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Hi All,
Looking for some input here on a strange situation. So - I moved a site over to a new url. Website was ranking #1 in local but pretty poorly organically. Client has Tons a reviews while competition has 0-2.
Launched new site on new url, set up redirect on old url. Sprung to first page organically quickly. About 2 months later organically still doing good but Local search plummeted on 10 plus key search terms. Now now we are nowhere to be found locally. Researching what could be the cause log into Search Console and see 23k 401 errors to all of these type of pages: Viagra-brand-name-vs-generic-bzvg/.
I know his old site was hacked a long time ago and had a dmca complaint from bad content. 2 of the reasons I changed content and moved the site to a new url. So are these 23k 401's the reason for the local plummet? If so my plan was to 410 all of these urls (would that be best?)
BUT how do I download all 24k errors? Search Console only let's me do 1000 at a time? Any idea?
Also is this what you think the problem is?
One other funny piece of evidence is the redirect from his old root domain to the new one has 10k plus hits (according to redirection) which is way out of line with his traffic. Looking through the redirection logs for his root domain "/" I see bing bot and yahoo bot are continually trying to go to sites like: Viagra-brand-name-vs-generic-bzvg/ all the time.
I want to reduce the 24k 401's but also need to get to the source of the problem which may or may not be all these Viagra hacked URL be picked up by the crawlers.
Looking for advice here.
Thank you!
Ted
Looking for some input here on a strange situation. So - I moved a site over to a new url. Website was ranking #1 in local but pretty poorly organically. Client has Tons a reviews while competition has 0-2.
Launched new site on new url, set up redirect on old url. Sprung to first page organically quickly. About 2 months later organically still doing good but Local search plummeted on 10 plus key search terms. Now now we are nowhere to be found locally. Researching what could be the cause log into Search Console and see 23k 401 errors to all of these type of pages: Viagra-brand-name-vs-generic-bzvg/.
I know his old site was hacked a long time ago and had a dmca complaint from bad content. 2 of the reasons I changed content and moved the site to a new url. So are these 23k 401's the reason for the local plummet? If so my plan was to 410 all of these urls (would that be best?)
BUT how do I download all 24k errors? Search Console only let's me do 1000 at a time? Any idea?
Also is this what you think the problem is?
One other funny piece of evidence is the redirect from his old root domain to the new one has 10k plus hits (according to redirection) which is way out of line with his traffic. Looking through the redirection logs for his root domain "/" I see bing bot and yahoo bot are continually trying to go to sites like: Viagra-brand-name-vs-generic-bzvg/ all the time.
I want to reduce the 24k 401's but also need to get to the source of the problem which may or may not be all these Viagra hacked URL be picked up by the crawlers.
Looking for advice here.
Thank you!
Ted
