I have a problem with moving my website from one domain to the other. My website was on the domain shapewear-test.de and I’m moving it now to the domain curveland.com. I made the move about a week ago and have seen a drop in traffic of about 90%.
This is how I did the move:
Old website was in Webflow
Created the new website in Webfolw
Replaced the old Webflow page with a Wordpress Installation with 301 redirects to the new domain
Indicated the domain move in the Google Search Console
The website has a new URL structure now. Previously the page was in German and now the main language is English. Meanwhile German is also available and I’ve 301 redirected all the pages from the old domain to the new German pages. Could this change in URL structure be the cause of the drop in traffic?
If it happened immediately, the problem isn’t SEO it’s either in;
Your source traffic
Your redirects, or
Your measurement
You can see Google has not updated its index yet- your original site still shows, so all of the same organic traffic would be coming. Were you running any ad campaigns that you halted? e.g. Google Adwords won’t follow redirects.