My domain expired for 5 days and i lost my #1 rank

I have a site that ranked #1 in google for some relevant keywords, but the domain was expired for 5 days in godaddy and i lost my high ranking. Will my ranking be restored after i renewed and my site was back up, or am i basically starting from scratch one it was dropped?

 

You can still renew the domain after the expiry date. Did the site go offline?

 

Once it drops and the date resets, start from scratch... according to my knowledge.


However, setting up the same exact site should get things rolling like before.

 

dont worry you will get your rank back in few weeks !!

 

if the domain was not important enough for you to renew then google doesent think it is important enough to be number 1.

LOL

 

It will take a while before you get your rankings back.
Pay more attention next time or set your domain on auto renewal.

 

Hum, Zexy is you are 100% right.
We need to care about it.

 

yah, auto renewal is imrpotant. for my bread butter sites, i have them renewed 1-2 yrs ahead !

 

if you are keeping the backlinks, renew it and wait a bit. your ranks will come back

 

Uptime counts in RANKING but you should get those back ...

 

Just renew the domain, and wait for Googlebot to crawl your site. If you already have quality backlinks, it should rank as it used to be.

 

ya renew ur domain

 

dont' worry about that, keep same url structure , you will get back to normal listing with in few weeks.

 

Wait for few days, may be few weeks, and your site will be back in the old search results.

 

Thanks for your responses. The site was down for about 5 days because the domain was expired and Godaddy points the nameservers to their parked page. I renewed the domain and the site is back up (i was hosting elsewhere, so once it was renewed the site was instantly back up once Godaddy pointed it back at my host). I will let you know how the ranking goes.

 

Haha, so true. It shows you i truly didn't care enough about this site. A good way to weed out all the BS.

 

I'm curious to see what the site url is ?

 

go to webmaster central and send a msg explaining the situation, u wil be back b4 90 days

 

You'll be back pretty quickly. Won't be starting from scratch.

 

It wont be from scratch, you can get back to the top spot. It would require some effort if there is too much competition on that category of domain.