Traffic Drop due to changin server ?

Discussion in 'Web Hosting' started by phys, Aug 28, 2010.

  1. #1
    Hello,


    Our server hosted in canada until June, then we moved website to another server in Germany.
    In this movement, there were no bad things, no drop in visitors etc.
    Between June and August 16, number of visitors increased over time. ( 1.250 unique/day)

    On August 16, we moved our server to vps.net hosting ( in Salt Lake City) and then to Chicago
    After this move, our visitors decreased dramatically( 600 visitors/day ). I think our backlinks became meaningless etc.
    Also our adsense revenue decreased by 3 times.

    we backed to Germany host, bu no luck :(
    now our site is in UK hosting.

    What do you think about all of these? what do you suggest us? I checked our backlinks and I saw many of them are gone

    Sincerely yours.

    Note: our url is www.laser-beauty-cosmetics.com
     
    phys, Aug 28, 2010 IP
  2. mentos

    mentos Prominent Member

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    #2
    Do check your IP is whether blacklisted before or not?
     
    mentos, Aug 29, 2010 IP
  3. mubashirnisar

    mubashirnisar Banned

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    #3
    it can be a dns issue,are you running it on cpanel?
     
    mubashirnisar, Aug 29, 2010 IP
  4. phys

    phys Peon

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    #4
    How can I check this?
     
    phys, Aug 29, 2010 IP
  5. phys

    phys Peon

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    Yes , I am using Cpanel.
    ?
     
    phys, Aug 29, 2010 IP
  6. mubashirnisar

    mubashirnisar Banned

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    #6
    cehck the dns entries,sometime it grabs the old dns entries which cause site to not load for users
     
    mubashirnisar, Aug 29, 2010 IP
  7. jeffatrackaid

    jeffatrackaid Active Member

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    Though I do not have explicit proof, I have seen accounts of traffic drops post server migration. If you bounce around too much, Google may suspect something odd is happening with your domain. This is pure speculation but I've seen similar issues with a couple of clients that bounced to 3-4 hosts within a couple of months.

    From the DNS standpoint, it can take up to a 3 days or even longer for DNS to fully propagate out. If during your move, you took down your old server before DNS had fully migrated, then Googlebot may have seen your site as down.

    Have you checked your SERPs?
    Can you tell what traffic sources have dropped off?

    These will provide some clues as to the issue.

    In general, I recommend leaving the old server in place until Google and other major bots have searched your site 3-4 times at the new location. We typically use proxying to limit downtime during migration processes.
     
    jeffatrackaid, Aug 29, 2010 IP
  8. phys

    phys Peon

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    I checked SERPs and I saw that google puts my site at least 2-3 pages back.
    My website's visitors are coming mainly from search engines ( over %90 google searches )
     
    phys, Aug 29, 2010 IP
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    swiftnomad Active Member

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    just remember that the loss of traffic can also be because their dns hasn't propagated.
     
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  10. mubashirnisar

    mubashirnisar Banned

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    well then you are been penalized for some other reason,not due to changing the server,and you can say thats a coincident you changed your server at sametime,
     
    mubashirnisar, Aug 30, 2010 IP
  11. etc

    etc Well-Known Member

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    if the ip isn't block listed then it might just take weeks before the traffic will be back to normal.
    but then it could be because some hosting company help their clients to gain visitors and exposures.
     
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    chnage it also in your webmaster tool
     
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  13. phys

    phys Peon

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    I remembered that I changed " Preferred domain" to " Display URLs as www laser-beuty-cosmetics com " from " Don't set a preferred domain" on 18 July. ( exactly 1 month before that issue happened )
    do you think it is related to this setting ?
    maybe moving site is just an coincidence
     
    phys, Aug 30, 2010 IP