wordpress.com -> www.ads-software.com traffic drop?

Did the structure of the site (URLs, code, etc.) change at all when you moved it, or is it exactly the same?

Also are you redirecting your old traffic to your new site?

@revium
code is pretty much the same. i downloaded the theme from the authors website and used that.

@ipstenu
i actually didn’t have enough to pay for the redirect. all i did was transfer the data then delete my old wordpress.com blog to avoid content duplication. i have a fanbase on facebook so that helps a bit.

i was wondering if google analytics is beter than wordpress jetpacks stats? which is more accurate?

I get wildly different stats between WP Stats and GA. I don’t know who’s right.

However I suspect some of the drop is people going to the old site and not finding you. Did you link back to your new site?

i actually deleted the wordpress.com blog since i was a bit scared that google wouldn’t index mo for content duplication or something since i moved the whole site. i thought about the redirect service they had but i couldn’t afford that atm since i just purchased a domain and hosting 2 weeks ago. if you visit the old blog deero.wordpress.com it says that i deleted the blog.

my visits are mostly from facebook and from people searching dees ro journal.

Deleting the .com blog and NOT redirecting is probably why people aren’t coming. Doesn’t matter that you posted on FB or not, people save URLs. The URL is gone, they are lost.

You could have wiped the content from your site and made the 404 page say “I’ve moved to…” and that would have been better.

i don’t think you can edit 404 pages on wordpress.com blogs. i should have just wiped the content like you said and made a single post that links to my new site.