Traffic Crash after Transfer Blog to New Domain

  • I have purchased a new domain for my blog and made it the primary one (thailandredcat.com, before it was redcat-travel.com it’s still active for another 2 months). I have changed the WordPress URL and Site Address in wordpress general settings and resubmitted the sitemap with the new URL. That’s all I have done.

    This was one month ago and since then the traffic is now totally down, from more than 1,000 pageviews a day to now not even 200.

    If I google search “thailand redcat” not even one of my pages shows up. The sitemap however has successfully been submitted:
    https://thailandredcat.com/sitemap.xml

    Do you know what could be the reason for this and how can I solve the problem and get the search results and eventually traffic back to normal again?

    Any help would greatly be appreciated. Cheers!

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  • That’s quite a big drop after a few weeks of increased traffic. It will be interesting to see how it goes after setting-up the the domain redirect.

    Thread Starter stefanredcat

    (@stefanredcat)

    No change in traffic so far. I just remember one thing: About the same time that I done the domain transfer I have installed a “Mobile Theme Switcher” plugin. Do you think such a plugin might be causing a decline in traffic? I will turn it off now and see if it has any impact.

    Usually a mobile theme changer doesn’t make a difference with regards to SEO, but it’s hard to know for sure. If you want to be mobile friendly, you should consider changing the theme to a responsive one. There are a few free options and plenty of premium themes too.

    Changing themes is simple, but making your site look like you want it to might take time.

    I think you should give this a few weeks, possibly even a couple of months. You can guarantee a return to the same amount of traffic after such a big more. Keep working on your new site and promote it through social media and whatever methods you were using before.

    Thread Starter stefanredcat

    (@stefanredcat)

    Alright, thanks again for the tips. I’ll keep the Switcher Plugin turned off a week or two and if it doesn’t make any change I turn it on again and just be patient while continue working on the site.

    Thread Starter stefanredcat

    (@stefanredcat)

    It seems the traffic has recovered! After having had daily page views of less than 200 on average for the past 8 weeks, since 4 days it jumped back to more than 1,000. Seems the pages are ranking the same like before. Hope it stays like that ??

    Excellent news! I hope it stays that way too ??

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