I have a small but distinct niche. My site is now one year old and I had just started to be trusted by Google and I was getting traffic. I also have a blog on my sub-domain. I literally overnight stopped getting traffic about 7 days ago. I went to my site hosted by GD and it said " if you are the owner of this site call this number". I immediately called GD and they tell me they had the wrong information on my credit card so they took my site offline! WTF!!! I have 4 other sites hosted with GD and they had the right card information. I was so mad.. I immediately changed all my domains to bluehost. Did making this change hurt me very bad? To make a long story short, I have completely lost my google traffic. When search for my web site name only my articles and links come up. My domain name does not even come up when I type it into google. Now Google is all over my sub-domain site which is my blog. Googlebot visits about 3 times a day. How can I get googlebot to crawl my main domain again. I have not had one visitor since 7 days ago.
It's good that you got a different web host I think your loss of traffic is only temporary. You can get the google bot to crawl your domain by using a sitemap and building backlinks.
There is nothing to worry. You site is not penalized by Google. It seems that GD is to blame for the scenario. The downtime your site had during your contentious issue with them -- might have caused Google bot not find your site and they thought the site no longer existed. Wait for some time-- let Google bot find your site again -and everything will be fine. The only problem is you will need a lot more time -again.
I've had the same issue with one of my websites! Perhaps the exact same thing! Google SERP's literally fluctuated overnight....it's been 6 weeks now and I still don't have the rankings I had before...despite the fact that I've been doing linkbuilding more now then before!...Shocking isn't it!
You should renew your domain names manually before they are expired, I don't trust the 'Auto Renew" feature to do that for me.
The site should eventually get indexed again. Add a few quality backlinks and some blog comments or directory links to help speed up the process. Adding adsense will also help the site get crawled fast. The google bot and adsense bot share the crawl load.
It's just a temporary. Continue to gather backlinks. Once your site get crawled again by spiders, your site also will start to have a traffic.
Thats why I don't like GD at all. Build backlinks, try to get some back links from high pages. And wait.
That's why GoDaddy SUCKS!@ Anyway, if U install SITEMAP in the Wordpress blog..it will be cached etc, and make sure yr SEO settings allow bots to index. good luck PS:took me 40 weeks to get my pagerank back since I migrated.
GD must have sent you emails before taking your site down did you not bother to respond ? I would never just up and change servers like that G dont like it as you found out. Your half to blame here I recon live and learn.
When you change hosts, you need to leave your site on the old hosting service up and running for at least 72 hours while the change in your domain's DNS (Domain Name Server) settings propagates throughout the web. If you just shut down the old service, users - including search engine robots - can end up receiving error messages about your site until the DNS settings get updated and begin to point to the new host.
This is a temporary setback. I advise you to leave the site as it was, so that Google has the same infomation to work with when it starts to spider the site gain.
Have you contacted to the support so they can help you with the correct redirects and parking, name services and such on? If something was done wrong, everything can be ****'ed up. Changing the host normally doesnt affect much, and things restore.