wordpress site. I imported all of my old posts, kept my tags, descriptions, etc the same. Before I moved, I was ranking in the top 10 for most of my keywords I was going after. Since moving the blog, I don't rank at all for anything. I'm still indexed in Google, but my blog is just gone from the SERPS. I've done some link building since then to see if it would pop back up on the radar and I'm not sure what to do next. I've never moved an entire site to a new host and format before, so maybe this is normal, but I'd like to get my positions back one day. Also, none of my new posts are showing up in Google, even for long tail keyword phrases. Any suggestions on what I might do SEO wise to get things rolling again.
That's quite normal. It will take some time before regaining your SERP. Did you deleted your old blog? Otherwise Google will see your new blog as a duplicate content. I'm not sure if a Blogspot blog could be redirected (probably not) so you will have to delete it altogether.
Yeah, I deleted the old blog so to avoid the dup content. It stinks posting 2 posts everyday, and they don't even show up for non-competitive keyword phrases. I like Wordpress, but I'm bummed that I had good positions and now they're not showing. I guess once again, patience is the key.
People don't understand "duplicate content". I reuse content on my sites all the time. And they rank just fine. Duplicate content is NOT a penalty. It merely means that Google will choose to display the site with which it thinks is the most relevant displaying that content. And when you move sites, things have to be recrawled and rescored. I've moved several of my own sites, even those with top 10 rankings and they reappear just fine.
According to your post he should rank N1 and N2 for moving the blog from Blogspot to WordPress. christian231, don't worry. Give it a month or two. Keep writing original content and build quality links. You will rank high again but you should first regain the authority you lost for changing the domain.
Hey good news. It's back in the top 10 for a couple of my key phrases. And my individual posts are starting to show again. On the right track again...nice!