Moving My Hosting Is Bad?

I moved my website hosting, my site was ranked page 1 of google.com no.2.

Two days after transfer my site has dropped to page 4. Will my site come back? if not any advice please. Thanks Warriors!

Did your site have downtime?

Or did you move the content ahead of time and then just switch the DNS?

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NewbieAff 12 years ago

Originally Posted by David Keith

Did your site have downtime?

Or did you move the content ahead of time and then just switch the DNS?

Sorry, i moved content then switched name servers.
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NewbieAff

12 years ago

Yes it had downtime for about 2hours, why?

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David Keith

12 years ago

Originally Posted by NewbieAff

Yes it had downtime for about 2hours, why?

If the search engines spider your site and find it really slow or down, that can impact your rankings.

2 hours probably isn't enough to have affect that though unless you are terribly unlucky.

are you on a shared hosting account?

if so, the ip address of the server could be labeled as a "bad neighbor" by google.

Basically if google finds that people using that IP are up to blackhat seo stuff they will punish the ip. How much and such is truly anyone's guess though.

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NewbieAff

12 years ago

Originally Posted by David Keith

If the search engines spider your site and find it really slow or down, that can impact your rankings.

2 hours probably isn't enough to have affect that though unless you are terribly unlucky.

are you on a shared hosting account?

if so, the ip address of the server could be labeled as a "bad neighbor" by google.

Basically if google finds that people using that IP are up to blackhat seo stuff they will punish the ip. How much and such is truly anyone's guess though.

I use hostgator for hosting, is that shared?

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David Keith

12 years ago

Originally Posted by NewbieAff

I use hostgator for hosting, is that shared?

They have all types, but probably. If you are not sure, then it is almost certain you are on a shared server.

But shared servers are how much of the internet is hosted. Don't get overly alarmed. Give it some time and see how things work out. It may or may not have even had anything to do with the server change.

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NewbieAff

12 years ago

Originally Posted by David Keith

They have all types, but probably. If you are not sure, then it is almost certain you are on a shared server.

But shared servers are how much of the internet is hosted. Don't get overly alarmed. Give it some time and see how things work out. It may or may not have even had anything to do with the server change.

What do i do, just see if it comes back. Can i find out if my IP is blacklisted? Cheers

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Kingfish85 12 years ago

Originally Posted by NewbieAff

What do i do, just see if it comes back. Can i find out if my IP is blacklisted? Cheers

Email Blacklist Check - See if your server is blacklisted
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potissimus 12 years ago

Originally Posted by NewbieAff

What do i do, just see if it comes back. Can i find out if my IP is blacklisted? Cheers

I use www unlocktheinbox com/blacklist/bl to check if my server is blacklisted. you get more results if searching by ip address instead of hostname because more blacklists support it. check it out when you have some time. excuse my jacked up url i only have 10 posts and cant put a working link. just put a dot where the spaces are. good luck.
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NACAdam

12 years ago

yeah load time of the site is kind of important could be google dance. Too many variables without knowing more of the details . You're competition could have just had 200 links indexed who knows

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NewbieAff

12 years ago

Originally Posted by NACAdam

yeah load time of the site is kind of important could be google dance. Too many variables without knowing more of the details . You're competition could have just had 200 links indexed who knows

200 links, So i drop 3 pages i was on page 1 at no.2? Thanks

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Jay Brass

12 years ago

Originally Posted by NewbieAff

I moved my website hosting, my site was ranked page 1 of google.com no.2.

Two days after transfer my site has dropped to page 4. Will my site come back? if not any advice please. Thanks Warriors!

Switching hosts does indeed affect your ranks. This happened to a site of mine that was on page 2 for a competitive keyword. Once I switched hosts, the site disappeared from Google's listings for 2 days I think. Then it went back to normal.

Basically, switching your hosts throws up a red flag in Google for a reason which I am not too sure about. Your ranks fluctuate because Google is trying to see what your site is doing.

If the SEO you've done to that site is white hat and all ethical, your ranks will come back. If the SEO you've performed is black hat and spammy, you can be assured that your site's ranks will not come back.

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NewbieAff

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Jay Brass

Switching hosts does indeed affect your ranks. This happened to a site of mine that was on page 2 for a competitive keyword. Once I switched hosts, the site disappeared from Google's listings for 2 days I think. Then it went back to normal.

Basically, switching your hosts throws up a red flag in Google for a reason which I am not too sure about. Your ranks fluctuate because Google is trying to see what your site is doing.

If the SEO you've done to that site is white hat and all ethical, your ranks will come back. If the SEO you've performed is black hat and spammy, you can be assured that your site's ranks will not come back.

It is SEO whitehat and not spammy, Will it come back, been no.2 on page 1 for 4months

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David Keith

12 years ago

Originally Posted by NewbieAff

It is SEO whitehat and not spammy, Will it come back, been no.2 on page 1 for 4months

You will have to ask google that, none of us have any say in that at all...if only we did. That just means be patient and wait to see.

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DannyDisco

12 years ago

How long has it been on page 2 for? Maybe it's just a google dance... or maybe it coincides with Panda and google is now ranking your competitors better.

Are you actively generating backlinks for this site?

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NewbieAff

12 years ago

Originally Posted by DannyDisco

How long has it been on page 2 for? Maybe it's just a google dance... or maybe it coincides with Panda and google is now ranking your competitors better.

Are you actively generating backlinks for this site?

Two days now, it has lots of good backlinks to it already.

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NewbieAff

12 years ago

JUst out of interest, in firefox it is not showing on page 1, But on IE it is??

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Kingfish85 12 years ago

Originally Posted by NewbieAff

JUst out of interest, in firefox it is not showing on page 1, But on IE it is??

Sign out of google or choose hide personal results over on the right by the settings. I think it is showing your personal results.
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  Tried that mate, still the same
  
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extremejava

12 years ago

It happens when switching web hosts so be very careful with your web host. Choose a better one rather than changing every year.
Keep working on your website and you should get your rankings back

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Juvv2096

12 years ago

If the web host is decent, load times are fine etc you should be okay. build some links to the site and you should bounce back.

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webinventaekhlas

12 years ago

When someone change their website then there might be downtime. In that time if Google bot came to your website but can't get the info then your SERP will be affected.

Best choice is to host your site to "top 10 hosting providers" from the very beginning. Because they don't have any downtime issues...

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