In December my website's domain name registration was set to automatically renew. But since the search engines didn't know it was going to automatically renew they thought it was expiring at the end of December. So for most of December my website was gone from the search results for google, yahoo, and msn. After my domain renewed my website was back in the search results in January, and everything seemed fine. Fast forward to the end of February, and poof my website is still indexed by Google, but my pages aren't showing up for any search results. With the update looming, I've read that some data centers are using rolled back data, does this mean that google is using the December data when my site wasn't in the search results. I've checked all the datacenters and my site isn't showing. So should I not worry and hope my site will comeback? My site hasn't receive d much traffic from google in the last 2 weeks and with 1/3 of my revenue coming from google search results I'm suffering. Thanks for any input.
If your domain was going to automatically renew and didn't go offline once then it should have stayed in the search engines. It would only really disapear if you had done something wrong or the website was unaccessible I would imagin.
Correct. Just one more example of superstitious thinking. It's called "coincidence", StevenQ12. They do happen. That's why we have a word to describe them.
this is all bs. SE's have no idea when your domain is going to get renewed. This has nothing to do with your serp. There is something else your doing wrong.
So you guys are saying that google doesnt care about how long a domain name is registered for? Look at this article: http://www.searchenginepromotionhelp.com/m/articles/site-content-design/google-domain-names.php
I have not read the article, but anyway what I have read above and also said myself and what you have said quote above are 2 totally different things. Google does take in mind when ranking a site by how long it has been online / how long the domain has been registered. But we are not saying that and have not even mentioned it no where. What we have said is that a site will not go offline just because it is about to run out. If this was the case then google will be pulling results from the database daily for thousands of sites. Google will not know when you are going to re-register your domain or even if you will keep doing it. They will only take your site off theirs once the site becomes unaccessiable.
Of all the hundreds of criteria that Google could use for their scoring - the truth is that nobody really knows how they are weighted. If someone claims they know the criteria, they're probably trying to sell you something. We can safely assume though that anchor text, link authority, age of the domain and others play a far larger role than how long a domain is registered into the future.