Domain change and site is gone!

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Well I had a website ranking very well at top 5 spots on Google.

I went through a domain name change because I believed that could do better for the rankings as I didn't like the dash domain names. So I bought the new domain and properly moved my old site to it with proper redirection as Google recommended. In 2 days, I was ranking at the same spots my old site was.

But the 5th day, my website has gone totally away from rankings. The pages are still indexed but I can't see any result even upto the 10th page. I don't really know what happened so please help.
#search engine optimization #change #domain #site
  • If anyone recovered from it, please advice?
  • Which redirection you've implemented??
    If 301 then wait it'll back soon...
  • wait for some time your ranking will be back if you done correct redirection,
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    • Give it some time. Let google crawl the redirects a few times and in a couple of weeks it should resolve itself.

      This happened to one of my sites. I bought a better domain and 301 redirected to the new domain and it took about 3 weeks for my position to be regained. On some pages my ranking improved a little due to a more keyword rich domain name.
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  • According to my experience you should also submit your site maps once again should review your redirect once again is it via proper channel or not.
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  • Well, whenever you make some changes on your website, your rankings may fall down, especially if its redirection.

    Don't worry your rankings will bounce back to normal.
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    • Yeah its 301 redirection and its been 2 weeks I'm waiting.

      All sitemaps and feeds have been submitted, now waiting for Google to hop back on it. I hope it comes back to its place.
  • I have worked with a few 301 redirect sites, and they took at least two months to get back to where the original site was. I kept building links the whole time.
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  • I just want to be yet another to say this, so that you know it's probably the case.

    You are dealing with the "Google Dance".

    Learn more about it:

    "In search engine optimization (SEO), Google Dance is an out-dated slang term used to describe the period of time in which Google used to rebuild its rankings, and as a result of this rebuilding, rankings of Web sites on Google's SERP may fluctuate in order during a several day period. The "Google Dance" would happen anywhere up to 36 times per year, however in 2003 Google begun updating its index on a weekly basis, which all but eliminated the Google Dance."

    Source: What is Google Dance? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary
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    Domain change and site is gone!

    Well I had a website ranking very well at top 5 spots on Google. I went through a domain name change because I believed that could do better for the rankings as I didn't like the dash domain names. So I bought the new domain and properly moved my old site to it with proper redirection as Google recommended. In 2 days, I was ranking at the same spots my old site was.