We recently migrated our site to discourse, and per recommendations moved our pages/topics to a subdomain, forum.mamapedia.com Unfortunately, so far, the pages are now nearly invisible in google, with no sign of recovery. I’ve posted a thread in google webmaster forum on the topic here: …

Update here, after waiting roughly 5 months for google to recognize our new subdomain we moved discourse back to our original forum subdomain, www.mamapedia.com . Within a few days things started to comeback to where we would expect and are still climbing. [Screenshot 2025-03-16 at 10.44.15 AM]

That sucks Jacob! Can you share an example of an old link that redirects? And checking, you did two things in one go right? Move from a different forum software (which one) to Discourse and Move from a subfolder to a subdomain

Also, when you say “completely invisible” you mean that they rank low right? Because they certainly are visible on google: Google Search

@Bas thanks for the response! Move from a different forum software (which one) to Discourse and Yes, and a custom rails application Move from a subfolder to a subdomain Yes The pages are not ‘completely invisible’, you are right, I updated the title of the post. But they are for all pract…

[이미지] Jacob Peebles: This is confusing, as google professes that a subdomain is ‘the same’ as a root domain so why did we get disappeared? Note that www.mamapedia.com is not the root domain - mamapedia.com is. It looks like you had the same content on both cdn. and www. - is it possible you …

Thanks for the response @supermathie ! Note that www.mamapedia.com is not the root domain - mamapedia.com is. Thanks for pointing that out, yes that’s correct. It looks like you had the same content on both cdn. and www. - is it possible you are/were penalised for that? No, fortunately we we…

A few observations, but nothing super actionable unfortunately. You would probably do well to engage an SEO specialist. It’s a fairly recent move, so things might just need some time Looking at your charts, somehow the total traffic (which is what I’m assuming is the second chart) seems to be very…

@Bas thanks for the response. To your points… It’s a fairly recent move, so things might just need some time Potentially, in some ways this would be good news, I guess the question would be only google knows, how long? Looking at your charts, somehow the total traffic (which is what I’m assu…

That makes two of us @Bas - it’s clear Google has somehow penalized the new subdomian despite the 301 implementation.

Update here. Our original domain, www.mamapedia.com continues to steadily pick up volume, stay consistent and deliver traffic on the original url’s still in the google index. The domain we moved to, forum.mamapedia.com , continue to decline in activity, with a handful of impressions a day, and it a…

www. 서브도메인에서 forum. 서브도메인으로 301 리다이렉트 시 페이지가 거의 보이지 않음

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Bas (Bas van Leeuwen) 1월 17, 2025, 3:42오후 9

Hey Jacob,

I’m at a bit of a loss unfortunately. As said above, I would advise you to engage an SEO specialist

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