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Thanks for your response, most of the urls remained the same and the small amount that weren't were 301'd correctly.

The things we are noticing are some less optimal anchors and the HTML site map missing but the XML site map correct.

I will look into the possibility of toxic links but I think this is less likely as there are not too many links and it seems a massive coincidence that it happened 3 days after the site update, but who knows!

Thanks for the article, the old site has been restored but the rankings have not come back after 3 days, would you have expected them to be back now?

Hello, We launched and updated version of our site, mainly design changes and some functionality. 3 days after the launch we vanished from the rankings, previous page one results were now out of the top 100. We have identified some of the issues with the new site and chose to restore the old well ranking site.

My question is how long might it take for the ranking to come back, if at all?

The drop happened on the third day and the site was restored on the third day. We are now on day 6. Using GWT with have used fetch as Google and resubmitted the site map.

Any help would be gladly received.

Thanks

James

Hi

I was always told that you only want a .co.uk or a .com is this still true?

I am setting up an ecommerce site and the ideal .co.uk is gone!

Am I better to have a longer ulr with maybe a hifen or a uk in it or is it ok to have a .biz or a .net these days?

You help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

James