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Switched from Hostgator to WPX

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James Campbell
(@aldesylcen)
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I've lost the vast majority of my rankings after switching hosts from Hostgator to Wpx. After migrating, everything seemed to be going fine until a week later when I noticed that a lot of my pages (all kinds like list pages, info pages, and affiliate pages) have all of a sudden lost huge rankings. Some pages have been pushed into the 2nd-3rd Google page for their keywords while others have been pushed down 6-9 spots. Every day that goes by I lose more and more rankings. I'm kind of at a breaking point and considering simply switching my nameservers back to Hostgator. Wpx says there's nothing they can see on their end and based on Google webmaster tools I'm not seeing anything either. No crawl errors or penalties. It's been 4 days since this started and not sure if I should wait a bit more or just switch back to my old host. Has anyone experienced something similar?

 
Posted : 07/12/2021 3:17 am
TrafficdeveloperSEO1
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Re-save your permalinks if you are on WordPress, check .htaccess. WPX needs to force HTTPS to redirect visitors to HTTPS, you have to add the ReWrite rule inside .htaccess even though you have SSL on, some visitors still might be experiencing HTTP over HTTPS, it's not that WPX is faulty here but it's just the way their structure works.
There are a couple of changes that happen when you change hosts, IP changes, SSL changes, crawlers start the pong from HTTP to check redirection path, and a final handshake on HTTPS but that's not the case possibly on your side.
I have the .htaccess rule but can't share it right now, I can do that later, however you can also ask WPX support.
I am speaking on this from my first-hand experience with multiple hosts I worked over the year and recently moved 10 websites to WPX
 
Posted : 07/12/2021 3:19 am
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