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I sure hope someone can help me with this, I paid for a dedicated ip address from my hosting company back in July but somewhere along the lines they screwed up and it wasn’t properly enabled so I’ve been on the regular shared ip address for the last 4 months and my site has been going from strength to strength. Then 1 week ago I noticed the mistake and got the webhosting to enable the dedicated ip address for me. The result has been a dramatic fall in serps but again only on bloody Google. In the meantime I have been pumping in loads of original content. I can only conclude that Google doesn’t like dedicated ip addresses despite everyone claiming they do. Why is Google so damned sensitive to stuff like this, it really annoys me.
I am hoping that this is just a temporary blip and that the site will bounce back but in the meantime I am getting next to no traffic on a site which Google really liked 1 week ago but now because of a new ip address apparently really hates!!
I guess my question is whether anybody else has ever seen this with Google and I also hope that someone can tell me that it will all be ok again please. :eh:“Bump”, maybe someone will reply this time, I live in hope. :CallMe:
IP address change counts a big change for Google, give it more time and you will be back to the SERPs.
I wouldn’t advise to upload lots of content at the same time, one big change is enough for Google, try to upload the new content in little bits, not all of them at once, that might seem suspicious for the big G along with the IP change.Don’t give up, it is just a temporary decline after drastical changes, it takes time to settle the things back on track (2-3 weeks at least).
Hope it helps
You should be fine. I don’t think twice about changing hosts. It doesn’t seem to make an ioda of difference long term – as long as it geolocates to the same country.
If your site is about uk and you change to us ip that will make a difference.
Thanks a lot for your replies, they really do help give me some peace of mind. It’s just so annoying when you’ve been working hard to suddenly see a site slump. It could also be that I’ve been adding a bit too much content lately so I’ll shift my focus to some of my other sites for a few weeks I think and cross my fingers
I never had a problem changing IP’s, even from the US to Belgium location,
but i don’t understaand quite…
you changed IP, and the content stayed on the same host?@elgoog 183812 wrote:
I never had a problem changing IP’s, even from the US to Belgium location,
but i don’t understaand quite…
you changed IP, and the content stayed on the same host?Hi mate, it is the same webhost but I just had the site on a shared hosting plan before, where basically 10 websites all have the same ip address. I think that is why it is not possible to do any kind of redirect so Google probably thinks two ip addresses have identical content, just hope it figures out quickly that it’s the same site, stupid Google!! There hasn’t been any effect whatsoever on any of the other search engines.
soooo… 301 is not possible…
deleting content on the other ipis not possible…
if i understand right?than google will soon figure out the content on the other ip is gone…
…. i hope for you…Maybe there is just a coincidence about the ip? we have changed many site ips ,from one country to another and never noticed anything .
Changing to a dedicated server if definitely a good thing. A temporary drop shouldn’t go for more than 3-5 days, if at all.
What may have happened is that Google hit you site and saw the new IP and decided to run a deep crawl and re-value the content, the backlink value or other elements that their algo checks.
Any pages or information on another server will not be an issue as the domain name directs the bot.
Adding load of new content written for existing keyword targeting may be confusing the bots or causing them to lower the value or split the value between the old and the new pages, which would reduce your ranking. Its tough to say without looking at the site.
To be safe, run Xenu link sleuth and check for broken links and make sure you don’t have any 302’s, create an xml sitemap and manually submit it through google webmaster central, and also place the code (if possible) to verify the site is yours and check it the next day to see if you have any errors on the site.
Monitor the cache dates to see what the last snapshot was taken of the site/pages that are targeting the terms that are losing their rankings. If this date was before the drop, then the above tips will resolve the issue.
Oh, one more thing. This is non-related but if your going to look at the above issues you may as well be sure that you have assigned a primary domain through webmaster central as well.
Websites can have more than one URL. (e.g. http://www.bluewidgets.com and http://www.bluewidgets.co.uk). If you have been around for a while and people are linking to you they could be linking to either URL. By designating a primary it gets 100% of the above benefits. Go to Google’s Webmaster Central and in the tools section designate one as your primary. Do a 301 redirect on the non-primary page to pass on any back link juice, PR and authority that the page has to the primary page. Internal navigation needs to be checked to be sure all links go to the correct version as well. Bad navigation is common, especially with websites constantly being populated or worked on by many individuals. Pick one and use it throughout.
GaryTheScubaGuy
The site in question is http://www.high-rollercasinos.com which was ranking badly for the term high-roller casinos, about position 43, then jumped to position 3, held it for about 2 months and has now plummeted down to about position 50. As said the only thing that changed apart form me pumping in loads of unique content etc was that I changed from a shared ip address to a dedicated ip address. The site itself should be fine I always check for 404 errors etc and it is doing fine at the moment although it does show a lot of page not found errors from around the time I switched the ip addresses over which is a bit odd. I have designated a primary host and all the other things so that’s why I’m at a loss. If it is a case of Google rechecking my site and deciding its crap then I might as well just give up, because if adding unique content and getting links is wrong then I’m not sure what I should do instead.
One potential problem I thought about is that the content is still available on the original shared ip address, that is how dedicated ip addresses work I think, that they are basically just a redirect. Hopefully Google will figure this out eventually like all the other bots already seem to have done!
still available on the original shared ip address,
that might be the problem…..
I agree but I’m not sure what I can do about it short of moving to a new hosting provider which I’d rather not do. I will have a word with them and find out what they suggest.
Hi Guys,
I hope you don’t take any of my comments the wrong way if I disagree with any of them. I’m really not meaning to be argumentative, just state the facts when and IF I know them.
Anyhow, dynamic IP’s are handled no differently than dedicated (unlike in the past) servers with one exception; If the server is overloaded and therefore slows your site down, potentially enough to serve a load error, then this may affect your rankings.
Bad neighbourhoods refer to this statement by Matt Cutts, ” If your sister companies are just linked at the footer of the page, in hopes of cross-advertising or getting more links, it’s not likely to add value to ranking or the user. In extreme cases, if it’s a bad neighbourhood, these links will certainly not help you.”
Its been a widely used piece of advice in the past when spammers or blackhat style sites (malware) were being targeted, but since then Google has figured out how to identify and filter these. But these days you are safe on dynamic and shared servers.
GaryTheScubaGuy
