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Clients domain expired - rankings lost - repurchased domain - what next?
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Its only been 10 days and i have repurchased the domain name/ renewed. The who is info, website and contact information is all still the same. However we have lost all rankings and i am hoping that our top rankings come back. Does anyone have experience with such a crappy situation?
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Hmm, yeah this is not the best position you want to be in. I would make sure that your Web site is listed in both Google Webmaster Tools as Bing Webmaster Tools. If you already are I would also really submit my sitemaps like 20 times to be sure that Google is aware that your pages need to be recrawled again in the hope that they then also will index them again and hope they will put them back on their old positions.
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I would wait and see if the rankings improve. I'm very sure that Google, Bing, etc. would not penalize significantly for a slight slip up because of someone forgetting to re-up their domain name. We are all human and I'm fairly certain that the ranking algorithms take that in to account to some degree. If a site was off for say a month or two, then I could see the site being completely dropped from the rankings in order to keep things fresh for the search results. However a site being offline for a week or two, probably not that significant of a hit. Give it a few weeks and I'm sure it'll start to recover as the bots see that the site is back up. These things take a little time to get going again.
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Oh someone has to have something for me......im freaking out here.
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