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Site down 2 months: how long to recover ?

by webrevolution
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Hi everyone,

I am new on this forum and I saw some interesting topics on this forum regarding the issue I am facing, but couldn't find appropriate answer.

I have a website which was down during 2 months. It was due to excessive ressource utilization of the website compared to the server possibilities.

I didn't pay much attention to that, but when I discovered it, I immediately did some actions to have it back up. The site is up for 1 month now, but I don't have the same rankings than before. My website was #2 or #3 for a very competitive keywork, and it's not anymore. However, I still get traffic from Google with long tail keywords.

According to you, can I get the same rankings as before ? Do I have to do something special or only wait for Google to like me again ? Anyone experienced that ? How long it took to get back in SERP ?

Thanks in advance.
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  • Profile picture of the author scottmacair
    Your site being down for so long will effect rankings as google wants to rank quality content and content that is down for 2 months is not quality.

    Make sure you haven't eliminated any other contributory factors, for example did you build backlinks to the site? Google have rolled out some massive algorithm updates lately with spam links and unnatural links being severely treated.
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    • Profile picture of the author webrevolution
      Originally Posted by scottmacair View Post

      Your site being down for so long will effect rankings as google wants to rank quality content and content that is down for 2 months is not quality.
      Yes it had an impact on my rankings of course, but site has any chance to get back ? A site down for 2 months can happen, is now back and up for 1 month, Google cannot undesrtand it ?

      Originally Posted by scottmacair View Post

      Make sure you haven't eliminated any other contributory factors, for example did you build backlinks to the site? Google have rolled out some massive algorithm updates lately with spam links and unnatural links being severely treated.
      Yes of course, I heard about Penguin, I have a lot of backlinks, but I don't used spam techniques, of course I did some links through directories and stuff, but not more than my competitors. So I don't think it's linked to penguin update.
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      • Profile picture of the author aygabtu
        2 months is a long time. I wouldn't expect any quick pop back to your previous positions, but if your site is consistently up for the next month or two, you may be able to regain most of what you lost.
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        • Profile picture of the author webrevolution
          Originally Posted by aygabtu View Post

          you may be able to regain most of what you lost.
          Thanks for answer dude, when you say you "may be able", you mean is not for sure ? What is the probability (percentage %) of this option (mean regain previous rankings) ? And what is the probability to never get back as before site was down ?
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      • Profile picture of the author scottmacair
        Originally Posted by webrevolution View Post

        Yes it had an impact on my rankings of course, but site has any chance to get back ? A site down for 2 months can happen, is now back and up for 1 month, Google cannot undesrtand it ?



        Yes of course, I heard about Penguin, I have a lot of backlinks, but I don't used spam techniques, of course I did some links through directories and stuff, but not more than my competitors. So I don't think it's linked to penguin update.
        Difficult to say for sure but i think if the issue was just the server being down then you should bounce back quite quickly from that.
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by scottmacair View Post

      Your site being down for so long will effect rankings as google wants to rank quality content and content that is down for 2 months is not quality.
      Say what?

      Just because a site isn't updated or the host is down doesn't mean that content isn't quality content. A site with the best content in the world could have a crappy host & be down.

      OP, change your host ASAP, don't deal with crappy host.
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      • Profile picture of the author webrevolution
        Originally Posted by yukon View Post

        OP, change your host ASAP, don't deal with crappy host.
        Yeah already did that
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        • Profile picture of the author dmtaylor247
          From my experience when a site goes down like this is a pain in the backside to get it back, you need to work doubly hard to see any sort of improvements. It's like started over again...
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      • Profile picture of the author scottmacair
        Originally Posted by yukon View Post

        Say what?

        Just because a site isn't updated or the host is down doesn't mean that content isn't quality content. A site with the best content in the world could have a crappy host & be down.

        OP, change your host ASAP, don't deal with crappy host.
        Yukon most of the time I agree with your posts but this time i'm going to have to disagree - quality content is content that is available. What good is the best content in the world if it's offline! I've got this great content but nobody can access it - that's not quality.
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        • Profile picture of the author yukon
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          Originally Posted by scottmacair View Post

          Yukon most of the time I agree with your posts but this time i'm going to have to disagree - quality content is content that is available. What good is the best content in the world if it's offline! I've got this great content but nobody can access it - that's not quality.
          I don't agree with that.

          Your mixing up quality content with a crappy host (not the same things).

          The host is the reason the content isn't online.

          If content isn't online, it will never rank, again it's a host problem, which OP said they already dealt with.

          Crappy content can rank just the same as quality content, If both pages are actually online (host).
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          • Profile picture of the author scottmacair
            Originally Posted by yukon View Post

            I don't agree with that.

            Your mixing up quality content with a crappy host (not the same things).

            The host is the reason the content isn't online.

            If content isn't online, it will never rank, again it's a host problem, which OP said they already dealt with.

            Crappy content can rank just the same as quality content, If both pages are actually online (host).
            OK OK i'm gonna yield to your view but watch it or i'll get Mike Anthony round here to debate with you!
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  • Profile picture of the author Chronic IM
    Hello! Yeah, two months is such a long time for a quality site. If you wanna be ranked the same as you ranked before, you seriously need to put some work on it. 2 months down for a site is not quality anymore. Best of luck on this though.
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  • Profile picture of the author seoace
    Originally Posted by webrevolution View Post

    I have a website which was down during 2 months.
    There's the cause to your problem.

    Just keep building content & backlinks to your site to make Google "like" your site again and show the search engines that your site is active again.

    Having it down for 2 months..wow...
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  • Profile picture of the author bermuda
    Web hosting matter is becoming more significant than the past and you are highly recommended to use a reliable service that can guarantee your content pages are accessible most of the time. About the ranking drops, it could be a temporary issue because Google might have assumed that the site has gone out of business but if the content pages, the previously indexed ones and links are still online, you can expect a return to previous position.

    It is the matter of time now and try to be patient for some time, ensure you will be using a solid hosting account, keep building good links for your site and make sure the content pages are all uploaded successfully so that the Googlebot will find and index them again soon. You can expect to achieve your ranks but just try to wait for some time and once again, get active optimizing and promoting your website through combination of fresh contents plus links.
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    • Profile picture of the author webrevolution
      Originally Posted by bermuda View Post

      You can expect to achieve your ranks but just try to wait for some time and once again, get active optimizing and promoting your website through combination of fresh contents plus links.
      Thanks I will definitely do that, I started creating links and fresh content as soon as site went up !

      Thx everyone for your answers.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dragontech
    Order a PR private blog network links gig from fiverr using generic anchor and see what happened in next two weeks

    Even if you have your own network, don't use it for this purpose. The idea is to get those links from other ips.

    2 of my testing sites that were hit (-200 & -150) were able to regain ranks to the front page (around their previous positions) within some 20-30 days solely with this method.

    However the experiment was actually applied to 3 testing sites and the one that is still moving up and down around #200-250 and not seem to be able to rank back should be due to too many sitewild links in its profile.

    Anyway, $5 will give you an answer
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