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Taffic drop after DNs change? what is the reason

by substance
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I have just change my site DNS and traffic was as usual.

Then suddenly after 24 hours my traffic drop to almost non existing when it is usually high at that particular time at G.analytics.

I check my rankings and I am also not at my SWEET usual ranking spot..

Ah! Is this natural for rankings to fluctuate after DNS change?
#change #dns #drop #reason #taffic
  • Profile picture of the author Dead Body
    did you changed the server location ?
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    • Profile picture of the author substance
      yes I change server location too. What might be the reason possibly?
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      • Profile picture of the author UMS
        Originally Posted by substance View Post

        yes I change server location too. What might be the reason possibly?
        You've just answered your own question.

        Did you have any outages during the transition?
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        • Profile picture of the author substance
          Originally Posted by UMS View Post

          You've just answered your own question.

          Did you have any outages during the transition?


          Absolutely no outage as I had backups and the site was never offline not even for a sec.
          My other friend is saying that it will be normal again. I am currently making some $ with the traffic but this is such a let down now with the drop in ranks. I hope it clears up in a day or two.
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          • Profile picture of the author paulgl
            No matter what, I have never had zero downtime when changing a
            DNS.

            You mention traffic in the title, but then switch to rankings.

            Traffic would probably drop. Servers are rerouted all over the
            world, so a change could go south. But then, you say traffic
            was the same.

            Rankings, at least right away, would not be affected.

            Unless, there was something else in tandem with the DNS change.
            Did you change hosts? Not all hosts and servers will replicate a site's
            internal workings. And that could affect rankings, and perhaps kick
            in 24 hours later as the dust settles.

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            • Profile picture of the author substance
              Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

              No matter what, I have never had zero downtime when changing a
              DNS.

              You mention traffic in the title, but then switch to rankings.

              Traffic would probably drop. Servers are rerouted all over the
              world, so a change could go south. But then, you say traffic
              was the same.

              Rankings, at least right away, would not be affected.

              Unless, there was something else in tandem with the DNS change.
              Did you change hosts? Not all hosts and servers will replicate a site's
              internal workings. And that could affect rankings, and perhaps kick
              in 24 hours later as the dust settles.

              Paul
              I mean to say that just after DNS change to ipage everything was normal ( rankings and traffics)
              It all started downwards after 24 hours. Only one keywords is on no.8 ( it was no.1 earlier) and the others I can't even see them on 2nd or even 3rd page.

              Around 80% of my site traffic is organic and now I am getting only 10% of that traffic. I even thought that my site was de-indexed at first. But fortunately , no.

              I have webmaster tools and everything looks ok! Does your rankings go up and down for few days. My site is also quite new.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Maguire
    Originally Posted by substance View Post

    I have just change my site DNS and traffic was as usual.

    Then suddenly after 24 hours my traffic drop to almost non existing when it is usually high at that particular time at G.analytics.

    I check my rankings and I am also not at my SWEET usual ranking spot..

    Ah! Is this natural for rankings to fluctuate after DNS change?
    This falls under

    Chapter 07
    Book 03
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    Section 09
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    The
    "Google Pray For Your Life While Changing To A Better Server Clause"

    It happens a lot. I was even thinking of building an Insurance Company around it.

    Its gone Charlie..The Monies Gone ForevaaAAAA!!!!
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  • Profile picture of the author KirkMcD
    Again, is it your rankings or your traffic?
    DNS changes aren't instantaneous. The traffic could still be going to the old server and the analytics is reading the traffic from the new server or vice-versa.
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  • Profile picture of the author smodha
    Seems to me that the Google dance is responsible for the traffic drop and not the DNS change.
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