Moving To A New Dedicated Server Decreased Our Page Rank!?!

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by jvfconsulting, May 29, 2009.

  1. #1
    jvfconsulting.com moved over to new dedicated server over at liquid web last month and started on a new IP address. Before the recent Page Rank update we had a page rank of PR5, and as of the new Page Rank update we have PR3 on this page http://www.jvfconsulting.com/index.php and PR4 on this page http://www.jvfconsulting.com

    Is it possible our page rank decreased due to changing to a new server? We also noticed none of our other pages register and page rank at all! What is going on here? Please help!

    The pages used to have PR2!?! Not anymore!?!
    http://www.jvfconsulting.com/contact.php
    http://www.jvfconsulting.com/blog
    http://www.jvfconsulting.com/product.php
    http://www.jvfconsulting.com/service.php
    http://www.jvfconsulting.com/portfolio.php
    http://www.jvfconsulting.com/category/2/Web_Design.html
    http://www.jvfconsulting.com/category/1/Creative.html
    http://www.jvfconsulting.com/category/3/Business_Solutions.html

    This is the only other page on our website that kept its page rank of PR3!
    http://www.jvfconsulting.com/about.php
     
    jvfconsulting, May 29, 2009 IP
  2. w3bmaster

    w3bmaster Notable Member

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    Don't worry about PR

    Changing servers downtimes ip location ... is affecting rankings ...
     
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  3. Avisblr

    Avisblr Member

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    No, I don't think it is bcoz of move. PR depends upon the links to your Page.
     
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  4. catanich

    catanich Peon

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    When you move a site, there are many API Keys that break. This appears to have happened to you.

    Since I can not insert a "print screen" of the error, go to http://www.catanich.com/JVF-Consulting.htm to view it.

    Hope this helps...
     
    catanich, May 29, 2009 IP
  5. jvfconsulting

    jvfconsulting Active Member

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    Very good catch catanich!! I'm going to update all of our API keys right now. Thanks all for the help!
     
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    jvfconsulting Active Member

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    Actually catanich after looking into the API error there is not one at all! You were looking at the cached pages of Google search results, and of course it will bring up a bad api key because its not on our website. You can see in you URL bar that its accessing 74.125.47.132
     
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  7. PopaWoody

    PopaWoody Well-Known Member

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    No moving is not the issue. Google did a PR update, things move when they do that. They also changed the algorithm and weighting. Case in point twitter profiles. Ours dropped from a PR5 to a PR2. As did many, many other peoples twitter page, while twitter itself went from an 8 to a 9.

    It also has more backlinks than ever before, so go figure! I don't really care about that as our website went from 4 to a 5. Jolly good to me, now when I tackle the SEO before we roll out the new design/site features we should rank really well.
     
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  8. sultanofseo

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    your PR has nothing to do with your server move. while the timing might suggest that it has something to do with it, in reality it doesn't. PR comes from the backlinks and the PR of those pages that link back to you. if your PR was dropped, then you must have lost some backlinks since last PR update.
     
    sultanofseo, May 29, 2009 IP