heimdall asked 4 years agoI 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:
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:
22 Answers
elgoog answered 4 years ago
still available on the original shared ip address,
that might be the problem…..
heimdall answered 4 years ago
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!
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