I moved servers and i have lost traffic from Google to my site? Why?

I moved servers and i have lost traffic from Google to my site? Why?

My new server has a different IP, is that the reason why?

Also, will i get my traffic back? If so, when? Months? Days?

Thanks.

 

I dont think changing ur host will lead to ranking drop...may be some other reason.

 

Changing of an IP do not result in the decrease in traffic on your site, this may be a temporary problem from Google and will surely cover up. Don't lose hope and get ready with your new server.

 

there are 1000s of different possible reasons to see traffic drop, it could just be a coincidence.

have you checked to see if all your pages are still there? perhaps you did not upload some by accident, or are using an old robots.txt that is blocking a portion of your site.

where is your target market? if you are targeting people in USA, you should host your website in the USA.

If you moved to an foreign server this could be the reason...

 

If your site has maintained the same url then you could lose traffic because Google has made some changes to its indexing and ranking algorithms and hence most of the sites are experiencing the same problem.

 

I agree with the others; did you upload all your content? Google might have done an index update and you could have gone down in the rankings some, could be a slow day for people searching the web......could be thousands of reason why traffic declined.

 

IP belongs to a country. People can claim that they have USA or UK based host, because they are based in the USA physicaly, however, if you check their IP it could be Belize or something else.
Check IP and what country it belongs to

 

In some cases, when you change server of your site, google will de-index and re-index your site, and this process will take days to weeks to complete as google will slowly do the process depending on how fast their spider crawls. It's not a penalty, and as when the process is complete, it will be placed to where it belongs.

 

Unfortunately, changing IPs can cause a drop in rank with G. This is just part of the way the algorithm works, nothing you can do at this point but keep building your website.

 

If the servers are of high quality and have great uptime status, the fluctuations in rankings will not take that long and as mentioned, after some days or a week, the rankings could return to the normal status once again.

 

hmmmmm that is it...

 

You better check your Host county. You should keep your host on the same country. It really effects.

 

Its in the same country.

I have lost alot of traffic...i shouldnt have moved.

 

Have u deleted all files in your old site hosting & shut down it?

otherwise, you may be get duplicated content punishment... check this...

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/moving-to-a-new-web-host/

 

Was your site shut down for quite sometime? And your domain was inaccessible, then in midtime google changed some indexing and your site was regarded as dead and lost all rankings. If site is back and has same urls, ranking should be brought back up slowly.

 

Maybe your new server has some spamming/bad sites hosted in the same IP of your site. That's why you got banned by Google!

 

use online tool to do a simulated robot/google crawl of your site to find out if you have any 404/blocked files

 

Very rarely this may happen that the IP you are currently on may have been blacklisted before. Check out the IP in Google and if anything bad comes up then get a dedi ip.

Also, it can be because maybe your site has been hacked or you have changed the way Google spider sees your link you know (in sitemap)