My uniques have dropped around 25% since following advice here

[craven22]

Hi, since posting a few threads here and following instructions (post more unique content, link building etc) my website traffic has dropped by around 25%

My SERPS rremain pretty much unchanged. I'm posting tons more unique content. Am I just being penalised slightly because I've made drastic changes to my site (301 .com -> .co.uk) etc or am I doing something wrong?

[Dan-Petrovic]

301 redirects can  take time to be recognised. How long has it been since the directive was put in place? Have you checked that there is no problem with the way redirection was implemented?

[craven22]

Sorry forgot to mention my site:

ablemagazine.co.uk

[Tompt]

Dejan is right, a 301 for a complete site can take a while so that may well be the problem.

It could also be an effect of switching from .com to .co.uk, you are intentionally targetting the local audience over the international. That may well be what's important but it will mean you get less traffic from overseas, it might be worth taking a look at your analytics and seeing if that might be the reason.

[KeriMorgret]

What time frame are you looking at? Month over month? Year over year? Are there seasonal trends that may account for the change? The changes in domain using the redirect can have temporary drops in traffic as well.

In your analytics, look at various segments. What does the traffic look like from your target countries? How is traffic from each specific search engine? Is it search traffic that has declined? Or direct traffic? Or referral traffic? Or all of the above equally?

Is there anything of interest in Google Webmaster Tools?

[craven22]

Nothing major in Analytics. If anything my hits from the UK have dropped dropped and international hits have risen.

My impressions on google webmaster tools have dropped 21% (700,000 -> 550,000)

[craven22]

Just got my seomoz rank tracker stats through - So obviously I'm doing something right, maybe I should just give it another few weeks and see if it picks up again?

Last Week’s Ranking Changes

| | 5 Improved |   |
| | 0 Dropped |   |
|   |

12 Unchanged

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[KeriMorgret]

I'd say continue contributing unique content and link building from relevant sites, and hang in there a few weeks. The changes can take time to show up, and I am glad to see that some rankings for words important to you have improved.