95% drop in traffic after moving to a new domain

[katanka]

I recently moved my site from one domain to another. I installed permanent redirects per page, and i also did setup the transfer in GWT.

However, my traffic has decreased about 95%. I did a reconciliation request, but Google said there were no SPAM penalties against my site.

When i check ratings with open site explorer the old domain has a domain authority of 27/100 and shows links from 18 domain,s whereas the new domain has an authority of 10/100 and only shows 2 root domains linking to it.

Could these data explain the drop in SERP in Google? Any suggestions?

[tedster]

I don't know how OpenSiteExplorer deals with 301 redirects, but there's a very good chance it doesn't include them in the anaysis.

This is the first report I've heard of this much traffic loss after redirecting to a new domain. Have you verified that the redirect is technically correct - that is, a 301 status is returned in the HTTP header? Also, how long ago did you make the domain name change?

[Planet13]

Absolutely double check for technical errors. use fetch as googlebot or http live headers and go to your OLD pages and ake sure it shows the proper redirect.

I don't know how often open site explorer updates there database. It may be a while before it shows the 301 redirects.

Double check your new site to make sure you don't have pages blocked by robots.txt and that you don't have any meta noindex tags.

If all else fails, go to the google webmaster tools forum and you can post a URL to your site and you can ask people to look at your site for problems (Because you can't post URLs to sites here).

[superclown2]

How long ago is "recently"? Sometimes traffic drops after a 301 and then comes back a few days later.