After moving my website from one host to another my rankings for all key words which were #1/2 are now ranked between #8/10 because of this i have gone from 8000 uniqes to just 50, should i expect google to move my serps back up or am i screwed?
I dont think that change in host can effect ranking, if you second host is also working good. There can be some issue like if your second host is not working properly and its a bit slow then it can effect but if everything is normal then i think there will be other reason. I am saying because for one of my website server change two times (IP changed) but still site ranking is position is same. I have not more idea but i am sharing only my little experience and thought. Thanks
according to me their is no relation with your hosting company just check google webmaster tool. Check your indexed pages & links
I think moving hosting doesn't effect your google ranking sometimes google changes its algo for ranking web site, you can wait for a while google returns back your web site ranking
Just found a notice on gogole webmaster tools saying its found malware on one of my pages via iframe, ive removed it and requested than they look over it again. think this will fix it?
thats very strange really. i never seen that catastrophic changes in traffic with hosting change. from my experience i seen a little drop in traffic only. but after a while it gets back to normal. one possible cause could be your site was down for a substantial amount of time. is that the case?
The site was down less than 4 hours, its sill missing some of the other content it has such as images and forums however the majority of site the wordpress installation is exactly how it was on the other server, apart from the malware which is now fixed i cant see any other issues with the site, i hope i can get it working again. the site im having issues with is www.FairytailEpisode.com
I've had this problem twice this year. Once when my host messed up (long story) and I moved my domain to a new host. Site was down for 48 hours to 72 hours. Rankings has a slight change, like moved down a position or two, but returned within a week. Most rankings did not change though Second time was when I did not renew my second most popular domain - hosting company who also did the domain registration had the wrong email details (still trying to figure that one out). Was out of town when it happened and by the time I got back, brought up the issue with the hosting company, it was about 5 to 6 days that passed. In this instance the rankings went right down, some disappeared etc for about 2 weeks but then returned. If you had the rankings and links and so on, it should return. I learned one valuable lesson from all this - spend a little extra on reliable hosting companies.
I've had this problem twice this year. Once when my host messed up (long story) and I moved my domain to a new host. Site was down for 48 hours to 72 hours. Rankings has a slight change, like moved down a position or two, but returned within a week. Most rankings did not change though Second time was when I did not renew my second most popular domain - hosting company who also did the domain registration had the wrong email details (still trying to figure that one out). Was out of town when it happened and by the time I got back, brought up the issue with the hosting company, it was about 5 to 6 days that passed. In this instance the rankings went right down, some disappeared etc for about 2 weeks but then returned. If you had the rankings and links and so on, it should return. I learned one valuable lesson from all this - spend a little extra on reliable hosting companies.
Well, it cant be the malware, that problem is fixed now and still no serps. guess there never coming back x.x
If you only removed the malware yesterday, I would have thought that it would take a few days for Google to recrawl and see your site as "clean". My hunch is that your SERPS should return to normal in a few days, provided your site is exactly as it was before.
I checked google webmasters tools, they have taken the malware warning off. eitherway im hoping my ranks come back soon, ive spent countless hours on the details for this site
Were you switching your hosting for a long time? Did you perform SEO work while you were switching? I don't think hosting has anything to do with search engine results
Look really very difficult to digest how this can happen as i never face such problems in past 2 and 1/2 years. I had changed 3 time but no problems till date.
no there is no any effect of server change on ranking but u need to check page load time, server speed, is there any problem in server.