Redirects done, Yet Traffic Fell By Half... Hmm

@chen.torres what did u end up doing in teh end

help!! my work pc is officially haunted

wait which version are you on?? ?

yeahhh make a backup before u touch the router, learned that the hard way. any update on this??

hmmmm quick q is redirects even worth bothering with or should i just leave it. pro tip: write down what u change. i didnt and had to redo migration from scratch

lol same thing happened to me make a backup before u touch the antivirus, learned that teh hard way lmk how it goes

@maya.koch did u ever fix it?. i swear seo is cursed ??

+1 same here worked for me anyway 🤷

@milah453 thank u this worked!!. honestly just reset the cache and save yourself teh pain

been there man first confirm its a real tarffic drop and not a tracking drop... compare Search Console clicks with analytics, if Search Console clicks are stable but analytics fell, the tracking tag is missing or broken on teh new templates. worked for me anyway 🤷

ahh classic have u checked your seo settings? mine were reset after an updtae

lol this thread is gold

ahh classic update internal links and sitemaps to point at the new URLs directly. relying on redirects for internal navigation slows down crawling and keeps the old URLs alive in Googles eyes. lmk how it goes

ok so told my boss it would take 10 minutes, its been 20 minutes

compare page templates before and after: did titles, headings, or main content get shorter or disappear behind tabs and scripts? A redesign that removes text from important pages can lower rankings even with perfect redirects. fingers crossed 🤞

check for staging leftovers: a <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> in the template, Disallow: / in robots.txt, or canonical tags pointing to the staging domain. these get cpoied over during launches surprisingly often and explain sudden drops.

wait what idk man that sounds like bad advice tbh

try turning off the extension first, fixed it for me fingers crossed 🤞

pro tip: write down what u change. i didnt and had to redo seo from scratch fingers crossed 🤞