New website & the dreaded drop in rank & queries.
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It's been 18 days since I launched my new website, how should I wait be fore I start to worry. Is it natural for this kind of drop, should I go back to my original splash page?
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Welcome to Q&A, Kristopher.
We're so glad to have you here. Sounds like you are making lots of efforts to do the best you can for your business. As Chad says, above, this will take time. Hang in there!
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Hi Miriam,
I am new to the forum, I didn't know the Vertical was for local listings. My locals are great, have been for years:-) & as of today my organics are back & better than ever.
While transferring my files from the old site to the new site I neglected to add my H1 H2 tags to my home page. YIKES! Also I changed my title & description during this down time. After I made the switch, Google started using the DMOZ snippet instead of my description. I took this as a sign that Google wasn't please with my description, this is not always true.
Anyways, I took some time to do some more work, incorporating some Schema code, adding a rel author, cleaning up content & keywords. Things are looking good for next year!
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Hi Kristopher,
The more information you can provide us, the more helpfully we can answer your question. Please, tell us as much as you can about scenario. As you've chosen the Vertical SEO category for your question, is your business a local business? Have you been starting to work on citations? What else can you tell us about your site?
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Take a deep breath. Your gonna be fine. Check the cache date. cache:your domain.com and see when it was indexed or if it even has been. Make sure you have all your ducks in order and just relax- it won't happen overnight.
I relaunched on a new platform June 18, 2011 and thought it was the end of the world. It took a good 60 days for things to normalize again but then we really started working.
Good luck.
Chad
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Could you give us your website URL?
When did you see the drop in traffic?
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