Server shift, affected the domain name setting...need info

changing servers and doing a domain redirect

[Katie_Venra]

Ok...

Right now, if you go to google and run a search for 'my keywords' you'll see my site at 2nd (i can NEVER get 1st, dont know what #1 is doing...rofl). This has kept me really happy for the past year or so, even though i've only got a page rank of 5....

Heres the problem though. For the past year the site has been on its own server, the domain was tied to it. Now the server company ditched us without any warning at all saying we were 'using too many resources'.

What i have had to do now is get a new host. We are now a sub domain, one of those www.blah.blahblah.com type addresses. The actual .com domain name we bought for the site is in the middle of redirecting, i'm waiting on the DNS to shift.

Its one of those straight re-direct type of things, where the person types in the .com address and when the page loads the real address of the site appears...

WIll this affect google at all? Will i still be able to hold on to that 2nd place?

Or will i have to re-submit my site under its REAL url?

[jamsy]

I would say that if the DNS cascades out within the next 24 hours you should be ok since google is going through her dance and will be out again looking for your site in a few days.

If its going to be longer then you might run into some temporary troubles. :(

[rfgdxm1]

This may depend when the dance happens. If it does so in the expected next few days, odds are she's OK. However, if Google find her domain dead, and the dance comes later than expected, it could be out of Google for a month.

[Katie_Venra]

Well ya see this is the weird bit...

The original server, that has the .com domain actually nameserved direct into it (it aint a re-direct) is still running...

The new server (which the .com address does a re-direct to) is also running, both have exact copies of the site's on them.

Right now the DNS is shifting in between them, so the domain has always got somewhere to go to.

My question is though, will google be able to follow the .com re-direct that directnic does, they say something about a 302 or something redirect that moves people to the real domain...

[warmasol]

I think Google has no problems with a redirect 302(temporarily moved).
The question is, which domain will be indexed by Google? The domain redirected from or to.
There is an other problem with the IP. Google use his own IP cash. See [webmasterworld.com...]

[Digipaint]

I have had plenty of clients who had an existing site which was indexed in Google but not ranking well against search terms. I've then rebuilt their site and transferred their domain to a new server. Google has crawled the site as usual (oblivious that it's on a new server) and very often I've found the site is ranking much better within the first month.

In short - it shouldn't matter that you've changed server as long as the site isn't down when the Googlebot comes by. Whether it's the new or old server, you should be OK.

[jtoddv]

I agree with digipaint, there is no need to worry.

Do you have links coming into your site from others, ones that the bot hits? If so don't worry. If not, then you might have an issue with that IP cache, but I really do not think it will be an issue. Especially since the site is a 5.

If the bot doesn't find you one day, it usually comes back the next.

[Katie_Venra]

Thanks all, and yeah, i do have a few good link backs to the front page... :)

I'm looking for a few more in the same star trek category, but theres very few 6 of above page ranks for fan sites...5 is the average usually :)