Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
About two months ago we changed our site from hundreds of static pages on a directory to a Cms Drupal driven site.
Old site had a PR6 on most important pages and an average PR4 on others. Was very good in serps.
Changing to new site I read all the documentation and I did a .htaccess file with redirects 301. I did a specific 301 (follow semplified 301 code) for specific pages and a rewrite 301 for all the other pages. The redirects are working for the user: in first case when they call the specific old page they redir to new drupal page AND in second case when user call any other page of old site , it's redirected on new site homepage.
On Google site is very bad. PR when immediately to blank for about a month and then changed to ZERO! The traffic lost a lot and we lost pages in serp resoults :-(( I'm very sad about this also because I cannot update most important backlinks.
I've tried to disable few seconds the 301 and I saw that also old pages lost they pr. External backlinks are still in place to old pages
[edited by: Robert_Charlton at 6:31 am (utc) on Aug. 25, 2007]
[edit reason] removed specifics [/edit]
To bump up your post, and also to clarify an important point about your question... did you keep the same domain when you made these changes?
About two months ago (...)
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Two months?
Wait 4-8 more and see if it works.
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I mean even if you did the redirects without any major flaws, there are no chain redirects, site structure and funnels remained, the site itself is the same, on the same domain, the internal navigation is the same... it can take up to half a year to be fully recognized by Google.
Now, if any of these have changed...
It can take up to a year.
Submitting a corrected sitemap with the new URLs may speed this up.
I sure hope you don't have the old sitemap still in place at GWT...
As for PageRank...
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A lot of sites have PR0 for like 1-4 months now.
I don't see why you would bother getting worked up on that, if your pages rank, they rank, and that's that. ( Uh, do they? ) Toolbar PR is so slow to update that you really shouldn't use it as an indicator for whether your redirects kicked in or not.
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Just to make sure all you need to do is wait, you could look for:
- chain redirects
- loops
- out of date sitemaps / navigation / links
[edited by: Miamacs at 12:43 pm (utc) on Aug. 25, 2007]
The 301 redirect has been done on the same domain from a subfolder which before had hundreds of stati pages to a drupal site with seo urls.
It's a good note about the sitemap because it did have some old links to moved pages which I've updated , thanks
On Pagerank my thoughts are about the fact that it passed from unassigned to zero and ranking went down.
Pratically I had a folder with weekly window offers made in htm, doc and pdf by shop travel agents. I've implemented a cms for doing this and I made a 301 redirect from the folder of the offers (hundreds of well ranking files) to the new cms. Doing this I've got 0 pr on the cms pages and lost ranking.
Did I do something wrong?
thanks
