: Why did my new markup cause the site to disappear from Google? Unfortunately this post isn't about something as concrete as a bug, but it's been driving me nuts. I recently updated my blog's
Unfortunately this post isn't about something as concrete as a bug, but it's been driving me nuts. I recently updated my blog's theme and software (I basically rewrote it) from old.korokithakis.net/ to www.korokithakis.net/.
Yesterday, I noticed all my pages dropping from Google's search results. My Python tutorial used to be 3rd for "learn python" and now it's 30th, if it even appears on the list.
I've allowed robots, all the header tags are in place, titles are the same as they used to be and the URLs that changed have permanent redirects to the new ones (the tutorial URLs haven't changed).
Still, all my pages dropped from the results. What can be having such a huge impact on the rankings?
Thanks.
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You have also changed the URL pattern from /node/id to /post/title. That could be a reason. If that is the case you do not have to worry, your search rankings will go back to normal in few days.
You might find that it goes back up again after a while – how long since you changed? Sounds like you know what you are doing, and the new site looks nicer and the markup looks fine...
I'd probably change the robots.txt file on the old site to ban crawling to make sure that it's doesn't accidentally get indexed (you linked to it here for instance!), and make sure that you've got it registered on Google Webmaster Tools. It's worth having a sitemap.xml file that's registered in webmaster tools as well.
Weird though – I'd wait a little longer before worrying too much.
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