Domain Mapping With WordPress – Kiss Your Traffic Goodbye (in the short term) July 31, 2007
Posted by showmescifi in b5, babylon 5, blog, blogging, doman, doman mapping, exile, google, technorati, traffic, wordpress.7 comments
It’s been three weeks since we moved from showmescifi.wordpress.com to showmescifi.com – thanks to a WordPress domain mapping feature.
In principal it’s a great idea, a great service and is easily done. We had a small issue for a few hours when we didn’t realize that the existing mail server would no longer work – a friendly wordpress.com support person helped out and now email works (thanks to WordPress and Google Apps).
The only REAL problem for ShowMeSciFi is that since we’ve moved, traffic has been cut by nearly two thirds.
Why is that?
I’d speculate a number of things..i think we lost alot of our Google/Technorati juice for one.
Google and Technorati now treat us like a new site almost – with no history of authority and links.
It’s really quite unfortunate that such a great service can have such a negative affect on readership.
That said – we’re committed to building ShowMeSciFi and continuing to populate with the stuff that SciFi fans care about. Thanks for being part of the journey.
Show Me SciFi 