Thanks all for Inputs

I searched Google and found this note from Google which may happen post server migration

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6033412?hl=en&ref_topic=6033383

A note about Googlebot’s crawl rate

It’s normal to see a temporary drop in Googlebot’s crawl rate immediately after the launch, followed by a steady increase over the next few weeks, potentially to rates that may be higher than from before the move.

This fluctuation occurs because we determine crawl rate for a site based on many signals, and these signals change when your hosting changes. As long as Googlebot does not encounter any serious problems or slowdowns when accessing your new serving infrastructure, it will try to crawl your site as fast as necessary and possible.

Add on Thompson Paul - Appreciate - yes its a good suggestion, will see to include sitemap

@ Cyrus

Certain pages

Earlier it was less than 4 hrs - but now its taking around 24 hrs - basis the data been updated in Search engine result just found today - i thought it was not getting updated at all

Fetch & render - no issues, Its submitting. No errors in GWT

Tested speed test - though no noticeable improvement in loading time - but no unnessary page size or load time been increased too

I was wondering - can it be a temporary phenomena - where crawl speed is slow and later on will come back to normal. Its less than 72 hrs when server been migrated

Google Search Console Crawl Stats is last updated for 16th June - so unable to figure it out from there. No errors in webmaster

@Anirban

Thanks, no errors in GWT Tools. Loading time - could not observe a change. As per Gtmetrics - tested - is well within limits. Pages with dynamic content are not getting updated in Search Engine - which earlier was happening on immediate basis

Hello,

I have just performed doing server migration 2 days back

All's well with traffic moved to new servers

But somehow - it seems that w.r.t previous host that on submitting a new article - it was getting indexed in minutes. Now even after submitting page for indexing - its taking bit of time in coming to Search Engines and some pages wherein content is daily updated - despite submitting for indexing - changes are not getting reflected

Site name is - http://www.mycarhelpline.com

Have checked in robots, meta tags, url structure - all remains well intact. No unknown errors reports through Google webmaster

Could someone advise - is it normal - due to name server and ip address change and expect to correct it automatically or am i missing something

Kindly advise in . Thanks

Very true. Thanks for sharing thoughts on it !!

Wondering, is it worth to remove date from articles from seo perspective. Am sure, Google search algorithm would like demote a post written a year back, as against an article on the same post (unless a year old post has very strong Authoritative links)

May be it can turn out a bad user experience of removing dates, but if can hide date using Javascripts so as to show it as image to user and hide it from search engines, is it a good idea !!

Makes much sense. Thanks !!

Hi - I have a country specific domain (www.updater.in), used it for writing blog articles

Now when i go to site settings in Webmaster - the Geo target by default is coming for India, and no option of changing geographic target.

Is there any way to let Search Engines know (despite .in domain) that site Geo Location is not country specific, but is meant for users from all across !!

It will scan and list you all results, like 301 redirect, 200, 404 errors, 403 errors. However, screaming frog can spider upto 500 urls in there free product

If you have more, suggest to go with Xenu Link Sleuth. Download it, get your site crawled and get all pages including server error 404 to unlimited pages.

See, if you going to change domain name and aptly make correct 301 redirect to corresponding pages (following the same url pattern) of new site with same **content, title and description - **then you are home.

Adding to what Mr. Robert said - you can also check on url hierarchy through Xenu Link Sleuth or Screaming frog seo spider of your old domain and new site (post migration). Compare the link structure. If everything goes on well - you may experience 301 redirect working upto 99% and can almost see your similar rankings with new domain

Hi Gregory,
Its not a backslash (), rather a forward slash (/) you are referring to

The forward slash indicates that the url is ended. This tells the search engine: the request stops here.

Search Engines as correctly said by Chris does not differentiate between url with forward slash or without it - both are same. However, its advisable to have url ended with with forward slash to speed up the loading. To validate this - refer this excellent article - http://webdesign.about.com/od/beginningtutorials/f/why-urls-end-in-slash.htm

See, if you going to change domain name and aptly make correct 301 redirect to corresponding pages (following the same url pattern) of new site with same **content, title and description - **then you are home.

Adding to what Mr. Robert said - you can also check on url hierarchy through Xenu Link Sleuth or Screaming frog seo spider of your old domain and new site (post migration). Compare the link structure. If everything goes on well - you may experience 301 redirect working upto 99% and can almost see your similar rankings with new domain

It will scan and list you all results, like 301 redirect, 200, 404 errors, 403 errors. However, screaming frog can spider upto 500 urls in there free product

If you have more, suggest to go with Xenu Link Sleuth. Download it, get your site crawled and get all pages including server error 404 to unlimited pages.