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Topic: Deindexed? or something else?

Hi everyone,

2 weeks ago, I migrated my jobsite to a new hosting server.
Prior to that, if you search jobs here in the Philippines, you can see my site on the first 3 pages most of the time on google results.

During the migration, I encountered some problems and my site was down for two days.
My problem is, I cannot see my site on the google results page after that!
Okay I'm exaggerating... You can still see my site if you are able to browse the results page as far as the 7th page. Worst if you can't still find it!

Now my question is, what happened?
And will I be able to get back on top?

Haha! Sorry, I am getting a little impatient because I have no idea what happened to my site.
Now... to the great minds out there, please enlighten me!

Thanks you so much!

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netvalue

Re: Deindexed? or something else?

Hello,

Please find my replies as below:

1) Was your site ranking on top 3 pages just prior to migration or weeks before migration? This you need to make out. If it was down much before migration, this issue has nothing to do with migration.
2) Also even some top performing sites will be temporarily shut down due to server hangups or even in case of regular temporary maintenance schedules. Search Engines don't penalize them for any temporary shutdown.  This can also happen in case of sudden software crash or a major hack on the site sometimes. So what I mean to say is that your migration shouldn't be an issue at all if you say just for 2 days!

3) Now the point of indexed or deindexed: Your site is already indexed since you only said it's showing up on page 7 or so instead of top of the pages. If you use the term 'Deindexed' it may mean penalized or banned by Search Engines or you might have used robots to stop engines crawling your site. So let's not get into that 'Deindexed' and it doesn't apply to your case at all!

4) Now coming to alternative outcomes, something else: This technically if you check your cached copy of your site from the particular search engine you're talking about, it will give an idea when was it last crawled before. If it was before migration, cool! Else if it did happened during the shut down, the Search Engines have algorithm to track such temporary shut downs and may retry accessing your site. But for now you should find out the cached copied dated by just clicking on 'Cached' on your site search engine results.

5) This is a SEO question in general and may not be relevant to jobberbase site seo.

But still i like to reply to your questions as they're very interesting. Hope you got some clarification.

Thanks

www.SEOFastGuide.com

jobsbulletin

Re: Deindexed? or something else?

Hi netvalue,

First of all, I really appreciate the effort made and thank you so much for the answers.
I am now more informed. I will just do more effort on the SEO and wait to get back on top again.

Thanks again!

http://www.jobsbulletin.ph - Jobs Bulletin Philippines :: Where jobs and skills meet!
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dave_35

Re: Deindexed? or something else?

Your site is still crawled by Google's bots as you said you're still in the search result of Google (even though it's on the 7th page). Try checking your links and compare it to the records you've had before. Some of your links might probably come from profiles which may change overtime, and the links get lost. Or better yet like the previous copy, check the cached copy of your site. Hope this helps.