I built a site that is hosted by godaddy, and I registered it with
Google at the time of creation. A few months later, Goddaddy discovered
that the IP address where they originally had the site hosted was
incorrect??? So they changed it to the new IP address. It was a couple
of days of hassle, but I thought that was the end of it.
Problem is that ever since that time, the site has had an extremely low
ranking on Google, even when I use the company name as the search term.
(before the IP switch, the site was #1 rank when using the company
name)
About 6 weeks ago, I resubmitted the URL to Google, hoping it would
re-inforce the correct IP and move it up in the rankings. (btw, the
site is listed in the Google directory, but just comes up very low in
page rank---does fine on Yahoo, AltaVista etc.) This resubmitting has
had no measureable effect on the ranking.
So what can be done? I thought about creating a new website at a new
domain with identical content--submit that as a new site, then just
have it point to the original site at the domain registrar. Would this
help or hurt? Is there another workaround? My client is understandably
upset about this as he runs a global company.
