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On Saturday our ISP moved our servers to a new building. The DNS has always been in the new building so it didn’t go down.
On Sunday one of the servers they moved crashed and was down for most of the day.
Wednesday or Early Thursday most of the sites on that server disappeared from Google.
But every day googlebot has been spidering those sites since the downtime.
The interesting thing (or the only thing I can find) is that when I search for the URL’s in Google it comes back with:
“Sorry, no information is available for the URL www.widgets.com
•Find web pages that contain the term "www.widgets.com"
Now if I add a character so that it no longer resolves to anything I get:
“Sorry, no information is available for the URL www.wid111gets.com
•If the URL is valid, try visiting that web page by clicking on the following link: www.wid111gets.com
•Find web pages that contain the term "www.wid111gets.com"
The difference being that if it’s not a real URL (or Google doesn’t know of it existence) – Google returns: If the URL is valid, try visiting the page…..
Has anyone else whose server was down and then their sites disappeared from Google, get the same response when they typed their URL in Google as I did?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Note though that we had our old ip's remapped to the new location, which may be your problem - you're running on new ip's
Can't see why google will drop you for that, unless it visited your site while it was down and now thinks your url is dead....
