Redirect 301 traffic drop 100% in 24 hours after Google Bot Visit

[Oimachi2]

I have implemented a 301 about 3 days ago.

It went from this:

http://www.example.com/static-page.html


to

http://www.example.com/joomlainstallation


I put the content of the old page on the index file of the new site so basically same content minus extra HTML ect....


My traffic has dropped 100%, nothing, zero, ziltch from about 20 unique visitors a day...

Google Bot was the ONLY visitor, since then nothing...

Is it because it will take a few days or weeks for the page rank and incoming links to get the traffic back?

Or should I just throw that page in the toilet and start link building on the new site?

[goodroi]

301 redirects dont typically kill all traffic. i would double check to make sure you did not accidentally add a meta robots noindex or something similar.

losing 20 visitors a day could also be explained by dropping from #1 to #10 in the rankings. google has been know to reward keywords in the url. there is a small amount of link evaporation with a 301 redirect. this could just be that you need some extra seo on that page.

have you double checked with a header checker to make sure the 301 is working properly?

[BenFox]

20 UVs a day is a pretty slim number so I'd guess it was a slip in rankings like goodroi suggested.

If it's a page that normally makes money then throw a few links at it and see what happens. If it happened on my site I'd write a blog post optimised to that term and see if I could get fresh content to rank for it.

[indyank]

and as Tedster always says, go to GWT and do try to fetch your .html page and see whether it returns a 301.

[Oimachi2]

Ooooops!

Actually my stupid mistake...

The new site is a templates website with over 1000 Joomla templates on live display, my find and replace was wrong and the stats code was not put on the new site properly...

So the redirect worked and 301 ok, just showed zero in the logs!

Thanks for the help to everyone