Rankings plummeted... whhhaaaa!

[Punkaj]

Hey all,

I just came on as the SEO Specialist for an Ecommerce site a few months ago and have been working quite hard on getting things in order with the site's architecture, dup content, backlinking etc. Last week we made the move from 3 subdomains of a top level domain to subdirectories as the content/products are too much alike to be running subdomains. The way it's working now is when a request comes in to the old subdomain, the redirect to the subdirectory is happening at the htaccess file with a permanent 301.

That said, I got our SEOmoz ranking report today and we have plummeted all over the place keyword ranking wise. I am quite sure that it's due to the change in architecture that happened last week... but what do you all think? I would be appreciative of any advice or thoughts from the SEOmoz community.

Much thanks!

[EGOL]

If you 301ed last week there may be some normal instability in your rankings... but should recover soon.

Just to be sure that you didn't screw up go out and look at some of your old URLs to be sure that redirects are working properly.