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This doesn't help you now, but why didn't you keep the old site and just 301'd to the new page for a year or so?

There is a really good spec by google on how to move sites: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6033049?hl=en Googles best spec in my eyes. 301 (what, how, and what not) change of address request, sitemap.xml,