: How much time does it take Google to learn from 301 and canonical? I recently setup a new domain for my blog - and in an attempt to maintain rankings, I setup (a) HTTP 301 redirects from

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I recently setup a new domain for my blog - and in an attempt to maintain rankings, I setup (a) HTTP 301 redirects from my old pages to the new ones (b) also updated a backup copy of my blog that was on GitHub pages (and some people used that, too) so that <link rel="canonical" href="..." /> entries point to my new pages (as the "master copies", so to speak).

It's been a week since I setup the 301 redirects - and two days since the canonicals... My rankings on significant keywords have vanished (I used to appear 2nd or 3rd in the 1st page of Google results, now I am nowhere to be found). Even sadder, when googling for my name (which is front and center on the blog) the top result (which used to result to my old blog - the one that now has the 301s) is now... the GitHub one! As if the new domain is somehow, blacklisted...

Searching in the dark... could it be because my TLD is a .space one?

It's not about speed, since I also used Cloudflare to speed up my site - so this can't have to do with performance either (the site is basically a bunch of static files, cached by Cloudflare - really fast responses).

How much time does it take for Googlebot to understand "equivalence" (that is, 301s and canonicals)? Is it normal that one week later, I've pretty much disappeared from the web and lost all my rankings?

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