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Down time, lost keyword ranking, etc.

Discussion in 'Keyword Tracker' started by dkalweit, May 19, 2004.

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    Hello. Due to an unfortunate incident last week, my sites lost Internet accessibility for 40 hours. In this time, one of the sites(http://www.sensiblesoftware.com/) lost about half the keywords according to the keyword tracking tool(they jumped to N/A). I've waited a few days, and they still haven't come back-- not even to a 100+ ranking... Is there anything I can do to help these come back?

    I've taken the first steps in switching hosts-- just waiting for the process to go through. Hopefully this will defend against unfortunate incidents in the future... Thanks.
     
    dkalweit, May 19, 2004 IP
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    You are just going to need to wait for Google to respider the site...

    - Shawn
     
    digitalpoint, May 19, 2004 IP
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    dkalweit Well-Known Member

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    It should have re-spidered by now(it spiders every 2-3 days or so, and it's been up again for 5+ days now). I'm kinda curious why only half the keywords dropped and not all of them...
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    No idea... were those keywords on different pages?

    - Shawn
     
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    dkalweit Well-Known Member

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    Nope-- all the keywords were on the main page and the one specific sub page, which I track both... My other site didn't lose any keywords during it's 48 hours of downtime, but rather stayed at the top. of the SERPs, throughout.


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    Strange... no idea though. The keyword tracker doesn't really tell why a ranking is (or is not) there. It simply reports on what is in Google. So probably the only ones that could really answer the question would be Google.

    - Shawn
     
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    It also might not be a downtime issue at all, could be something totally different.
     
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    dkalweit Well-Known Member

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    Of course. I was just looking to see if anyone with more Google knowledge than me had any idea. Thanks.
     
    dkalweit, May 20, 2004 IP
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    I have heard thru newsletters that several have had their pages jump in page rank at first, only to fall off after a month or so. It had something to do with how google was re-vamping their search strategies for relevant content.

    It may be unrelated to your downtime . . . It may be google's search tatics . . .
     
    rfuess, Jun 11, 2004 IP
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    It will take some time for your lost keywords to come up again. I also faced this problem earlier and it took approx 20 days for the keywords to resurface.
     
    vlead, Jun 15, 2004 IP