Will deepcrawl find me

or confirm that i'm not there

[Blue_Atlas]

We switched servers last saturday. The site was taken off the old server for fear of getting penalized. We were dropped from Google results almost entirely. (This is bad).

Is it reasonable to expect that google will find my new DNS with this next "Dance" or just confirm that the old one is gone and then get to my new one next time?

Is there anything that I should or should not be doing in the mean time that would help our situation?

[dwilson]

You should have left the domain up on the old IP address until Google had found you on the new IP. But that's in the past.

If I'm not mistaken, you're going to need to wait to be crawled again. But ... Freshbot may change that ... not sure.

P.S. Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

[Blue_Atlas]

I was afraid of that.

Thanks for the welcome!

[taxpod]

The one exception to this rule is where you stay with the same server farm. I switched IP addresses because I upgraded servers but stayed with the same company. Gbot had no trouble finding my new server. But it is always prudent to leave up the old as Google seems to be slow updating the DNS cache.

[Blue_Atlas]

I was getting regular updates (I assume Freshbot) on my pages within a day or two after changes prior to the server change, and was making some really good progress. Now my season is at hand, and since saturday night, I am dead to google.

Would it do any good to try to get the site back up on the old server, or is it too late to do that also?