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So I have a site that was getting about 200 hits (not a lot). They came to me and asked to do SEO. There were over 50 pages in HTML format so I created header/footers and changed the .html pages to .php. I set forwards up in the htaccess and everything. I did everything that I was suppose to. Now when I go to the analytics it almost looks like it lost all it's traffic from the keywords it was ranked in. Any ideas on why?
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Without looking at the actual pages to see if your headers and footers are set up properly, my guess would be that the "new" pages have not been fully indexed yet. Though, the 301 redirects in htaccess should make that less of a problem. They are 301 and not 302 or anything else, right?
Make sure that each page has a unique title tag and meta description. If you used a common header on each, a mistake many people make is not setting it up so that each page has its own unique title.
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lol..that happened to me once. Glad that you realized what you did.
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I actually feel really stupid When I moved it over I forgot to put the analytics. It was driving me absolutely NUTS! Thank you so much for your response.
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It is impossible to comment without more information.
A transition that is done correctly will not have any decrease in ranking. At least, that is my experience.
- Can you supply a URL we may see?
- Are the htaccess rules correct? (Dump the file to pastebin for us)
- Why save the .php extension? (Just curious, unrelated)
- Are there differences between what you see now and what would be in your backup? From what you said it looks like only the URLs changed. Please note anything else that would look different if you were to view the source code.
I'd be glad to help you further. Look forward to your answers!
Cheers.
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