Panda Update 3.9 is live. Any major drops in the SERP? Any major changes for specific industry? It seems like, it heavily affected the pharmacy sites..
Well, no change in earnings last night (at least for Adsense, I didn't check Amazon yet). Most interesting, though, are my two experiment sites. Just checked my rankings for them and Site A has maintained its rank (the only backlinks are nofollow, I think, climbed to #4 1-2 months ago and then held solid on the basis of content). Site B has maintained its rank (#1), too, despite its spammy backlinks (as I mentioned, part of an experiment, although these might not be the reason for rank). However, I won't take any of this as a guarantee until tomorrow. All the search results seemed to remain the same, except for Site B (I climbed to #4 in the UK despite targeting USA). Reference for the Panda 3.9 update: Google Pushing Out Panda Update 3.9 Tonight
If this is true, what are the consequences of making a semi-major change to your site a week before the roll out? I changed my blog from a sub-folder to the root
As long as you redirected everything correctly, have no problems with site structure, canonicals are correct, and so on, you won't have a problem.
Ok, well i didn't do everything correctly, lol. I am not sure if this is a major update, but I do see page rank now for posts as late as the 24th of this month
If you do have problems due to errors in the migration, it won't be due to Panda (just due to not 301'ing a page and it's 404'ing instead, for example) and will be quickly resolvable. Don't worry. Just keep an eye on your server logs for 404s (as well as Google Webmaster Tools - crawl errors, etc)
Yeah, not blaming Panda. I tend to see Google as a gift rather than a right. If they send traffic my way I am grateful, if they don't send as much I try to improve.
the wordpress folder doesn't do a redirect (301). You can get plugins for Wordpress to help you do this, for example: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/ If you still have rank problems after fixing it all (remember to click fix under crawl errors in GWT) and think it might be Panda, read up on what Search Engine Land has been writing about Panda. You'll get a better understanding without all the hysteria.
I have a situation with that. All the posts redirect but not the folder where the site previously was. the problem is, because I moved from subfolder to root, if I do a redirect from what was once my home page, it affects my admin and plugins. If you have another suggestion I'd be grateful because I am not sure a plugin would help in this case
This should cover all your problems and provide solutions: http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress
I always see it that Google update constantly so I have to be on my game to stay where I am in the rankings. I haven't noticed any difference yet but thanks for letting us know.
I consulted that and it either doesn't address my issue or I am just not seeing it. Here's the issue... my site was at /wordpress and I moved it to the root by simply transferring the index.php and altering where from it should load wordpress. And that seems to redirect, properly, every post from /wordpress/postname to just /postname. But, in wordpress, the folder, there remains other important things like plugins and admin and that cannot be redirected, I think. So if I try to redirect just the original homepage at /wordpress with a 301, it also redirects all the files in there. I do not want that to happen. i want a way to just redirect /wordpress to .com
Once you've changed the URL structure, updated the settings (as mentioned on that page) you can then move the files. Do a backup first of course (the files and SQL).
That's the thing I don't want to move the files I want it to stay in it's own folder. Do you think dropping an index.php in the wordpress folder then redirecting that would work?