I had most of my sites down for a month for technical problems, how do I recover my SEO status ?
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I had most of my sites down for a month for technical problems, how do I recover my SEO status ?
I did everything possible to not get offline, but I did, some months before my domais were extremely slow, leading to failures over failures. I got them down and moved to another host. What should I do in SEO know that the mess is done ?
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aamato,
I don't know how many you had up or how large they are and that would be helpful. Assuming they are smaller there are two things that will help. First, resubmit the sitemaps to Google. In that way you are letting them know you are up and going.
If they are smaller and if you are familiar with Webmaster Tools (WMT), go into WMT and Fetch each url as Google. (per site you can only do up to 1000 per month, but I would not do if sites are hundreds of pages except for home page, etc.)
I have attached a screen shot of the WMT Dashboard, note that Fetch as Google is under Health.
If you have any problems, here is a help link.
Once you are recrawled, you should start to see your rankings rising. Obviously, if you have lost traffic over the time you were down, it will take longer.
Hope that helps,
Robert
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