Huge loss of traffic & ranking after server move!!

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by ikidunot, Jul 30, 2012.

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    Hi,

    I'm sure this has been covered in the past but I recently moved 3 sites from the previous owners server to my server.
    I have lost huge traffic & ranking in Google.
    Is this common?
    How can I restore site rankings?
    Please advise.

    Thanks
     
    ikidunot, Jul 30, 2012 IP
  2. tornado!

    tornado! Active Member

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    As long as the domain was a clean transfer (not dropped), your ranks should return. I suspect there was some downtime with DNS. If this is the case, your problem is temporary. But you may want to take a look at the URLs to make sure something did not go afoul with URL rewrites.
     
    tornado!, Jul 30, 2012 IP