Recently I have done a lot of SEO work on my website http://www.kronikmedia.co.uk and http://www,.estateagentwebsite.com. My work in the first phase was mainly to improve my ranking in search engines and I managed to get OK results. The hits were not thousands but about 700 highly targeted visits mainly from Google searches for our services such as estate agent web design and Joomla development.

After a while it has stagnated and started going down in spite of our continued efforts in adding genuine new content on our website nd press releases. IS it just a temporary fall or are we over optimsing.

Thanks for the comments.

It should’nt do, if you make sure you cover as many bases as possible.

Set the whole site up on the new servers and test it. To do this without changing the DNS, you can stuff your hosts file with the new websites IP, so you can see how it would look and work.

http://accs-net.com/hosts/how_to_use_hosts.html

See where they have :

127.0.0.1 localhost

well add your ip and domain name:

111.111.111.111 http://www.yourdomain.com

Then when you go to that url windows will force where it looks.

Once you are happy with the site, you can change the DNS over, make sure you leave the old site up as DNS and domain changes can take a couple of days to propagate. So if someone with old DNS will see the old server (this can be an issue if they can update the site somehow, but that is a different issue). Then check your web forms and generally look through your site.

Make sure that you have all the packages on the new server as well, like php5 or whatever your chosen is.

If you have any specific Q’s shout them up.

Rich

First time here, great post

My wife and I run a website and we are about to move servers will this have an effect on our search engine results?

Thanks for your advice

Is certfit the site you are talking about?

Have you viewed the source of your site, it have virtually no content, is is a frame page.

For me the first step would be to get the site out of the frames, this is quite easy from the looks of it.

Take out the non www version and redirect in to the www version using a 301.

After you have done this you can make sure you have good title on each page, that mirrors the content of that specific page.

As a wild guess you sort of have duplicate content issues which you should try and take care of and when fixed you can review and see if you have any other issues.

Heres a problem I did not see addressed. Our site was consistantly ranking 2nd page for the last month when doing a specific keyword search (auto body parts). Today at 9am same results. When I checked back again at 11am the site was nowhere to be found. After going through 87 pages I found this -

“In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 864 already displayed.
If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included.”

After I repeated the search with omitted results, the site came up again on the second page. I am stumped as to what could have caused this. No changes were made to the site during this time (or the day before). Now the site will not show unless the link is clicked to show omitted resutls.

Please help. I’m not sure where to procede with this. Thank you.

I would consider looking at the site itself first. Your front page has a lot of kw stuffing on it imho.

Your in a position now that may require a little waiting. Whilst waiting though, don’t rest, get more links and add more content.

How long have you been dropped?

My site is over a year old, and I got on 1st and 2nd page results on Google for all of my keywords (even without many back links).
Then I have created and submitted Google site-map, with top priority for main page (it vent like that 1, 0.9, 0.8, 0.7, 0.6, 0.6, 0.6, 0.5,) And then I was drooped to about 10th page results for 90% of my keywords.
Thinking that something is wrong with the site-map I have submitted another one, that vent like that (0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, for all pages) that didn’t help either.
So I deleted entirely site-map from my server, hoping that I can at least get back on 2nd page results, as I was before without sitemaps, especially now when I have about 50 good back links and PR-2, and that also didn’t help.
I opened Google Webmaster Tools account and Google Analytics along with submitting the Site-map, and I found a lot of posts from people that did the same thing and they also got dropped right after doing so?!

I’m really confused right now, please help me! Thank you.

I have one question, will change of IP affect the website rankings? Please advise.

Pratheep