How to get back Traffic to my forum?

[crazyboy1661]

Hi there, recently I had changed my 2 year old domain name to a new one. all most My forum is running fine but I lost my traffic from 3k daily visits to 1k. Also it has been effected adsense/google bots, baidu, bingbot etc... What might be the cause and what steps to be taken to boost up my forum's traffic?

I need your valuable help and advice in this regard.

[xenite]

Most of that traffic may have been crawlers.

Make sure your robots.txt is up-to-date.

[smirkley]

It will take a few months for google to like you again.

[crazyboy1661]

Most of that traffic may have been crawlers.

Make sure your robots.txt is up-to-date.

User-agent:
Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /go/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /admincp/
Disallow: /modcp/
Disallow: /attachment.php
Disallow: /search.php
Disallow: /newreply.php
Disallow: /newthread.php
Disallow: /editpost.php
Disallow: /profile.php
Disallow: /register.php
Disallow: /login.php
Disallow: /subscription.php
Disallow: /private.php
Disallow: /report.php
Disallow: /sendmessage.php
Disallow: /member.php
Disallow: /memberlist.php
Disallow: /misc.php
Disallow: /moderator.php
Disallow: /postings.php
Disallow: /sendtofriend.php
Disallow: /threadrate.php
Disallow: /usercp.php
Disallow: /showgroups.php
Disallow: /announcement.php

Hi, this is what the code in my robots.txt file. Is there any other option to update it?

[Zachery]

Did you 301 redirect all of the old domain traffic to the new domain?

[crazyboy1661]

No Zachery, I am not aware about that 301 redirect. can you guide me if possible? or any link for tutorial?
thanks

[crazyboy1661]

Zachery, i have done it with the help of our hosting ppl. thanks.

[Bengie]

Send a newsletter to all you subscribers and let them know. There is a link in your ACP.

[crazyboy1661]

Send a newsletter to all you subscribers and let them know. There is a link in your ACP.

Hi, thanks for your reply. I have done it already. But I lost the traffic from search engines like google and bing, baidu etc... Before to dat there was 2-3k guest visits per day. But now it may be max 1k.

[alirex]

Hi, thanks for your reply. I have done it already. But I lost the traffic from search engines like google and bing, baidu etc... Before to dat there was 2-3k guest visits per day. But now it may be max 1k.

if all data is same except the domain , then u can redirect all traffic from old to new by putting / in the last

Generate one sitemap.xml from admincp

Submit it into google webmaster as soon as possible

and if u know any search enginer submission tool then do as well.

And wait for sometime all new domain are taking time to get indexed.

Good Luck for u.

[crazyboy1661]

if all data is same except the domain , then u can redirect all traffic from old to new by putting / in the last

Generate one sitemap.xml from admincp

Submit it into google webmaster as soon as possible

and if u know any search enginer submission tool then do as well.

And wait for sometime all new domain are taking time to get indexed.

Good Luck for u.

I have done as per your guidance. thanks very much. Now I am waiting for google's grace.

[xenite]

Hi, this is what the code in my robots.txt file. Is there any other option to update it?

Hm. :)

That's a little drastic but it should keep the well-behaved crawlers out of your forums.