8 hrs downtime and rankings suddenly down?

Hardik Jogi · 09-08-2011, 12:01 AM

Hello warriors,
Yesterday my site went down for 8 hrs as it got hacked. Luckily i had backup and was able to restore it but site's main keyword ranking went to 26 from 11. Is it temporary?

Btw my site gets updated very frequently so googlebot visits my site every hour. So+ i am sure that googlebot had tried to visit my site 7-8 times during the downtime.

lovboa · 09-08-2011, 12:57 AM

Yeah, you should be fine. As long as the hacker didn't do anything else...like sneak in links on your site.

I don't know how somebody did this...I wasn't hacked or anything...but there was a very sneaky link on my footer a month ago. It wasn't invisible, but it was colored so that I cannot see it, and I must have not seen it for weeks.

I have no idea how anybody did that. Maybe the author of a plugin I downloaded? It can't be author of the theme because it was never there before.

Alexdoerr · 09-08-2011, 01:23 AM

It happens that the server goes down and the same time google spiders crawl the website. When they do not find the pages that were ranked, google removes or falls your rankings down. It is better to find a reliable host that could give you best uptime.

summerfranken · 09-08-2011, 01:33 AM

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originally posted by Alexdoerr
It happens that the server goes down and the same time google spiders crawl the website. When they do not find the pages that were ranked, google removes or falls your rankings down. It is better to find a reliable host that could give you best uptime.

I agree with this.

Hardik Jogi · 09-08-2011, 06:44 AM

Hi guys,
Just got my website back to 14 when i use california proxy. It is still 26 in chicago and other parts.

Thus i got to know that google updates first for california and then for the rest of the world.

09-08-2011, 12:01 AM	#1
Hardik Jogi That Online Guy War Room Member Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Indus Valley Posts: 263 Thanks: 17 Thanked 25 Times in 22 Posts	8 hrs downtime and rankings suddenly down? Hello warriors, Yesterday my site went down for 8 hrs as it got hacked. Luckily i had backup and was able to restore it but site's main keyword ranking went to 26 from 11. Is it temporary? Btw my site gets updated very frequently so googlebot visits my site every hour. So+ i am sure that googlebot had tried to visit my site 7-8 times during the downtime.

09-08-2011, 12:57 AM	#2
lovboa Advanced Warrior Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 741 Thanks: 119 Thanked 80 Times in 71 Posts	Re: 8 hrs downtime and rankings suddenly down? Yeah, you should be fine. As long as the hacker didn't do anything else...like sneak in links on your site. I don't know how somebody did this...I wasn't hacked or anything...but there was a very sneaky link on my footer a month ago. It wasn't invisible, but it was colored so that I cannot see it, and I must have not seen it for weeks. I have no idea how anybody did that. Maybe the author of a plugin I downloaded? It can't be author of the theme because it was never there before.
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09-08-2011, 01:23 AM	#3
Alexdoerr Active Warrior Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 60 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: 8 hrs downtime and rankings suddenly down? It happens that the server goes down and the same time google spiders crawl the website. When they do not find the pages that were ranked, google removes or falls your rankings down. It is better to find a reliable host that could give you best uptime.
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09-08-2011, 06:44 AM	#5
Hardik Jogi That Online Guy War Room Member Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Indus Valley Posts: 263 Thanks: 17 Thanked 25 Times in 22 Posts	Re: 8 hrs downtime and rankings suddenly down? Hi guys, Just got my website back to 14 when i use california proxy. It is still 26 in chicago and other parts. Thus i got to know that google updates first for california and then for the rest of the world.