Lost Visability On A Site When Migrated

[edgarf76]

I migrated a site from A2 to siteground and since then I have lost all visability in GSC. A lot of the pages were deindexed. Some are coming up as a 404 in GCS (but the page is still there). I re-submitted the sitemap. Can someone give me some insight on what I may have done wrong?

 

[roth]

You should probably check the server logs and URLs (using GSC's url inspections tool). Also clear any server-side caches.

 

[edgarf76]

I figured it out finally, thank you.

 

[topcaz]

And what was the reason? That will be for sure helpful for a lot of people to know

 

[futurewise.lat]

O would strongly advise against using Wordpress for affiliate sites and rather migrate to SSGs like Eleventy

 

[CasinoDotReview]

O would strongly advise against using Wordpress for affiliate sites and rather migrate to SSGs like Eleventy

can you explain why?

 

[futurewise.lat]

can you explain why?

Sure, would love to share my experience. We used to run a WP network of sites, over the +6 years doing so, we learned the hard way that:

1. Efficient WP hosting is costly for big sites (we used to run on Cloudways), even with good cache policies
2. Wordpress attack surface is too big and unstable (with third party plugin updates)
3. Takes too much work to make WP work for SEO, with extra paid plugins costs.

We migrates to static sites created with SSG like Eleventy, or using Wordpress as a backend with a Headless Svelte Front-end (In case you have copywriters accustomed to WP admin interface)

For smaller sites you can host you static site (dynamically generated, with a Static-Site-Generator) for free at Vercel (with bandwidth limits). This sites load quick, are free to host, and can really increase your score.

Not a sales pitch, but today we specialize in migrating, developing and optimizing sites to a SSG or Headless approach. Some of our case studies moved from F to A scores in GTMetrix.

These are not common aporoachs for new affiliates, we learned the hard-way, but still Wordpress is a fine alternative if you are just starting up! Best of lucks with your project. Hope it helped!