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I have three big sites and a number of smaller ones on a dedicated server, and recently split them up across three dedicated servers for a number of reasons.
All of the three larger sites were consistently listed in the top five results for their keywords, and now only the site that remained on the same server has stayed put. The other two are completely out of the top 100.
Question now is why.
Did the filenames change at all?
Are you sure that MSN sees the IP numbers of the new servers as residing in the same country as the main server?
If you have moved the sites, then you must have done at least some change at the DNS level to point the domains to the new site - are you absolutely sure you are not using a redirection method that would cause the new sites to drop out?
Hopefully one of the above is true, as this may provide a solution.
I'm still hoping that this is a result of MSN being (seemingly) highly dynamic. I have good content and thousands of incoming links from respected sites like DMOZ, Yahoo!, even quite a few .gov's, and I believe things will work themselves out.
At least, that's what I keep telling myself.
No changes at all besides what IP the DNS points to
Use your favourite search engine to find a free "geolocator" and see if they recognize the new IP number as being in the same country as you think it should be in - I found out yesterday that one of my main IP numbers has a 50% certainty level of being in Norway! (the server is in London... honest guv - at least, that's where it was when I bought it...)
Apart from that - report back in a few days so we can see if it is indeed the highly dynamic nature of MSN.
Additionally, if I do a reverse IP lookup, I'm getting an error that says "No data seems to be available. IP doesn't have any domains."
