6 week old site, server down 9hrs, now gone?!

ccgr · Share | #1 (**permalink**) 03-11-2007, 03:08 PM

My newest website www.videogameworkout.net used to be #4, #5 in google with the search words video game workout, my apache wigged out the other night and now it's out of the listings. Google bot was on the site a couple times today but it's still nowhere to be found. Has this happened to anyone else? How long did it take to get back on? Unfortunately the site is too new for a PR or a cache I guess

**Cricket** · #2 (**permalink**) 03-11-2007, 04:09 PM

You may not be in the top of the search results, but your site is not out of the listings. You currently have 60 pages indexed in Google. However, all but just a few of your pages are supplemental results.

ramanean · #3 (**permalink**) 03-13-2007, 01:03 AM

I think it would take time for you to reach the top of the listings

Also If any new site climbs up in search engine ranks quickly they would put the site in sandbox(they woudl penalize the site in rankings)

ccgr · #4 (**permalink**) 03-13-2007, 07:27 AM

back in the top 10 again googlebot reindexed my index

Sideways · #5 (**permalink**) 03-13-2007, 05:13 PM

That didn't take too long, what 24 hours?

ccgr · #6 (**permalink**) 03-13-2007, 06:08 PM

3-4 days

Brave7 · #7 (**permalink**) 03-13-2007, 07:48 PM

That happen sometimes, search engines should not penalize websites for technical problems. Unfortunetely, I had a bad experience with a hosting company, server was down for more then 3 weeks, lost was pretty heavy in term of orders, ranking etc... In this case google is pretty fair and should not change this way. Technical problems happen, and you cannot do anything else then just wait for server repairs, or switch hosting company.