Social Media Examiner | Can a Wordpress theme change cause a drop in traffic? | Topic Replies http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/can-a-wordpress-theme-change-cause-a-drop-in-traffic/feed/ Can a Wordpress theme change cause a drop in traffic? - Forum Topic in the Group Blogging Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:30:11 +0000 http://buddypress.org/?v=1.5.5 en http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/can-a-wordpress-theme-change-cause-a-drop-in-traffic/#post-25717<![CDATA[Nichole Schlecht replied to the forum topic Can a Wordpress theme change cause a drop in traffic? in the club Blogging]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/can-a-wordpress-theme-change-cause-a-drop-in-traffic/#post-25717 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:29:36 +0000 Nichole Schlecht replied to the forum topic Can a Wordpress theme change cause a drop in traffic? in the club Blogging @adamgottlieb
I just meant you should check the plugin to make sure it's still activated.  I took a peek at your site however and it does appear to be working properly.
]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/can-a-wordpress-theme-change-cause-a-drop-in-traffic/#post-25715<![CDATA[Adam Gottlieb replied to the forum topic Can a Wordpress theme change cause a drop in traffic? in the club Blogging]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/can-a-wordpress-theme-change-cause-a-drop-in-traffic/#post-25715 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:18:45 +0000 Adam Gottlieb replied to the forum topic Can a Wordpress theme change cause a drop in traffic? in the club Blogging  @iamconsulting 
"You should also check your SEO to make sure it transferred to the new theme."
What do you mean by that? SEO-related plugins are working? Titles, meta-tags, descriptions, etc are still there? Both […]
]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/can-a-wordpress-theme-change-cause-a-drop-in-traffic/#post-25714<![CDATA[Nichole Schlecht replied to the forum topic Can a Wordpress theme change cause a drop in traffic? in the club Blogging]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/can-a-wordpress-theme-change-cause-a-drop-in-traffic/#post-25714 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:08:29 +0000 Nichole Schlecht replied to the forum topic Can a Wordpress theme change cause a drop in traffic? in the club Blogging @adamgottlieb
That's great to hear!  As far as traffic goes, your theme shouldn't have any effect.  The latest Panda update I mentioned before may have contributed to the decrease in traffic.  You should also […]
]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/can-a-wordpress-theme-change-cause-a-drop-in-traffic/#post-25690<![CDATA[Adam Gottlieb replied to the forum topic Can a Wordpress theme change cause a drop in traffic? in the club Blogging]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/can-a-wordpress-theme-change-cause-a-drop-in-traffic/#post-25690 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:00:01 +0000 Adam Gottlieb replied to the forum topic Can a Wordpress theme change cause a drop in traffic? in the club Blogging  @iamconsulting I had checked the Google forums, but somehow missed this thread. I looked at my source code and there actually was a second version of analytics code on the page. How it got there, I have no idea. […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/can-a-wordpress-theme-change-cause-a-drop-in-traffic/#post-25680<![CDATA[Romy Singh replied to the forum topic Can a Wordpress theme change cause a drop in traffic? in the club Blogging]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/can-a-wordpress-theme-change-cause-a-drop-in-traffic/#post-25680 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 04:17:44 +0000 Romy Singh replied to the forum topic Can a Wordpress theme change cause a drop in traffic? in the club Blogging Hello Adam,
There could many reasons why your website traffic gone down, but as far as theme changing is concerned  i don't think that it plays a huge role in traffic. But it plays huge role in user engagement. if […]
]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/can-a-wordpress-theme-change-cause-a-drop-in-traffic/#post-25604<![CDATA[Nichole Schlecht replied to the forum topic Can a Wordpress theme change cause a drop in traffic? in the club Blogging]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/can-a-wordpress-theme-change-cause-a-drop-in-traffic/#post-25604 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:11:33 +0000 Nichole Schlecht replied to the forum topic Can a Wordpress theme change cause a drop in traffic? in the club Blogging @adamgottlieb
Definitely wonky...have you tried replacing the code?  I did find this post here that sounds like a similar issue that involves the page tracking code - <a href="https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!category-topic/analytics/discuss-tracking-and-implementation-issues/quhMuVY2j9c&#034; style="font-size: 10pt; […]
]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic//#post-<![CDATA[Adam Gottlieb replied to the forum topic Can a Wordpress theme change cause a drop in traffic? in the club Blogging]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic//#post- Mon, 26 Mar 2012 05:28:15 +0000 Adam Gottlieb replied to the forum topic Can a Wordpress theme change cause a drop in traffic? in the club Blogging  @iamconsulting Talking about "wonky"... my Google analytics account suddenly looks like it needs new batteries. Though page views seem a bit more normal, now it's telling me I have a bounce rate of about 2%, […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/can-a-wordpress-theme-change-cause-a-drop-in-traffic/#post-25550<![CDATA[Nichole Schlecht replied to the forum topic Can a Wordpress theme change cause a drop in traffic? in the club Blogging]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/can-a-wordpress-theme-change-cause-a-drop-in-traffic/#post-25550 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 05:00:25 +0000 Nichole Schlecht replied to the forum topic Can a Wordpress theme change cause a drop in traffic? in the club Blogging @adamgottlieb
No, changing your theme won't make a difference to search engines and you wouldn't see a huge decrease in traffic so quickly.  
Google announced Friday that they rolled out a new Panda update which […]
]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/can-a-wordpress-theme-change-cause-a-drop-in-traffic/#post-25264<![CDATA[Paul Wylie replied to the forum topic Can a Wordpress theme change cause a drop in traffic? in the club Blogging]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/can-a-wordpress-theme-change-cause-a-drop-in-traffic/#post-25264 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 01:33:30 +0000 Paul Wylie replied to the forum topic Can a Wordpress theme change cause a drop in traffic? in the club Blogging @adamgottlieb It could be theme related issue some themes aren't worth a damn. You need to be careful when switching themes make sure you know the developer hasn't coded it wrong. @glengorham is right don't […]

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/can-a-wordpress-theme-change-cause-a-drop-in-traffic/#post-25258<![CDATA[Adam Gottlieb replied to the forum topic Can a Wordpress theme change cause a drop in traffic? in the club Blogging]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/can-a-wordpress-theme-change-cause-a-drop-in-traffic/#post-25258 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:55:41 +0000 Adam Gottlieb replied to the forum topic Can a Wordpress theme change cause a drop in traffic? in the club Blogging Thanks Glen for the suggestions, and, no, it doesn't seem to be a normal change in traffic. I'll try re-running my SEO plugin and see if it helps... and maybe stay away from Google Analytics for a few days.

]]> http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/can-a-wordpress-theme-change-cause-a-drop-in-traffic/#post-25254<![CDATA[Glen Gorham replied to the forum topic Can a Wordpress theme change cause a drop in traffic? in the club Blogging]]>http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/can-a-wordpress-theme-change-cause-a-drop-in-traffic/#post-25254 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:04:08 +0000 Glen Gorham replied to the forum topic Can a Wordpress theme change cause a drop in traffic? in the club Blogging @adamgottlieb a couple things come to mind, rerun your SEO addon (Yoast or whatever) usually they have steps you can go through and make sure your theme is presenting the H1, H2 tags, site titles etc etc etc […]

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