Changed Host and Gone from Google Same Day

[languageusa]

My site has been on the fist page of Google'd SERPs for many major keywords for years. It was still OK this morning. Not any more. I have just moved my site to a new host(today), the move took most of the day. The DNS propagation seems to be complete and my site has totally (100%) disappeared from Google. Some experts are saying that the DNS setup on my new host might have been done incorrectly. I ask for your support. Any thoughts please. Thanks.

[tedster]

My first thought is that it may be back tomorrow. If you can get to the domain through a browser, then googlebot most likely can as well. My first concerns would be:

1) a bad robots.txt file on the new server
2) a poorly executed bot-blocker bby the new host.

If there is a Webmasteer Tools account, I'd check it for information. If not, I'd set one up right away.

Back in 2005, Google's Matt Cutts wrote a blog post about changin web hosts. The advice he gave still holds - you might pick up a clue or two from it: [mattcutts.com...]

[devil_dog]

can you check in your serverlogs and make sure Googlebot is able to access your site?

[Robert Charlton]

Have you checked your domain with a server header check to see if your correct canonical form is returning a 200 OK status?

[Reno]

If there is a Webmasteer Tools account, I'd check it for information. If not, I'd set one up right away.

As tedster says, that's the place to start:

GWT > Sitemaps > Last Downloaded

If you see it was downloaded well after the propagation was complete, and you are still out of the SERPs, then you have at least eliminated one possibility -- that you're not being found by googlebot -- so you can then move on to other areas of investigation.

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