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Yep they all re-direct.  I think this has something to do with putting the old urchin code from the .net on to the .com.  I'm going to see if it can be removed.  We were unable to figure out how to implement the .js to get a UTMZ cookie setup.

Let me also add that in Analytics I am seeing that now the traffic is back on the .net and no longer showing up on the .com.  I have no clue why this would happen.  It just dawned on me that my boss re-implemented our old urchin code on top of our new analytics code.  This corresponds with the time that the .com stopped showing results.  I can only assume this is what is causing the sudden drop off in traffic on the .com.

My only thought at this point is that someone else with access could have already made the change.  If that is true will the .net sites eventually go away?  Are they still receiving traffic because google just hasn't picked up all the redirects yet?  Thanks for all of your suggestions it is most appreciated

Thanks I have read all of that.  Not sure why I don't have the change of address option.  I am assuming because we launched with redirects already in place.  I added both the www and non-www versions and did choose preferred domain.  The .net www and non-www as well as both for the .com are still showing in webmaster tools if that is where you "select a site".

Redirects are all in place but when I go to do the change of address it says no change of address is pending.  I don't see any other options.

So my company has gone from .net to .com.  I have analytics up and running as well as WMT.  I noticed today that on the .com we only had 1 visitor yesterday and 0 today.  We have just put out a major press release as well as other PR related things and I'm only seeing slight traffic on the .net.  Any ideas?  What should I do with the .net in WMTs and Analytics?  Do I need to turn something off?  Is this normal behavior about a week into a migration?

Also I am being asked to check this against our old website which was a .net.  We have just migrated to a .com.  Is this going to yield mixed results?

What would be some better KPI's?  I've been asked to get the top 40 results that rank for hundreds of keywords.  Do you really want multiple pages ranking for the same keyword? Isn't that being in competition with yourself?

I know with ranktracker I can see a page that will rank for a certain keyword.  What if I have multiple pages that rank for this keyword?  How can I see all pages that rank for it?

I'm really upset, I have used it to work on a spreadsheet with thousands of words and today I decided to check and a keyword we rank #1 for showed as not in top 50.  This makes me very nervous.

Andrew thank you for your response.  Our next hurdle is that they are wanting to leave the .net up while the .com is also up.  Two different designs, similar if not the same content on every page.  I'm pushing for internal IP only testing then launch in the middle of the night so we can roll back if there are issues.  I mean with thorough testing there shouldn't be but I know anything is possible.

Hello everyone,

We are in the process of going from a .net to a .com and we have also done a complete site redesign as well as refreshed all of our content.  I know it is generally ideal to not do all of this at once but I have no control over that part.  I have a few questions and would like any input on avoiding losing rankings and traffic.

One of my first concerns is that we have done away with some of our higher ranking pages and combined them into one parallax scrolling page.  Basically, instead of having a product page for each product they are now all on one page.  This of course has made some difficulty because search terms we were using for the individual pages no longer apply.

My next concern is that we are adding keywords to the ends of our urls in attempt to raise rankings.  So an example: website.com/product/product-name/keywords-for-product  if a customer deletes keywords-for-product they end up being re-directed back to the page again.  Since the keywords cannot be removed is a redirect the best way to handle this?  Would a canonical tag be better?  I'm trying to avoid duplicate content since my request to remove the keywords in urls was denied.  Also when a customer deletes everything but website.com/product/ it goes to the home page and the url turns to website.com/product/#.  Will those pages with # at the end be indexed separately or does google ignore that?

Lastly, how can I determine what kind of loss in traffic we are looking at upon launch?  I know some is to be expected but I want to avoid it as much as I can so any advice for this migration would be greatly appreciated.

Hey guys thanks again for the help but I am still looking for some data to prove this point.  I have gone ahead and determined that the keywords we are currently using are placing us page 4 and below while our title tags are placing us higher.  If there are any other articles are hard facts on how this doesn't help in this scenario it would be greatly appreciate.

do you know where I can find data showing this?  will it actually hurt rankings?  I'm thinking it's going to make duplicate content.

That's the plan.  Our site has not been updated since 2011 so I'm trying to point out these issues and tackle them one at a time.  We are also double indexed with www and non and about to launch a new site that we will be redirecting to.  Lots of work ahead

Thank you.  This is what I was thinking but wanted to confirm my thoughts.

My company has previously added on extensions to a url like the example below

http://www.test.com/product-name/extra-keywords

My question is since there is no difference between the pages

http://www.test.com/product-name and http://www.test.com/product-name/extra-keywords and you don't leave the product page to reach the extra-keyword page is this really necessary?  I feel like this is probably not a best practice.  Thanks for any suggestions.

I have added hundreds of keywords to "Add and Manage Keywords" how do I get those over to Keyword rankings? Its showing 5 that I manually added.  Do I need to manually add them one at a time?  That seems a bit crazy.  Is there no way to import them over from add and manage?