The domain I moved to a new IP still has no googlebot visits

Is it too soon?

[jojojo]

I don't know how often any of google's bots visit but it has been about 6 days now since I moved the domain to a different IP and I still see no googlebot activity. Is it too soon? How often do the bots visit? The site has 75+ high PR backlinks.

[sandor]

patience :)
if its already in google, i see no reason why you'd need to worry ... unless your ip address was previously (previous site/owner) blacklisted and banned. other than that i think ip changes are insignificant

[instabill]

jojojo

I moved a domain back in January. It took 27 days for Googlebot to find the new site. The good thing was that I followed the advice of many here and left the old site up for 30 days and uploaded changes to both sites until Googlebot found the new IP.

[jojojo]

thanks guys...

The site was not on a banned IP or anything - it was up for about 10-14 days before I realized I should have it on a different domain so I moved it - I'm not sure if it was even visited by googlebot while it was up - I left the old site there anyways. There are 75+ high PR sites pointing to it as well. Either way I guess I will be fine.

viva la update ;)

[jamie]

jojojo

something i read here really helped me: put a link to the new IP address as the first thing on the homepage of the old site.

googlebot found our new IP within 4 days, and immediately switched to spidering the new IP. i never saw it again in my logs at the old IP.

good luck

[jojojo]

So should I add this link now? What should I name the text that links to this IP address?

[jojojo]

The old site's IP's access log is completey empty. Is this a good thing? Or does it simply mean that no www traffic is visiting the old IP as it shouldn't be but googlebot could drop by anytime - if it does it will find a link to the new IP address and I named it: thedomain.com

[jamie]

my link used the domain as the anchor text, just as you have done.

[Marcia]

I put up a link to the new IP when sites are moved (if its a unique IP). I'd link from a page that gets fresh crawled.

[jojojo]

well well it appears that googlebot visited the old IP today. I have the exact same site still there with a link to the new IP address. ANy guess how long it will take for google to find the new IP now?

Someone was saying something about during the deep crawl google updates it's DNS etc?

Any thoughts?

[jojojo]

awesome news - today googlebot visited the new IP address - the very next day after visiting the old one and finding the new IP address linked from that site - thanks everyone for usggesting this - it definitely helped :)

*releases giant weight from shoulders* *thud*

:)))))

[olwen]

I moved a site last week. Complete revamp on a different IP address. Didn't tell Google, did nothing to the old site. Googlebot, and a few crawly friends have already been to visit.