New site, new hosts - search rankings now worse?

[Dangleman]

Morning web experts

I've recently completely re-done my website (link in sig below), part of which involved changing the hosting company.

New site went properly live over the weekend just gone, but I'm concerned that search results are worse than they were before.

My new site is flash but has an html splash page, an html mirror site and an iphone/ mobile specific version (also html).

My 'old' site was entirely flash based, and part of my reasons for upgrading to my new set up was to perform better in google etc.

Is it normal when changing hosting company to be 'set back' for a bit in search results? A quick example - searching for "Manchester editorial photographer" used to result in me appearing top 3, page 1 of google - with my new site I'm currenlty page 2 now. This is just one example.

Anyone experienced similar negative blips when changing your website host? Will it recover?

 

[mattyh]

If you've changed all of the content of the site, of course the rankings will have changed It may just be temorary while Google re indexes all the content and decides your actual position in the rankings... Time will tell I'm sure.

If the site is less well ranked than the previous, you can't expect an improvement. I wouldn't necessarliy say it was the hosts fault (although location of the servers can have a small effect on ranking)

 

[Dangleman]

If you've changed all of the content of the site, of course the rankings will have changed It may just be temorary while Google re indexes all the content and decides your actual position in the rankings... Time will tell I'm sure.

If the site is less well ranked than the previous, you can't expect an improvement. I wouldn't necessarliy say it was the hosts fault (although location of the servers can have a small effect on ranking)

Thanks Matt

I guess the content has changed, to a degree. Was never content heavy before though, and still isn't now. All the major phrases and 'keywords' that were in the meta data on my old site are basically the same now though, plus I have the added bonus if the html pages as described above, so I was expecting better search results from the off to be honest!

Is it a case of it crawling slowly back up the rankings?

 

[mattyh]

The Google algorithms will probably get you back up quite quickly IF the content is more SEO'd d than before for the search terms you're using, so overall I would expect you to end up higher than you were before...

Are the keywords you're searching for in the description / H1 tags for the site too? That will help rankings more as well.

 

[2blue4u]

It could take up to six months to recover your previous google presence. If the new site has been built to be more SEO savvy then you should get a decent ranking much sooner than this.

 

[KIPAX]

was it a flash website before?

there is no text in the body of your actual site for the search engnes to colect.

 

[Dangleman]

The Google algorithms will probably get you back up quite quickly IF the content is more SEO'd d than before for the search terms you're using, so overall I would expect you to end up higher than you were before...

Are the keywords you're searching for in the description / H1 tags for the site too? That will help rankings more as well.

It could take up to six months to recover your previous google presence. If the new site has been built to be more SEO savvy then you should get a decent ranking much sooner than this.

I've put quite a lot of work in for my new site this time around on the seo side of things, so I will be massivley dissapointed (and confused) if it ranks worse than my old site.
With my old site - I'm amazed it ranked as well as it did given it was entirely flash based, and was basically riding on my title and meta description fields.

When you say 'quickly' how long are we talking do you think - days, weeks, months?