# Submission / traffic problem... need help

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/submission-traffic-problem-need-help/6033>\
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**Created:** [September 27, 2002, 11:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/submission-traffic-problem-need-help/6033 "2002-09-27T23:51:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![arazmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@arazmas](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/arazmas)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2002, 11:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/submission-traffic-problem-need-help/6033/1 "2002-09-27T23:51:47Z")

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My friend and I have launched this site [Hotbuystation.com](http://www.hotbuystation.com) for about 2 years and we’ve been getting good traffic and business. However due to some legal issues we had to cut the site off for about a year and we replaced our old product line to something entirely new. Now the problem is, I can’t seem to really get back nearly as much traffic as I used to get anymore… It seems like the directories which has already crawled our site years ago wouldn’t update our site content. I really don’t want to pay the big money to those search engines or submission “pros” to have them do it… Any ideas and suggestions?

arazmas  
[http://www.hotbuystation.com](http://www.hotbuystation.com)

p.s. sorry I posted it under that other forum… seems like i posted it in the wrong place.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2002, 11:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/submission-traffic-problem-need-help/6033/2 "2002-09-28T11:15:42Z")

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Hey arazmas,  
Have you considered adding a re-direct script to the old domain so that whenever people enter the URL for your old domain, they will automatically be transferred to the new site? Or is that not a possibility due to the legal issues you ran into?

Cheers!  
Kirupa :rambo:

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2002, 9:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/submission-traffic-problem-need-help/6033/3 "2002-09-29T09:17:32Z")

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well the problem is we’re using the exact same old domain name. At first I thought it would be a good idea to use that old one 'cause I expected the old customers to re-visit our site and that way I won’t waste my traffic. But then, I failed to recognize how difficult it is to have the search engines actually UPDATE our site listing and move our site to an appropriate category. Well I guess I’m learning things the hard way.

Anyway, what would you suggest? Should I just grab another domain name and mirror my whole site there, and redirect visitors to a new site? Or would you have any better suggestion? I really don’t just wanna surrender here _sigh_ :-\