Can a site recover by itself after dropping google page rank for 404 errors?
- by Jeff
Recently redid a website and changed the directory / URL structure. I did some .htaccess redirects for the main landing pages - however when reviewing web master tools received 404 errors for the rest of the changed URLs and noticed that Google dropped my site from the #1 position to around the 5th page.
I corrected all the 404s by providing redirects in the .htaccess, resubmitted the site map and tested the google crawl bot.
Will my page regain its rank by itself - or am I going to have to put some time into like I originally did?