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Rankings lost due to domain ownership transfer
Question: I recently purchased a website from someone that had operated the business for 3 years and had at least top ten rank on most search engines. During the transfer of ownership the site was down for about ten days. I lost the excellent page rankings. Do you think this ranking will come back when re-spidered? Should I re-register with the search engines? How much do you charge for the search engine submission? Thanks
-J.
Answer: That is a bummer on the transfer taking ten days. Usually you can do those with no downtime at all; I’ve done that many times for my clients.
It may take a while but yes, it’s likely that your site will come back up in the rankings after being re-spidered, etc. Make sure you have a proper
sitemap.xml file, and that you list it in your robots.txt file so the search engines know it is there.
If you’ve lost all your rankings, then it would be a good idea to re-submit the site. You can do that here: http://www.wordsinarow.com/wheretogo.html.
Or we can do that process for you. We register a site by hand in the top 30 directories (and a couple of search engines). We charge $450 for that
service, mainly because it is very time consuming to do it right, by hand.
We don’t recommend submitting to search engines — they will find your site if it is listed in important directories like Yahoo or ODP or GoGuides.com.
You can do your own submissions using this software, to about 2500 directories, some paid and some free. We recommend doing only the free ones and those that do not require a reciprocal link: http://directorysubmitter.imwishlist.com/
Best,
Jeré Matlock
http://www.wordsinarow.com
Website Design & Marketing / SEO
