: Recovery from URL structure change? in July this year, we have changed the URL structure of the website from: Post: domain.com/blog/post/986/dance/heart-beats-dance-video-by-chinatsu/ Category:
in July this year, we have changed the URL structure of the website from:
Post: domain.com/blog/post/986/dance/heart-beats-dance-video-by-chinatsu/
Category: domain.com/blog/index/cosplay/
to
Post: domain.com/dance/heart-beats-dance-video-by-chinatsu-986/
Category: domain.com/cosplay/
Everything was (supposedly) properly redirected with 301 redirects and it first seemed that the traffic returned after a couple of days, but it has now been close to 2 months and things keep going worse although Google is slowly indexing the changes.
What is worrying me even more is that the Pages crawled per day from Webmaster Tools started drastically dropping a few days ago and has just reached a new low in months (from over 2000 to 700).
Should I be worried or will things sort out eventually?
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If you have properly set up your 301 redirects (which must live forever), this is not reason you have a drop in visit and crawl. Is Google listing the new urls in the search results, when searching [site:yourdomain.com] ?
You may have changed something else in the site when you made the 301 too.
Also, you have to look at the last Panda and Penguin updates, you may have been penalized. You may use www.panguintool.com/ to check it easily.
301 should only be for temporary use. If you keep it active for several months Google will start to ding you for it. Your best bet would have been to setup historical aliases (eg, .htaccess rules) for the old URLs if you were hoping to retain lots of inbound link traffic where you can't get the origin links to your site updated.
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