By JMowery on

I recently moved my site from WordPress to Drupal. I set up the correct aliases for all my previous articles, but none of the pagerank or anything is being carried over.

It is almost like all my sites previous content doesn't exist, and my pagerank has dropped to zero.

This is very very very very bad, and I need some help.

Again, I had all my articles on WordPress, but I moved them to Drupal, and I simply created the previous alias for the Drupal site, but it is almost like those pages don't exist.

I'm taking a huge loss right now and this could be catastrophic.

Why aren't the aliases working? I lost all my pagerank.

http://www.techindemand.com/2008/01/22/is-tiered-internet-the-last-straw...

That page used to generate a ton of hits for my site, but now, even the title when I search for it on Google is not being shown. It is scary. It is like only my new content is being indexed.

I really need an expert to help me asap.

Thanks.

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Comments

thepaul’s picture

thepaul commented

While the URL and content might be the same as before. The source code generated by Drupal is different than that of WordPress. I've read before that a site re-design (with URLs and content staying the same) can cause a site to be put in the "sandbox" temporarily.

Also, was there a period of time where your site was live, but the content did not exist (or did not exist at the original URLs)? If so, the googlebot most likely came by and couldn't find the pages... thus a temporary drop in PR.

I'm sure you will find this to be a temporary thing.

You might have better luck with this issue on a site like webmasterworld.com as I don't believe it has anything to do with Drupal specifically.

JMowery’s picture

JMowery commented

My content was down for about a week.

It is just really scaring me. It is just like none of my content ever existed on Google anymore.

dman’s picture

dman commented

Well, if the whole domain was unavailable or 404 when Google last came knocking, there's a good chance your history has been put on hold. Makes sense to them.
If your site comes back with (what looks like) brand new content ... well hey, maybe it looks like your domain was taken over by a squatter.

If your content was good, and the pagerank was earned by incoming links and good content, then it'll probably pop right back up next time the spider comes around.

Calm down, breathe. Pagerank happens from your content.

... unless you bought it by referral spam ;-) in which case you may have to do that all over again.

.dan.
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JMowery commented

No, i built up a PR of 4. Never did spam. Just hard earned stuff that too forever to write. It just makes me sad to imagine all the work I put in would just disappear.

It is like hours of hours of work for nothing.

I shall give it some time.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

The bad news is that it looks like Google has changed your status due to the site being down for a week. The good news is, you are not "gray-barred" - the PageRank toolbar is showing white, not grayed out - this is a status that is shown when Google is aware of the site and tracking it for content/updates/et cetera. It's generally the status given to new sites until the next PageRank toolbar export happens, so you might not see any changes until then, but at some point in the next few weeks I would fully expect your data to start returning to the index, particularly since your domain age has not reset to zero days or something (assuming that /was/ the case...) - that's something that factors into Google's respect of domains.. Good luck, man... I've had similar problems but in time all was restored!

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JMowery commented

This all happened because all of four months of data at my previous host magically disappeared. I had a backup from the previous month, but for some reason, all of my images were always corrupt. So, I had waited a week to decide if I was going to rebuild on WordPress or Drupal. I picked Drupal, but it took took awhile to get everything restored. It has just screwed everything up, as I had to move to Drupal before anything was finished, and now my site just looks like crap.

It has just been stressful, and the fact that Google hasn't indexed any of my previous content would have just been the knockout blow.

I'll be patient and hope for the best!

Thanks everyone.

@purrin

Hmmm, I will have to investigate...

I still am not turning up any search results, but if my pagerank is coming back, that is something to be happy for :)