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    • wellnesswooz
      wellnesswooz last edited by

      We run a training center. We had 1 main website and 2 dedicated websites to certain themes. The 2 dedicated websites are older and the main website is about 6 months old. The 2 dedicated websites had a top 5 ranking for their most important keywords.

      2 weeks ago we imported all the content from the dedicated websites into the main website. Then immediately after we did a perfect 301 redirect of these websites to the main website. 2 SEO companies checked it for us and so I'm very sure this is done right. Google immediately caught this up and gave the main website a boost. We where in the top 10 for many important keywords for 1 week. The next week all our rankings dropped. We only have a top 50 ranking for 10 keywords. Before it was 75 keywords in the top 20.

      Do you know what could have caused this? Any suggestion, thought, ... is welcome!

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      • AlanMosley
        AlanMosley last edited by

        Can we see the website?

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        • wellnesswooz
          wellnesswooz last edited by

          Sure. It is www.wijss.com.

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