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Can Downed Server Cause Ranking Drop?

by BarryOnline
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All my sites were down for over 12 hours but everything is now fine & back to normal.

However, my main site has lost rankings for some unknown reason. It's still ranking in position #1 for a couple of keywords but for two of the main keywords the site has dropped from #1 to around #60.

This site has not been effected in any way by the recent panda updates or any other Google algo change. The only thing I can think of that could have caused this is the long down time of the server.

Could it be that the site being down could have caused a ranking drop?
#downed #drop #ranking #server
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    • Profile picture of the author BarryOnline
      Originally Posted by murrad View Post

      May be its true if your server is bad, all backlinks might have gone and pull your website back on the ranking....
      My hosting provider is good, it was just a technical problem & was the first time I've ever had a problem.

      Why would all my back links have gone?
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  • Profile picture of the author SuzanneH
    Give it a bit of time and it will probably come back. Twelve hours shouldn't effect you permanently, IMHO (and from my own experience).

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    • Profile picture of the author BarryOnline
      Originally Posted by SuzanneH View Post

      Give it a bit of time and it will probably come back. Twelve hours shouldn't effect you permanently, IMHO (and from my own experience).

      Suzanne
      It's a $1,000+ per month Amazon site & it's dropped at the worst possible time of the year. Just about to hit the Christmas sales... nightmare considering the site has held #1 all this year, even through all these Google updates.
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  • Profile picture of the author iAmNameLess
    Your backlinks aren't gone...

    Give it about a week and if you don't have your rank back then worry.
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  • Profile picture of the author RevSEO
    Yes downtime CAN affect rankings.

    Make sure you have a solid server that doesn't go down often and has the best load time as possible.

    The crappier the server, the more bounces you'll receive and the more times that Google sees 404/403 codes. Which in turn, why should they provide you rankings?
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  • Profile picture of the author BarryOnline
    I'm going to throw a couple of high PR, relevant links to the site & hopefully with the next crawl it will bounce back. Unbelievable timing on this one though!
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  • Profile picture of the author chukcha
    Originally Posted by BarryOnline View Post

    All my sites were down for over 12 hours but everything is now fine & back to normal.

    However, my main site has lost rankings for some unknown reason. It's still ranking in position #1 for a couple of keywords but for two of the main keywords the site has dropped from #1 to around #60.

    This site has not been effected in any way by the recent panda updates or any other Google algo change. The only thing I can think of that could have caused this is the long down time of the server.

    Could it be that the site being down could have caused a ranking drop?
    Yes it can but not on -60 max 5 to 10 I've noticed on my sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author DynaPass
    I don't think a 12 hour drop would affect very much unless you are on some really competitive keywords. I had a site drop for 3 days before I realized what had happened and it still ranked fine although the keyword is not an extremely competitive term.
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    • Profile picture of the author Black Hat Cat
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      So, did your rankings ever come back?
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