Google, what are you doing? Ranking trouble after changing whois info.

[mike2010]

One of my sites has gone completely off the radar , after being at the number 1 spot for a particular keyword for awhile.

usually when Google Dance fluctuations occur, the site will only disappear for a couple days at most. But its been like 2 weeks now.

And I have done NOTHING to the site or advertising of the site.

The ONLY thing that changed was the 'domain name registration info'. I did this only to privatize that particular domain name.

The only option available to have private registration for my particular hosting company (ViaVerio / Melbourne) , is to make it look like phoney / fake info.

So yeah, everything has changed DNR wise, except for the DNS hosting name. that remained the same.

How can this happen, that Google would throw me completely in the dark because of a DNR change ? Should I change it back....would it help ?

[edited by: tedster at 10:08 pm (utc) on Apr 29, 2011]
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[tedster]

That's a difficult situation. You have only a time relationship to go by, and that is always touchy when you're hoping to analyze cause and effect.

If the change in Domain Name Registration is truly the cause, it sounds like the situation might need a manual fix from Google. Have you considered that? Either filing a reconsideration request or posting in Google's own Webmaster forums to get some engineer eyes on the situation?

[zerillos]

G is known to re-calculate rankings if the domain name registration info changes (especially the owner info). From my experience, if the site remains the same as before, rankins will return eventually, but not at the exact same level. I'm talking from my experience. It may not apply to your case.

Changing the dns info means you changed hosting services, but changing the domain name registration implies a new owner which could imply different content.

I hope i got your question right...

[mike2010]

miraculously , just this morning I returned back to #1 position.

how the heck.... ?

I didn't talk to anyone.. (just my post here)

[edited by: tedster at 10:09 pm (utc) on Apr 29, 2011]
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[TheMadScientist]

There's no tellling ... Maybe someone at Google read your post, did the proverbial 'head slap', remembered they forgot to reset the 'experimental' filters, logged in and double clicked on it?

Of course, then again, maybe GoogleBot found your post and felt bad, so he took matters into his own hands...

[mike2010]

There's no tellling ... Maybe someone at Google read your post, did the proverbial 'head slap', remembered they forgot to reset the 'experimental' filters, logged in and double clicked on it?

Of course, then again, maybe GoogleBot found your post and felt bad, so he took matters into his own hands...

we have similar minds.

I blame it on our computers that keep us hostage all day.

6 hours a day or longer behind this thing and I practically turn into a computer..

arghh

[edited by: tedster at 10:09 pm (utc) on Apr 29, 2011]
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