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0 pointsxur1712y ago0 comments

Thanks, really appreciate it! It's been my side project for about 2 years now.

It really started to take off at the beginning of this year when I started to rank well for relevant keywords. This past summer, I switched domains to make it more memorable, and my ranking suffered pretty severely.

My rank in Google search never recovered, but my traffic from other sources / direct traffic has increased quite substantially such that this doesn't matter anymore.

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jonotron12y ago· 2 in thread

What was the old domain name?

xur17OP12y ago

http://abiteofpizza.com

Google analytics showed a decent amount of traffic from users searching for asliceofpizza, abitofpizza, etc, and I talked to some users that indicated they had trouble remembering the domain. Bought the new domain for ~$600 over the summer.

My direct traffic has increased a lot since then, so I'm inclined to say it helped.

halcyondaze12y ago

You redirect properly + submit to Google, etc? A proper redirect + submission should see a dip then recovery, not a persistent dip.

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