Hey, I am ranked nationally for very competitive terms on all major search engines. Recently, I 301'd all my pages to a new domain, it is all the exact same content plus some more and a way better site/domain name, etc...anyway, the 301's were done 1:1 with c0ontent,.....i must of redirected 50 dif. urls to their url on the new site. Anyway, I lost all my rankings and everything...anyone have this problem be4? If so, did it come back once google passes the link juice or what? I am kinda worried here.
Yea, thanks guys. I 301'd everything on a 1:1 basis...just dropped and was wondering as well, how long until the rankings come back?
Reindexing might take some time. Maybe 1 - 3 days. Sometimes, it can take 2 - 3 weeks too. I've done this on my blog too.
Right, give Google some period to re-index your site. Of course, you could resubmit your new site and its sitemap to google via google's webmaster tool! Have a nice day,
Don't Worry Redirection take some amount of time Google reindex your site and you will get your ranking and index very soon.....
You have to understand how 301s work to understand why your rankings dropped. They will, however, return. 301 Redirects: How the Search Engines Respond to Them: Say you have a page at OldURL and that page has 100 inbound links that Google knows about from other sites. They maintain this information in a Citation Graph or Link Graph. It's basically a database of who links to who on the web... A database where each row has SourceURL & TargetURL to indicate URLA links to URLB, respectively. This means that in their link graph they have entries for 100 inbound links to OldURL similar to: URL1 --> OldURL URL2--> OldURL ... URL100--> OldURL Then assume that you put a 301 in place from OldURL to NewURL. The next time that Google crawls one of those 100 URLs that link to your OldURL (URL1 for example), they will recrawl all of the outbound links from URL1 to verify they are still valid so that they can update their link graph. This means they will follow the link from URL1 to OldURL just to see what kind of HTTP Status Code is returned (200=Page is still there, 404=Page doesn't exist, 302=page has temporarily moved, 301=page has permanently moved, etc.) When they follow that link from URL1 to OldURL by requesting OldURL, your webserver will now return a 301 Permanently Moved status to inform Google that the page has been permanently moved to NewURL. Because the status says the page has permanently moved, that tells Google they need to update their index and link graph. When Google discovers the 301 they replace the OldURL with NewURL in their index and give NewURL credit for that 1 link pointing to OldURL by adding it to their link graph (URL1--> NewURL). So OldURL doesn't exist in their index anymore... It's been replaced by NewURL. And all entries for inbound links to OldURL that used to exist in their link graph have been deleted from their link graph. At this point they only know about 1 inbound link to NewURL. So their link graph looks like: URL1 --> NewURL So your rankings will tank... Tomorrow if they crawl another page that links to OldURL (URL2 for example) then they will again recrawl that link to verify it is still good. When they request OldURL they will again receive a 301 status with NewURL as the new location. Since NewURL is already indexed, they simply transfer credit for the link from OldURL to NewURL by adding a new entry to their link graph to record that URL2 links to NewURL. So now the link graph looks like: URL1 --> NewURL URL2 --> NewURL This continues until all of the web pages (on your site and other sites) that link to OldURL and the links from those pages to OldURL have been recrawled, the 301 discovered for each of those links, and their link graph updated at which point the link graph will look like: URL1 --> NewURL URL2 --> NewURL ... URL100 --> NewURL This can take a month or two sometimes... because it totally depends on how frequently Google crawls each of those sites/URLs that link to OldURL. Some sites might get recrawled daily in which case credit for those links will be transfered quickly but other sites may only get recrawled once every 4-6 weeks if they rarely update content and/or have very few inbound links. So it can sometimes take a month or two for your rankings to fully return. So basically you have to wait for Google to recrawl every inbound link to your site before your rankings are going to come back. But they will return. Similar processes are done at other engines like Yahoo! although Yahoo! doesn't remove the old URL from their index necessarily... Google does.