Movement of web site and vanished from google

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    I have helped someone move a static site that had sat there for 3 years to a new host and with a joomla wrapper.

    Before the site used to forward to another site where there was some free BT space.

    The site used to come up about 7th for a particular and not in demand search term and had done for years.

    The spiders must have come past yesterday and the site has now "vanished" from google.

    Can anyone give me an idea why this has happened - some of the key search terms were still there.

    Because we have moved the host and the site is now direct at the domain name may this have change how google is seeing things?
     
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    It is difficult to speculate on this without knowing the website and search term in question. It could be a number of reasons, from simple ones like:

    1. geographic location of new host for a .com site,
    2. having a robots.txt on the new site which says "don't index"

    to more complex ones like

    1. how seo'd the new site is in comparison with the old one (not just content)
    2. the way google reacts when it sees a completely new website structure and how the website appears on google during a transition period from old to new structure
    3. the process and time delay between google crawling and updating its live site
    4. google glitches
    etc
     
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    I moved an old 12 page site to Wordpress in December, which included re-creating the pages with new urls and 301's.

    It took 3 weeks for the site to be fully indexed correctly at the new urls.

    Hope that helps
     
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    Wow a nice lot of help for me to check out - thanks - time to learn about 301's ??

    All I did was change ISP - this meant that the previous forwarding was now history along with the site that it forwarded to - and install joomla onto the root directory and then add some content.

    If this did not cause the problem then it has occured to me that maybe the spiders came past between the install and content update.

    The site is www.skiptonmarket.net
     
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    Always do 301 redirect

    301 redirect is the most efficient and Search Engine Friendly method for webpage redirection. It's not that hard to implement and it should preserve your search engine rankings for that particular page. If you have to change file names or move pages around, it's the safest option. The code "301" is interpreted as "moved permanently".
     
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    It used to be there at about number 6 - bit of a miracle to me since it was a work experience project that never got finished and was not seo.

    Ask has it still.

    http://uk.ask.com/web?q=%22Skipton+Market+-Every+Monday%2C+Wednesday%2C%22&search=&dm=all&qsrc=0&o=312&l=dir&siteid=

    I am not sure what counts as moving to a new url. Before the url just forwarded to some free space on bt where the pages were built.

    The url was then moved from 1and1 to another that allowed a free joomla install to be made. Where the site now resides.
     
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    Page said:
    It used to be there at about number 6 - bit of a miracle to me since it was a work experience project that never got finished and was not seo.

    Ask has it still.

    http://uk.ask.com/web?q="Skipton+Ma...y,"&search=&dm=all&qsrc=0&o=312&l=dir&siteid=

    I am not sure what counts as moving to a new url. Before the url just forwarded to some free space on bt where the pages were built.

    The url was then moved from 1and1 to another that allowed a free joomla install to be made. Where the site now resides.
    Click to expand...

    Has the domain name stayed the same.?

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