Setting Change To Permalink Hurt My Traffic
My website had a PR3 while it was up running for more than 3 months and i just got a PR4 in Feb 2008. Actually, it was not quite a long period of time as it keep growing up in its contents. Even though i’m not quite satisfy with it but yeah it is acceptable cos i didn’t run any campaign to raise the traffic to my website. All the traffic sources totally depend on the SE and it is all the SE who work for me (part of SE are links & receiptrocol links from others blogs and sites.)
It was a painful for me as i switch to the custom post permanent links. It was originally started with this post style http://www.piseth.info/2008/04/sample-post/ for several months (i guess almost a year) and in march i decided to hurt myself even though i knew that i'm gonna get hurt. What i did was i switched to the custom permanent link post where it looks like this http://www.piseth.info/%postname%/.
The purpose is to the attract the reader and it is the SEO way as well. So after i made this cool decision, the SE spider started to index my site again. I didn’t exactly what it was going on inside the algorithm but i lost lot of incoming traffic to my website. My cool decision hurt me to much…When i was trying to search for the actual keyword to my site, i saw them in the after i switched to the custom post permanent links. But it said, Not Found. Actually, the post is still there in my site but the permanent link has change that’s why visitor can’t read the post on my site that it used to be mydomain/year/month/posts/ but now it is mydomain/posts. It is shorter and easy to read and to type the link to the browser but as it is to reindex by the SE nobody will find me from the SE anymore like google, yahoo, msn,…etc.
Now, it’s like i’m building a new website again. But lucky me cos it left me with a PR4 to maintain a better growing traffic where i can start to rebuild it even better with the pain i got inside my website.
According to this experience of mine, i would advice you not to change your permanent links to your original post so often or not at all cos when you change that means the SE spider has to work all over again to reindex your site. Most of the traffic i got now just come from the links exchange or comment and directories only….
Tags: Links, permalinks, Planning, posts, traffic, Website
April 9th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
err haha… sorry to hear that
April 10th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Thank you icebreaker for expressing your feeling. Anyway, i hope to get it back as soon to stand in a better position. Cheers!
April 12th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Good and thanks for sharing experiences and give advice. that is important.
April 19th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Yeah! especially myself cos i experience its realistic. hehe…
April 21st, 2008 at 3:08 pm
So cool!