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> I would recommend going through old access logs to find what your old URLs were, and redirect them to the new URLs for that same content (not a wildcard redir

> I would recommend going through old access logs to find what your old URLs were, and redirect them to the new URLs for that same content (not a wildcard redirect to homepage!) this is great advice and I've done that as much as possible. Herewith a giant file of redirects! https://github.com/johnnyreilly/blog.johnnyreilly.com/blob/main/blog-website/api/fallback/redirects.js https://github.com/johnnyreilly/blog.johnnyreilly.com/blob/m...

jacobsimon 4y ago
Which pages or queries in GSC specifically lost traffic? Was there a handful of keywords that drove most of your traffic that you’ve lost? Or is it down across the board for all articles?
- johnny_reilly 4y ago
  I still get traffic, but for things like a webpack define plugin post I wrote in 2017 and for 2 CSharp posts. "eslint for c#" and "build props" All my Azure / TypeScript / React / Bicep traffic dried up. No idea what replaced me.
  - jacobsimon 4y ago
    It’s a bit annoying but you should be able to see in GSC what the ranking change was for particular URLs and queries by comparing before October and after October. You should also be able to see if the issue is whether the pages dropped in ranking or if some articles became de-indexed entirely. Take one of the page URLs that has dropped in traffic and make sure it’s still being indexed.
  - supermatt 4y ago
    The people that mirror your content would have replaced you. Try searching for a few page titles in quotes, you will easily find the culprits then. The problem is that now they will now have "older" content than you, so search engines may think you are copying content and penalise accordingly. EDIT: Heres a random example from a title taken from your blog archive: https://laptrinhx.com/using-bootstrap-tooltips-to-display-jquery-validation-error-messages-471001186/ https://laptrinhx.com/using-bootstrap-tooltips-to-display-jq... Heres another from some recent content: https://blog.logrocket.com/docusaurus-using-fontaine-reduce-cumulative-layout-shift/ https://blog.logrocket.com/docusaurus-using-fontaine-reduce-... Both mark themselves as canonical (the original source of the content) in the head.
    - johnny_reilly 4y ago
      Fascinating - in the case of LogRocket, they are the canonical and my blog reflects that too. The other is clearly not...

jacobsimon 4y ago

Which pages or queries in GSC specifically lost traffic? Was there a handful of keywords that drove most of your traffic that you’ve lost? Or is it down across the board for all articles?

johnny_reilly 4y ago
I still get traffic, but for things like a webpack define plugin post I wrote in 2017 and for 2 CSharp posts. "eslint for c#" and "build props" All my Azure / TypeScript / React / Bicep traffic dried up. No idea what replaced me.
- jacobsimon 4y ago
  It’s a bit annoying but you should be able to see in GSC what the ranking change was for particular URLs and queries by comparing before October and after October. You should also be able to see if the issue is whether the pages dropped in ranking or if some articles became de-indexed entirely. Take one of the page URLs that has dropped in traffic and make sure it’s still being indexed.
- supermatt 4y ago
  The people that mirror your content would have replaced you. Try searching for a few page titles in quotes, you will easily find the culprits then. The problem is that now they will now have "older" content than you, so search engines may think you are copying content and penalise accordingly. EDIT: Heres a random example from a title taken from your blog archive: https://laptrinhx.com/using-bootstrap-tooltips-to-display-jquery-validation-error-messages-471001186/ https://laptrinhx.com/using-bootstrap-tooltips-to-display-jq... Heres another from some recent content: https://blog.logrocket.com/docusaurus-using-fontaine-reduce-cumulative-layout-shift/ https://blog.logrocket.com/docusaurus-using-fontaine-reduce-... Both mark themselves as canonical (the original source of the content) in the head.
  - johnny_reilly 4y ago
    Fascinating - in the case of LogRocket, they are the canonical and my blog reflects that too. The other is clearly not...