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I deleted the all old files but the inde.html and stated that the site moved to a new domain.
I uploaded the files to the new given directory and kept the old index for one week.
Before the move, the site was a PR5. Within a couple of days google found the new location and indexed most of the pages. The new site was PR0 with white bar.
I was pack in the serps but a lot lower and the old site was still there and remained a PR5.
I then emailed all sites linking to me and asked them to change the URL. A week later old site was gone from Google serps. Yahoo and others are still serving old URLs :(
In the main time I optimized the site a bit better and added several new pages. By that I mean, I renamed the files to discription-keyword.html
After the recent PR I'm back to PR5 but absolutely 0 traffic from SE's. Its been a bout a month and a half like this.
The new URL is in dmoz, google dir, looksmart and zeal.
The only way to find the site in google is to use the URL in the search. :(
The old directory is completely gone
I don't link to bad neighborhoods, nor they link to me.
This is an informational site with lots of text and images.
Index is a PR5 and other pages 4,3,2,...
The site is about 100 pages
I don't sell anything on the site
I don't have any tricky redirects or spam.
However, it appears I'm being filtered out from google for something.
I wasn't even in the top10 before the move (page 6) for my main keyword.
Many of you said your sites have dropped and then went back. Obviously it was a bad timing for me moving the site, as I was not aware of all the google updates going on at the time.
It's still a PR5 and google spiders it often but I'm still at 0% traffic from any search engine (since Jan)
What do you recommend I should do? Thank you in advance for your help.
Having changed filenames means that the same content is for all appearances on new pages. That's a little more difficult. Were there a *lot* of them, and can you do a permanent redirect from the old pages to the new?
