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traffic drop after moving to subdomain

         

rootegy

5:08 pm on Oct 22, 2019 (gmt 0)

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Hello,

My site was example.com but it got banned in one of my top traffic countries so i added subdomain video.example.com
within few days i noticed a huge decrease in traffic 40 ~ 50% drop in google analytics
also the results changed from video object to a normal web results

I don't know what i'm supposed to do now, some say i should wait a bit as i moved the subdomain 11 days ago and some say that the drop due to google current updates

goodroi

3:30 pm on Oct 24, 2019 (gmt 0)

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I don't understand. How was your main site example.com banned? Was this a penalty from Google? Did you create a duplicate site at video.example.com or did you close down example.com & redirected it to video.example.com?

tangor

12:13 am on Oct 25, 2019 (gmt 0)

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If the root domain was adversely impacted for whatever reason why would you think a sub-domain would prevail?

Color me confused.

nshep

9:39 am on Oct 25, 2019 (gmt 0)

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"Color me confused." < This got a chuckle out of me.

rootegy

2:05 pm on Oct 25, 2019 (gmt 0)

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it got banned from a specific country i mean

but subdomain can be considered as bypass so i set 301 redirect to the new subdomain