throwaway25239

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   by throwaway25239 6y ago

   It's the second one. Most of my previous traffic was from direct searches for the name of the software, so I think I'll try the social media approach - thanks!
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   by throwaway25239 6y ago

   So the old domain should have the same content as the new one? Right now, I have blank pages on the old domain with a canonical link and a redirect. I could try duplicating the content, but it seems like having duplicate content might cause
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   by throwaway25239 6y ago

   Bing/DDG has the site indexed correctly, and I get a decent amount of traffic from them, but Google's market share is large enough that it's not really feasible to just ignore them. (And I'm not buying ads on either one,
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   by throwaway25239 6y ago

   The old domain was a *.github.io domain (which I migrated to a custom domain), so I don't think it's possible to use my own server for it. Google did pick up the relationship correctly, at least in the beginning - the new domain g
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   by throwaway25239 6y ago

   Yes.
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   by throwaway25239 6y ago

   I think I actually read your post earlier when I was trying to figure this out, so thanks for that! The symptoms do seem pretty similar, although the fact that the timeframe is different makes me think it's a different issue. > The
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   by throwaway25239 6y ago

   Thanks for the suggestions. I think those 4 all look OK. The site content is purely static HTML (and some images) that hasn't changed significantly in months, so I'm guessing that's not the issue. I'd rather not post the
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   by throwaway25239 6y ago

   Sorry for not including this in the original post, but I did replace the old site with a set of redirects: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23884449
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   by throwaway25239 6y ago

   The old site was hosted on Github Pages, so there isn't a way to do a server-side redirect AFAIK, but I replaced each page on the old site with a client-side redirect in the following format: <link rel="canonical" hr
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    Ask HN: Google removed my site from search results, what can I do?

    128 points by throwaway25239 6y ago|53 comments