Hi,

We moved our website from one hosting company to another. In the process, our rankings tanked. MSN, dumped us out. Yahoo and Google have lost site of our website.

I think it is from the 404 errors created by the old frame based website host. How would I get those dead pages out of the top three search engines? How long does it take for them to do it themselves and reindex us?

Twodates

Ouch! remind me not to change hosts anytime soon......

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Here are the links for Google, Yahoo, and MSN. In my experience, pages have been removed within a few days.

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I was thinking of doing this when I changed hosts, too, which created new and different urls. However, I believe I read that if you request pages to be dropped from Google you are risking having your entire site "in the sandbox" again for a time period. It's not termed in those exact words but that was the gist. Read those links Resale gave you, it might explain it in there.

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Why wouldn't you 301 redirect the old to the new?

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Changing hosts will not cause you to lose rankings, changing domains will - if you switch to a new provider that does not allow the same filenaming conventions as the old provider for instance old site is .asp and new site is .php you simply use mod rewrite to 301 redirect only the old urls to the new ones OR all the old ones to the new homepage.

You should not have any ill effects due to this.

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