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Site almost gone from google index after host and IP change

         

zeus

6:20 pm on Feb 16, 2011 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Hello - I noticed yesterday and special today that the stats are going way down, then I had a look at google, made a site:http://www.mydomain.com then I found 3 pages of my site and rest was "domain name info" scraper sites, but thats not my worry, the point is when i click show all from my domain I see 9 pages, but most with fresh cache 16feb, also in my logs googlebot was there
Googlebot 18599+27 942.68 MB Last 16 Feb 2011 - 01:26

Now I think this is just google that has deleted my site plus images from there index and are now respidering the whole site with new IP, could that be?, be cause this is the situation for all my sites.

The hosting/ip change was done 11 feb.

Robert Charlton

9:14 pm on Feb 16, 2011 (gmt 0)

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zeus - When you made the change, was the site running on both the old IP and the new one while your DNS was propagating... or did the old site shut down for a while?

If both sites were running and you have independent control of your DNS, the DNS propagation should have been seamless. If you had to change DNS servers when you changed hosts, then your site was inaccessible for a while. Assuming all is OK with the new setup, Google should eventually re-index it with no problems.

If DNS servers were changed, propagation may take an extra several days. In part, that will depend on TTL (Time To Live) DNS cache settings on various DNS servers around the world.

See this recent discussion for additional comments on several details which might apply....

Server and IP change - Google removed homepage
http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4260393.htm [webmasterworld.com]

zeus

10:21 pm on Feb 16, 2011 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



was running on both servers, old server stopped late 15.02 - I did see for 1 day that the stats went down and also noticed that it was the changes to ip and sites sql with new server info. I have noticed now that it was only on google.com and that all sites are there again.. thanks for the reply