Traffic cut in half after forward from wordpress.com

  • I had a site redirect from my old https://www.scotttraveler.wordpress.com site to https://www.scotttraveler.com and it expired while I was away on holiday. I forgot to renew it and it was down for a few months.

    I renewed the domain forward on 02 April 2014 and the next day (and every day since)) my site traffic has gone from about 600 hits a day to about 200 per day.

    It seems that Google thinks that I’ve done something fishy and they’ve cut my ratings in Google. I’ve gone to a few pages where I used to be on the first page and now I’m on 2nd or 3rd.

    Is there something I can do to fix this or should I just turn off the .com forward?

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  • You just answered your own question ( Site down). Ranking will fall if your website is down for a while and if it is down for months then Google will deindex your site. Surprised to hear you are still getting 200 hits /day.

    Thread Starter scotttraveler

    (@scotttraveler)

    Redirect service was down, not the site. The site has never been down.

    The redirect service was not working for a few months. During that time, the old wordpress.com site was up and running and the .com site was up and running. When I turned the redirect back on (wordpress traffic now directed to .com domain), traffic fell by half the next day and has been so since.

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