Drop in Traffic after site redesign and relaunch?

[Tommy]

Hi Costmo,

No neeed to feel desperate at the moment. It takes time for Search Engines to pick up the 301 redirect authorities. It has only been a week and a half.

Furthermore, I believe I read somewhere that although 301 redirects to transfer authority and link juice; however, sometimes it doesn't carry ALL link juice. Some may be lost. I may be wrong.

As for Sitemap resubmit, it also takes a while for bots to recrawl all the pages you've submited.

All in all, be patient. SEO takes time. Furthermore, if you haven't done any thing black hat, it should be fine. I believe it is just some lag in the crawling process of the 301 redirects.