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Originally Posted by pbryd  This is what I'm hoping I did wrong. If it is, then the site might climb back up before too long.
I put an html redirect on the old html pages to the new WP ones, then I got worried about it being hit for duplicate content, so I just deleted all the old html ones.
I may have been a bit foolish  |
A 301 redirect is to tell Google your page has moved and thus
prevent duplicate content issues, not create them.
In your .htaccess add:
redirect 301 youroldpage.html yournewpage